WO2004047941A2 - Distillation system - Google Patents
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- WO2004047941A2 WO2004047941A2 PCT/US2003/029108 US0329108W WO2004047941A2 WO 2004047941 A2 WO2004047941 A2 WO 2004047941A2 US 0329108 W US0329108 W US 0329108W WO 2004047941 A2 WO2004047941 A2 WO 2004047941A2
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
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- B01D3/00—Distillation or related exchange processes in which liquids are contacted with gaseous media, e.g. stripping
- B01D3/009—Distillation or related exchange processes in which liquids are contacted with gaseous media, e.g. stripping in combination with chemical reactions
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- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
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- B01D3/00—Distillation or related exchange processes in which liquids are contacted with gaseous media, e.g. stripping
- B01D3/14—Fractional distillation or use of a fractionation or rectification column
- B01D3/16—Fractionating columns in which vapour bubbles through liquid
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- B01D3/14—Fractional distillation or use of a fractionation or rectification column
- B01D3/16—Fractionating columns in which vapour bubbles through liquid
- B01D3/22—Fractionating columns in which vapour bubbles through liquid with horizontal sieve plates or grids; Construction of sieve plates or grids
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- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
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- B01D3/14—Fractional distillation or use of a fractionation or rectification column
- B01D3/32—Other features of fractionating columns ; Constructional details of fractionating columns not provided for in groups B01D3/16 - B01D3/30
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- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01J—CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS
- B01J19/00—Chemical, physical or physico-chemical processes in general; Their relevant apparatus
- B01J19/32—Packing elements in the form of grids or built-up elements for forming a unit or module inside the apparatus for mass or heat transfer
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- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
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- B01J2219/00—Chemical, physical or physico-chemical processes in general; Their relevant apparatus
- B01J2219/32—Details relating to packing elements in the form of grids or built-up elements for forming a unit of module inside the apparatus for mass or heat transfer
- B01J2219/324—Composition or microstructure of the elements
- B01J2219/32466—Composition or microstructure of the elements comprising catalytically active material
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
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- B01J2219/00—Chemical, physical or physico-chemical processes in general; Their relevant apparatus
- B01J2219/32—Details relating to packing elements in the form of grids or built-up elements for forming a unit of module inside the apparatus for mass or heat transfer
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- Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10S203/00—Distillation: processes, separatory
- Y10S203/06—Reactor-distillation
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- the present invention relates to a system for concurrently carrying out distillation or chemical reactions and separating the reactants and products by fractional distillation.
- the commercial catalytic structure described therein comprises a cloth belt with a plurality of pockets spaced along the belt and containing particulate catalyst material.
- the cloth belt with catalyst filled pockets is wound into a helix about a spacing material such as knitted stainless steel wire mesh, and these "bales" loaded into a distillation column.
- U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,302,356, 4,443,559 and 4,250,052 disclose a variety of catalyst structures for this use.
- the present invention is related to these structures and catalytic distillation, but it is also related to distillation in general. It is an advantage of the present invention that greater tower efficiency may be obtained for conventional distillation trays by use of the present system. No art is known to suggest the present invention and in fact conventional knowledge would suggest the present invention would be counterproductive. The unexpected benefit of the present invention will be obvious from the disclosures herein.
- a packing comprising a porous container containing a particulate material intimately associated with a resilient component, said resilient component being comprised of at least 50 volume % open space, preferably at least 70 volume % and positioned on trays provides height equivalent to theoretical plates (HETP) of less than said trays without said packing.
- the packing may contain a catalytic particulate material and the distillation may involve reaction and distillation of the reaction products.
- the particulate material may also be inert and the distillation of the conventional type to separate components in the distillation mixture without reaction.
- the tray may be any of the conventional trays (or modifications thereof), such as sieve trays and bubble trays.
- FIG. 1 is a graph showing improved HETP in inches for the present packed tray column compared to the same tray column without the packing.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of a partial section of a distillation with the packing in place. DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
- the present packing may fill the entire space between the trays or only so much of the area so as to obtain the benefit of the lower HETP.
- the packed trays may have lower capacity than the non packed trays.
