UDCa Continuous Distillation Pilot Plant Educational Training Equipment Chemical Engineering

Description

UDCa Continuous Distillation Pilot Plant Educational Training Equipment 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
• Automatic flow and pressure control by PID controller (for mod. UDCa, only)
• Plant supervision by P.C. (for mod. UDCa, only)

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

Mod. UDCa

Besides being provided with all the Technical specifications of mod. UDC, this model also includes the following additional items:

• Oil vacuum pump with flow rate of 4 m3/h
• Variable area flowmeter of AISI 304 stainless steel, withrange of 25 to 250 l/h and 4-20 mA output signal
• Pneumatic valve of AISI 316 stainless steel for controllingthe flow rate of the condenser cooling water, Cv = 0.32
• Pneumatic valve of AISI 316 stainless steel for controllingthe residual pressure, Cv = 0.32
• 2 electropneumatic converters of 4 to 20 mA/ 0.2 to 1 bar
• Electronic residual pressure transmitter of stainless steel,range of 0 to 1000 mbar, 4-20 mA output signal
• Microprocessor digital PID controller with serial card
• Supervision software for Windows: it enables to controlON-OFF signals, analog signals coming from the PIDcontroller, real-time trend and historical trend

Supply with

THEORETICAL – EXPERIMENTAL HANDBOOK