UDC Continuous Distillation Pilot Plant Vocational Education Equipment for School Lab Chemical Engineering
The solution having to be distilled, stored in a glass tank, is sent to the distillation column by a metering pump after crossing a pre-heating exchanger. The distillation column is completely made of glass and it consists of a reboiler, of a bubble-cap-tray column and of a condenser with reflux head and valve.
Training program
This unit enables to deepen the following issues:
- Distillation of different mixtures (water / ethanol, water / methanol, methanol / propanol, etc…) versus the variation of the following operational parameters:
- reflux ratio
- feeding flow rate
- reboiler heating power
- feeding composition
- residual pressure
- Mass balance
- Energy balance
- Flooding
- Calculation of the number of theoretical trays
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Mod. UDC
- Framework of AISI 304 stainless steel with castors
- Distillation column of borosilicate glass with 7 bubble captrays, DN50, h = 600 mm
- Reboiler of borosilicate glass, with capacity of 3 l, includingelectric heater of 1600 W
- Condenser of borosilicate glass with reflux head
- Feeding tank of borosilicate glass with capacity of 5 l
- Tank of borosilicate glass with capacity of 1 l for thecollection of distillate
- Tank of borosilicate glass with capacity of 2 l for thecollection of bottom product
- 3 tube-in-tube heat exchangers of AISI 304 stainless steel
- Metering pump with head of AISI 316 stainless steel, flowrate of 0 to 8.5 l/h
- 6 thermoresistances Pt100 with sheath of AISI 316stainless steel
- 6 electronic indicators
- Thyristor unit for controlling the power of reboiler electricheater
- 2 programmable timers for the control of reflux ratio
- Variable area flowmeter of glass and steel, with range of25 to 250 l/h (for mod. UDC, only)
- Vacuum gauge of AISI 304 stainless steel, with range of0 to -1 bar
- Vacuum circuit with trap of AISI 304 stainless steel
- Piping and valves of AISI 304 and AISI 316 stainless steel
- Switchboard IP55, complying with EC conformity mark,including plant synoptic and ELCB
- Emergency button
Supply with
THEORETICAL – EXPERIMENTAL HANDBOOK