Computational Study of a Rotating Packed Bed Distillation Column

Prada, Ronald Jaimes; Martínez, Edgar Leonardo; Maciel, Maria Regina Wolf

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“…The Vigreux column surface area originated only from the spurs on the sidewalls, leaving a massive void at the central column. On the other hand, the packed columns provided the additional surface area of packings in this void [25]; therefore, providing more excellent separation [34]. Regarding the different packing types, the small helices showed the most amazing terpinen-4-ol content (95%), almost the same as mesh rings (94%).…”

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Enriching terpinen-4-ol from tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) oil using vacuum fractional distillation: Effect of column and packings on the separation

Nguyen

2021

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Two types of columns, three types of packings, and four levels of column height were considered to investigate how column and packings affected the separation in the vacuum fractional distillation process of raw tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) oil (TTO). This study discussed those effects on purity, yield, and overall discovery to select the most excellent operating conditions for enriching terpinen-4-ol. After the experiments, the essential oil was successfully separated into two fractions, in which the second one composed mostly the main TTO constituent, terpinen-4-ol. The best result was achieved by conducting the distillation on a 300-mm Hempel column filled with small Fenske helices (10 mm × 2 mm i.d.) at the system pressure of 60 mmHg. GC/MS analysis showed an almost 2.5-fold increase in the content of terpinen-4-ol, from 39.23% to 95.77% after fractionation. Meanwhile, there was 75% of terpinen-4-ol successfully recovered from its parental oil. Hence, the vacuum fraction distillation could be an effective method to enrich the terpinen-4-ol content in TTO.

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Section: Influence Of Column and Packing Types On The Fractionationmentioning

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“…It may be attributed to its low packing units per volume (Table 2), declining contact area, and separation efficiency [34].…”

Section: Influence Of Column and Packing Types On The Fractionationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enriching terpinen-4-ol from tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) oil using vacuum fractional distillation: Effect of column and packings on the separation

Nguyen

2021

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…Besides some experimental studies (Chu et al, 2013) only few approaches for prediction of the mass transfer in distillation in RPBs have been reported. Prada et al (2012) used mass transfer correlations for conventional distillation columns and transferred them to RPBs by replacing the gravitational by the centrifugal acceleration. Agarwal et al (2010) applied a similar approach to design individual case studies.…”

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An Integrated Design Method for Rotating Packed Beds for Distillation

Sudhoff

Neumann

Lutze

2014

Computer Aided Chemical Engineering

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“…This is especially true when modeling more complex processes such as distillation or reactive systems for which first‐principle models can be both difficult and tedious. For this reason, most of the modeling and simulation studies of rotating packed beds reported in the literature have opted to modify existing units (e.g. RADFRAC module in Aspen Plus) so that the special characteristics of HiGee contactors, such as the effect of the centrifugal field on mass transfer coefficients and pressure drop and the variation of flow area with radial length, can be taken into account.…”

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“…Prada et al 91 also performed a computational study using distillation of the ethanol-water system. The simulation was done in Aspen Plus V7 using the rate-based model of the RADFRAC module, with a subroutine in Fortran 11.0 to replace the correlations used by Aspen Plus to calculate the individual mass transfer coefficients with correlations previously developed in the literature for rotating packed beds.…”

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A review on process intensification in HiGee distillation

Garcia

Schaaf

Kiss

2017

J of Chemical Tech & Biotech

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15This review paper describes the state-of-the-art in the field of HiGee contactors used for gas-16 liquid mass transfer processes, with a special focus on distillation, and for heterogeneously 17 catalyzed reactions. 18Several types of rotating beds are discussed, including single-block rotating packed-bed, split-19 packing rotating bed, rotating zigzag bed, two-stage counter-current rotating packed bed, 20 blade packing rotating packed bed, rotating bed with blade packing and baffles, counter-flow 21 concentric-ring rotating bed and crossflow concentric-baffle rotating bed. 22The working principles of HiGee technology, as well as the modeling, design and control 23 aspects, and practical applications are explained and discussed. In addition, this paper 24 addresses the advantages and disadvantages with respect to mass-transfer performance, 25 pressure drop, rotor complexity and suitability to perform continuous distillation and to be 26

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Computational Study of a Rotating Packed Bed Distillation Column

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

Enriching terpinen-4-ol from tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) oil using vacuum fractional distillation: Effect of column and packings on the separation

Enriching terpinen-4-ol from tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) oil using vacuum fractional distillation: Effect of column and packings on the separation

An Integrated Design Method for Rotating Packed Beds for Distillation

A review on process intensification in HiGee distillation

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