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[ManiMS]

What is the typical column efficiency having very small diameter (less than 1 ft)?
Any related articled to substantiate...please provide your support.

Hallo!

Check out : Design of Equilibrium Stage Processes - Buford D. Smith - McGRAW-HILL. There u can find more than u need actually.

or try Handbook of Separation Techniques for chemical engineers- Schweitzer.

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[Padmakar Katre]

Dear,

The significance of diameter in any column internals mass transfer efficiencies is an outcome of the column loadings (Vap - Liq).

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[Zauberberg]

There is no such thing as "typical column efficiency", even for towers designed as identical - if we account for installation and operation factors.

By considering process design only, there should be no issues regarding column efficiency vs. column diameter - if appropriate design has been chosen in the first place.

For such a small tower, I would certainly consider packed column rather than a trayed one. There is no sufficient length in a trayed tower for the flow path to be fully developed, and the contacting efficiency will be adversely affected.

[chrisadam008]

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[fra.telli]

What is the typical column efficiency having very small diameter (less than 1 ft)?

From an industrial point of view, "very small diameter" is less than 3ft.
Or at least, note that under that measure, all sort of internals are cartridge mounted (that means higher costs due to difficulties of assembly).
Just think at problems related to:
- circunferential gas bypass if you use structurated packing
- random packing voidance/disunifirmity
- number of valves in such a small plate (and what about dimensioning and construction of the downcomers?)
- dimensioning and constructing the liquid distributor
- managing the fluidodynamic of gas/liquid (sometimes it's difficult to controll the flow in a 12" pipe, consider to add internals and a two phase fluid!)

in the end, very small diameters are used in laboratories,