Distillation Columns and Internals for New-Age Challenges

New-age challenges require industrialists to give up the conventional thought process and look at those concerns as an opportunity to innovate and engineer new solutions aligned with the present and the future. Distillation columns and internals aren’t an exception to it. With age-old distillation columns and internals, companies can do very little about resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies they encounter in pursuit of meeting contemporary demands.

As a result, companies must evolve their intellect to devise distillation columns and internals that meet modern demands, deliver competence, and maintain relevance in the market. Finepac, one of the leading distillation column manufacturers in India, has always walked with time and innovate solutions that have helped it prove its worth time and again. Accordingly, it talks about a few new-age challenges and column internal solutions aligned with them.

4 Common Present-Day Challenges

1.     Equipment-Related Challenges

With time and continual use, equipment experiences vibrations that can, in turn, lead to column components to shift over time or affect internal mechanisms within the columns. These factors can result in damage to internal structures.

2.     Foaming Problem

Expansion of liquid and its changing into gas or vapor at a very high evaporation rate and velocity can result in foaming. Although foaming isn’t as common, various factors relating to the column’s trays, such as design, condition, and positioning, can lead to foaming. Further, excessively proximal placement of trays can result in entrainment.

3.     Fouling Issue

Fouling refers to a range of problems occurring inside a column. It includes condensation resulting in droplet formation, vaporization of volatile chemicals, chemical reactions, etc.

4.     Decrease in the Internal Pressure

A reduction in the internal pressure can affect the column’s capacity to hold liquid on the tray, thus leading to liquid leakages through the perforations of the column internals. Precisely, it is termed weeping, and it can affect distillation purity, thus defeating the purpose of distillation, in some cases requiring you to rework the entire assignment.

Innovative Column Internal Solutions

Critical challenges require solutions well-equipped with the necessary technology and intelligent enough to not only combat problems but overcome them and thus help companies maintain distillation efficiency. Additionally, they would also help companies avoid concerns such as complete shutdowns, breakdowns, etc.

-       Equipment to Avoid Fouling

Since fouling represents a range of crucial concerns, distillation column manufacturers should innovate solutions that include grid packings, foul-resistant trays, and valves that augment capacity and thus contribute to overall efficiency.

-       Advanced Solutions Concerning Trays and Packings

One solution to do so includes replacing random packing and deploying high-performance packing to enhance efficiency and tower capacity. Innovative companies like Finepac leverage multi-sized components to achieve the highest levels of efficiency and retain critical factors such as capacity and pressure drop.

Finepac India – One of the Top Distillation Column Internals Manufacturers in India

Finepac India is one of the leading column internals manufacturers in India. The company has an extensive client base in India and abroad. Additionally, its capability to identify and understand new-age distillation concerns and the capabilities to innovate makes it one of the best in its line of business. For more details or to partner with Finepac, call + 91-20- 66120661, and write an email to info@finepacindia.in.