Rigorous Dynamic Simulation of an Industrial Tray Column, Considered Liquid Flow Regime and Efficiency of Trays

A Hybrid Discrete/Continuous Dynamic Model of Trayed Tower Hydraulics

“…More recent publications provide simpler hydraulic approaches. Some do not consider separate tray and downcomer holdups (and the important phenomena that derive from them) (Staak et al, 2011), others disregard vapor phase dynamics (Mahdipoor, 2006;Mahdipoor et al, 2007) and most neglect both (Cab et al, 2002;Chang et al, 1998). Taylor (2007) provides a comprehensive review of distillation modeling, focusing almost entirely on the development of rate-based models and, surprisingly, not discussing tray dynamics.…”