Practical Column Design Guide

Dr.Nitsche has more than 40 years experience in planning chemical and oil plants. During his career he has designed and built several chemical plants. Dr.Nitsche`s extensive experience includes designing and building distillation units,storage tank farms, stirred tank reactor facilitates, air purification to reduce emissions and absorption or stripping units for various applications. Mr. Gbadamosi has over 40 years of experience working in the design of Mass and Heat Transfer Process Plants. His areas of specialization include: Design of Mass and Heat Transfer Processes Plants, Process Optimization, Feasibility Studies and Flowsheeting.

Planning of Distillation- and Absorption Columns.- Phase Equilibria - Bubble- and Dew Points - Flash Calculations - Activity Coefficients.- Fractionation of Binary Mixtures.- Calculation of Multicomponents-Fractionation Plants.- Extractive- and Aceotropic Distillation.- Discontinuous batch Distillation.- Steam Distillation.- Absorption- and Stripping Columns.- Fluiddynamic Dimensioning of Trays and Tray Efficiency.- Fluiddynamic Design of Random Packings / Structured Packings and Determination of the HTU-/HETP-Values.- Demister Design.