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How to detect column flooding?

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Question added by Srinivasan Venkatesan , Operation Technologist , EQUATE petro chemicals
Date Posted: 2018/03/18
SANTOSH KAMATH
by SANTOSH KAMATH , Manager Operations , ESSAR OIL

Depending on the location of feed nozzle and design product ratios we can see the following

1. Increase in pressure drop of that column section(between draw off trays generally)

2.Relative less draw temperature at that tray and  column Ti .Also lower requirement of PA at that tray to maintain temperature.

3.In multicomponent columns like atmospheric,vaccum,coker fractionater columns production or yield of that product increases, while the upper or lower tray products yield decreases, depending on feed entry location.

Shuhaib Zubair
by Shuhaib Zubair , PROCESS ENGINEER , Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO)

Flooding in column can be detect by following parameters:

1) Increase in pressure drop of coloumn

2) Loss of Temperature profile within coloumn

3)low level at bottom of coloumn since all the liquid is held by the trays

Muhammad Aftab  Ahmed
by Muhammad Aftab Ahmed , Procurement and Planning , Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited

Flooding in column can be detect by following parameters:

1) Increase in pressure drop of coloumn

2) bottom pressure of coloumn increases

3) bottom temperature of coloumn also increases

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