%0 Journal Article
%T Comparison of Various Column Packing Materials＊ Efficiency for Hydrocarbons and Aqueous Mixtures
%A Sommer
%A T.
%A Trejbal
%A J.
%A Zapletal
%A M.
%A Zbytovsky
%A J.
%J -
%D 2019
%R 10.15255/CABEQ.2018.1565
%X Saˋetak The efficiency of industrial column packings is commonly tested by standard hydrocarbon mixtures. However, a reduced efficiency value is often observed, particularly during distillation of aqueous mixtures. In this paper, distillation experiments with various binary mixtures were carried out on different column packings to evaluate relative separation efficiencies of mixtures for each packing material. Each of the binary mixtures, which comprised heptane每methylcyclohexane, ethanol每water, morpholine每water, and acetic acid每water, was distilled under atmospheric pressure and total reflux ratio on column packings that were made of PTFE, ceramic, zirconium metal, and inox steel 316. According to the results, aqueous solutions of morpholine and acetic acid generally exhibited low relative separation efficiency (in comparison with standard mixture of heptane每methylcyclohexane), ranging between 40 % and 80 %. The highest relative efficiencies were observed with packings made of steel and ceramic. These observations will be useful for the future design of distillation columns, especially for aqueous solutions. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
%K hydrocarbons
%K acetic acid
%K distillation
%K column packing
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