1.2.10 column overview

1.2.10 Types of columns

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Select the correct column type according to the illustration!


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1.2.10 Single column configuration

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Please assign (drag and drop) the sketched column configurations to their correct notation.

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Enrichiung column or Enricher. Sometimes also referred to as rectifier:

The low boiling compounds are enriched from the bottom to the top in both phases.
D ̇ contains mainly the low boiling compound. B ̇ is a mixture of high and low boilers.

S&E column. A column with a stripping and an enriching section.

Enricher: Low boiling compound is enriched from middle to top.
Stripper: Low boiling compound is stripped from middle to bottom. B ̇ contains mainly the high boiling compound and D ̇ mainly the low boiling compound

Dividing wall column

Stripping column or stripper:

The low boiling compounds are stripped from the top to the bottom out of both phases.
B ̇ contains mainly the high boiling compound. D ̇ is a mixture of high and low boilers.

1.2.10 just a waste of energy

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Rectification is energy demanding. The reboiler requires heating utilities and the condenser requires cooling utilities. Some of the sketched column configurations do not fulfill any separation task. Thus, they can be regarded as "just a waste of energy"!

Tick those sketched rectification columns, which do not fulfill any separation task. Pay attention! Configurations, which at first glance seem to be non-sense, might still fulfill a separtion task. The separation task is fulfilled, whenever the compositions of the outgoing streams differ from the feed composition.