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