Practical Distillation: Tower Auxiliary Equipment and Internals
e-Learning
About the eLearning Course
This course covers auxiliary fractionating equipment and operating fractional towers, including shutdown, cleaning, and testing. You will learn how heat balance adjustments affect product composition. Additionally, you will be introduced to several different types of columns and the basic instrumentation used to control a distillation tower. The distillation columns and related equipment shown in this program may not be the same as the columns and equipment used in your plant. However, the principles and practices presented in this program are applicable to any normal distillation process.
Target Audience
Operations personnel who require a fundamental understanding of knowledge to operate and maintain facilities. Also suitable for maintenance and technician personnel whether new to their roles or seasoned experts looking to enhance their skills.You Will Learn
Participants will learn how to:
- Identify the different types of heat exchanger designs.
- Explain how furnaces operate to provide heat input to process streams.
- Describe different reboiler and condenser configurations.
- Recall the use of feed and overhead drums
- Review the purpose and configuration of water draw trays.
- Analyze the factors that impact a tower's height, width, and tray spacing.
- Explain the impact of temperature and pressure on distillation.
- Identify the equipment and function of a tower tray.
- Compare different types of trays and the reasons they are used.
- Describe the equipment and function of packed towers.
- Recall different types of packing and the reasons they are used.