- the limitation on the non packed trays (as used in conventional distillation) is the liquid entrainment, whereas it appears that downcomer capacity is a limitation on the capacity for the present packed trays. Hydraulic calculation indicates the throughput limitation that the downcomer backup is likely to impose on the packed trays.
- h da pressure loss for liquid flow under the downcomer baffle.
- h d pressure loss for flow through one tray.
- h L pressure loss for the two-phase flow through packing. In this relationship, head can be expressed as clear liquid or as equivalent water, the value of h L is obtained from overall tray pressure drop measurements.
- the particulate material may be employed by enclosing it in a porous container such as cloth, screen wire or polymeric mesh.
- the material used to make the container must be inert to the reactants and conditions in the distillation or reaction/distillation system.
- the cloth may be any material which meets this requirement such as cotton, fiber glass, polyester, nylon and the like.
- the screen wire may be aluminum, steel, stainless steel and the like.
- the polymer mesh may be nylon, teflon or the like.
- the mesh or threads per inch of the material used to make the container is such that the particulate material is retained therein and will not pass through the openings. Particles of about 0.15 mm size or powders may be used and particles up to about 1/4 inch diameter may be employed in the containers.
- the container employed to hold the catalyst particles may have any configuration, such as the pockets disclosed in the commonly assigned patents above or the container may be a single cylinder, sphere, doughnut, cube, tube orthe like.
- Each container containing a solid particulate material comprises a particulate component.
- Each particulate component is intimately associated with a spacing component which is comprised of at least 70 volume % open space up to about 95 volume % open space.
- This component may be rigid or resilient or a combination thereof.
- the combination of catalyst component and spacing component form the catalytic distillation structure.
- One suitable such material is open mesh knitted stainless wire, known generally as demister wire or an expanded aluminum.
- Other resilient components may be similar open mesh knitted polymeric filaments of nylon, teflon and the like. It is only necessary that the spacing component intimately associated with the catalyst component will act to space the various catalyst components away from one another as described above.
- the spacing component provides in effect a matrix of substantially open space in which the catalyst components are randomly but substantially evenly distributed.
- a rigid frame comprised of at least two substantially vertical duplicate grids, a plurality of substantially horizontal rigid members spacing and holding the grids apart and a plurality of substantially horizontal fluid permeable, preferably wire mesh, tubes mounted to said grids to form a plurality of fluid pathways among said tubes and preferably at least a portion of said wire mesh tubes contain a particulate material.
- the container may cloth or other porous material which is inert in the environment of use. Cotton or linen is useful: but fiber glass cloth or "Teflon" cloth is preferred as is wire mesh.
- the particulate material may be powder, but is generally larger, e.g. from 0.25 to 1 mm with larger particles up to 1/4" also being used.
- the packing surface efficiency is high. Importantly, the liquid appears to flow through the cloth wall (it is forced to do so) which may provide better penetration of catalyst particles than would be obtained in conventional counterflow.
- a partial column 10 is shown with sieve trays 12 and downcomers 14. Between each tray the packing 16, comprising the particle containers 20 and demister wire 18. The packing 16 is arranged under the downcomer to the tray but leaving the downcomer from the tray on which it sits to remain open. In this embodiment the last few inches of space is filled with demister wire.
- the data for Fig. 1 was obtained using a column having 6 sieve trays spaced at 18 inches at 24 psia of the separation of a cyclohexane/n-heptane mixture under total reflux.
- the packing is formed by placing multiple link or continuous tube shaped structures on top of a wire mesh screen, such as demister wire.
- the tube comprises flexible, semi-rigid wire mesh tubular element filled with a particulate catalytic material the tube shaped structure having a fastener every 1-12 inches in length to form a multiple link looking like a chain of screen wire sausages.
- the packing is that described in U.S.
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CA2506760A CA2506760C (en) | 2002-11-20 | 2003-09-16 | Distillation system |
MXPA05005251A MXPA05005251A (en) | 2002-11-20 | 2003-09-16 | Distillation system. |
JP2004555296A JP5020473B2 (en) | 2002-11-20 | 2003-09-16 | Distillation system |
KR1020057008963A KR101143074B1 (en) | 2002-11-20 | 2003-09-16 | Distillation system |
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