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Converting a Commercial Distillation Column into a Research Tower

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July
2005

Operating a column under actual distillation conditions is important for obtaining commercially valid hydraulic data. This article describes how a column was modified to operate in either a production or a research mode to collect hydraulic and mass-transfer-efficiency data.

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