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    The document discusses gas-liquid contacting operations used in chemical industries, focusing on distillation and absorption. It covers the common steps in designing plate columns for absorption and distillation, including determining the number of theoretical plates, column diameter, and plate hydraulic design. The document also discusses the differences between plate columns and packed columns.

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    The document discusses gas-liquid contacting operations used in chemical industries, focusing on distillation and absorption. It covers the common steps in designing plate columns for absorption and distillation, including determining the number of theoretical plates, column diameter, and plate hydraulic design. The document also discusses the differences between plate columns and packed columns.

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    The document discusses gas-liquid contacting operations used in chemical industries, focusing on distillation and absorption. It covers the common steps in designing plate columns for absorption and distillation, including determining the number of theoretical plates, column diameter, and plate hydraulic design. The document also discusses the differences between plate columns and packed columns.

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    The document discusses gas-liquid contacting operations used in chemical industries, focusing on distillation and absorption. It covers the common steps in designing plate columns for absorption and distillation, including determining the number of theoretical plates, column diameter, and plate hydraulic design. The document also discusses the differences between plate columns and packed columns.

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    Introduction
    • The typical gas-liquid contacting operations include distillation, absorption, stripping, leaching and humidification.
    Distillation and absorption are two most widely used mass transfer processes in chemical industries. Design of
    plate column for absorption and distillation involves many common steps of calculation such as determination of
    number of theoretical plates, column diameter, plate hydraulic design, etc.In absorption process, a soluble
    component is absorbed in a liquid (called solvent) from a gaseous mixture. The gas and liquid streams leaving the
    tray are in equilibrium under the ideal condition. The separation in distillation is based on the relative volatility of
    the components. Additional vapor phase is generated by the vaporization of more volatile components (called
    stripping) and by condensation of relatively less volatile components(called absorption) adds to the liquid phase.
    Selection of column type: Plate or Packed: Packed towers (columns) are also used as the contacting devices for gas
    absorption, liquid-liquid extraction and distillation. The gaseous mixture is allowed to contact continuously with
    the liquid counter-currently in a packed column. The liquid flows downward over the packing surface, and the
    gaseous mixture flows upward through the space in the packing. The performance of the column strongly
    depends on the arrangement of the packings to provide good liquid and gas contact throughout the packed bed.
    The solute gas is absorbed by the fresh solvent (liquid) entering at the top of the tower where the lean gas leaves
    system. The liquid enriched with absorbed solute gas, leaves the column bottom through the exit port. In a plate
    tower, the liquid and gas are contacted in stage-wise manner on the trays; while gas-liquid contact is continuous
    in a packed column. There are always some uncertainly to maintain good liquid distribution in a packed tower. For
    this reason, it is difficult to accurately estimate the packed tower efficiency. The course content is limited to
    design of plate column only and some typical criterions for the selection of column type are discussed below.

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