Distillation Troubleshooting collects invaluable hands-on experiences acquired in dealing with distillation and absorption malfunctions, making them readily accessible for those engaged in solving today's problems and avoiding tomorrow's.

Distillation Troubleshooting covers over 1,200 case histories of problems, diagnoses, solutions, and key lessons. Coverage includes:

• Successful and unsuccessful struggles with plugging, fouling, and coking
• Histories and prevention of tray, packing, and internals damage
• Lessons taught by incidents and accidents during shutdowns, commissioning, and abnormal operation
• Troubleshooting distillation simulations to match the real world
• Making packing liquid distributors work
• Plant bottlenecks from intermediate draws, chimney trays, and feed points
• Histories of and key lessons from explosions and fires in distillation towers
• Prevention of flaws that impair reboiler and condenser performance
• Destabilization of tower control systems and how to correct it
• Discoveries from shutdown inspections
• Suppression of foam and accumulation incidents

A unique resource for improving the foremost industrial separation process, Distillation Troubleshooting transforms decades of hands-on experiences into a handy reference for those involved in the operation, design, study, improvement, and management of large-scale distillation.

Contents

1. Troubleshooting Distillation Simulations
2. Where Fractionation Goes Wrong
3. Energy Savings and Thermal Effects
4. Tower Sizing and Material Selection Affect Performance
5. Feed Entry Pitfalls in Tray Towers
6. Packed-Tower Liquid Distributors: Number 6 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
7. Vapor Maldistr5ibution in Trays and Packings
8. Tower Base Level and Reboiler Return: Number 2 on the top 10 Malfunctions
9. Chimney Tray Malfunctions: Part of Number 7 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
10. Draw-Off Malfunctions (Non-Chimney Tray) Part of Number 7 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
11. Tower Assembly Mishaps: Number 5 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
12. Difficulties During Start-Up, Shutdown, Commissioning, and Abnormal Operation: Number 4 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
13. Water-Induced Pressure Surges: Part of Number 3 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
14. Explosions, Fires, and Chemical Releases: Number 10 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
15. Undesired Reactions in Towers
16. Foaming
17. The Tower as a Filter: Part A. Causes of Plugging-Number 1 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
18. The Tower as a Filter: Part B. Location of Plugging-Number 1 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
19. Coking: Number 1 on the Top Malfunctions
20. Leaks
21. Relief and Failure
22. Tray, Packing, and Tower Damage: Part of Number 3 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
23. Reboilers That Did Not Work: Number 9 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
24. Condensers That Did Not Work
25. Misleading Measurements: Number 8 on the Top 10 Malfunctions
26. Control System Assembly Difficulties
27. Where Do Temperature and Composition Controls Go Wrong?
28. Misbehaved Pressure, Condenser, Reboiler, and Preheater Controls
29. Miscellaneous Control Problems

Index

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