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Design Engineering - 1

Project Subject : Packed Tower

Project Guide : Professor S. S. Amin
Students : Raval Krunal , Bhimani Achyut
Parmar Ajaysinh , Patel Yash
Introduction Of Packed Tower

Packed tower, filled with large quantities of tower

packings and tower internals, is an widely used and
important gas-liquid mass transfer equipment.it used
With the development of packed tower, it is divided
into plate tower and packed tower. Now, we will
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introduce the packed tower, which has simple
structure, high filtering performance.

The packed tower is composed of tower body,

pedestal, padding supporting part, liquid distributor,
liquid redistributor, tower packings, packing hold-
down grid, etc.
 Abstract of our project
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In this paper, a new system which absorbs the water vapor in flue gas of natural gas
fired boiler (NGFB) by desiccant solution is introduced. This system can recover the
latent heat of water vapor and improve the thermal efficiency of the NGFB
significantly. In the theoretical analysis, the packed tower which is the most
important equipment of solution circulation heat recovery system (SCHRS) can be
designed by establishing a mathematical model. Based on the recovery efficiency of
water vapor by desiccant solution absorption, the thermal efficiency analysis of
NGFB is discussed, which show that SCHRS has a good application prospect in
NGFB waste heat recovery.

Keyword of our project

An Application Analysis of Solution Circulation Heat Recovery System in Natural Gas
Fired Boiler
Working principle of packed tower
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Liquid enters from tower top and is evenly distributed onto tower
packings through liquid distributors and then flow down along the
packing surface. The gas enters from tower bottom and distributed
evenly through gas distributor device. The gas raises up against the
liquid path through void of tower packing. The gas and liquid will contact
on the packing surface for mass transfer.

The packed tower is a continuous contact type gas-liquid mass transfer

equipment, which makes the two-phase composition change
continuously along the tower height. In the normal condition, the gas
phase presents continuous phase while the liquid phase presents
dispersed phase.
When the liquid flow down along the packings, it has a tend to flow to the
tower wall, which make the tower wall liquid quantity increase rapidly.
This phenomenon is called wall flow, which may cause the nonuniform
distribution of gas and liquid. To avoid it, liquid redistributors are placed
in the middle of tower body when the packing layer is too high.
Components of packed tower
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• Tower body • Tower packing • Tower internals

Structured packing
Liquid redistributor
Through type liquid
distributor

Packing hold-down grid

Demister pads

Tower packing support grid

Random packing Gas distributor
Advantage Of Packed Tower
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Can handle strong flow fluctuations.

Relatively low pressure drop.

Capable of achieving relatively high mass-transfer efficiencies;

The height and/or type of packing can be changed to improve mass transfer without
purchasing new equipment.

Relatively low capital cost.

Relatively small space requirements.

Ability to collect PM as well as gases.

Is ideal for tackling emergency situations.

 Reaches high efficiencies with a well-structured packing.
 Disadvantage Of Packed Tower
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 Due to the high aspect ratio

 The packing is easy to form line contact during packing

 That packing can break during the set-up, or due to thermal

expansion.

 Packed columns aren’t cost effective for high liquid flow rates.

 Contact efficiencies are decreased when the liquid flow rate is

too low.
Uses
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Packed towers are used increasingly in a variety of applications in

the chemical process industries. The reasons for this are an
increase in the availability of design information, the evolution of
higher-capacity and higher-efficiency mass-transfer packings, and
improvements in distributors and support plates.
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Applications of packed tower

Packed tower is widely used in the industrial filtering: such as

pharmacy, coal mine, petroleum, chemical engineering.

• Separating.

• Filtering.

• Vacuum distillation.
• Purifying.
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Features of packed tower

 Large production capacity.

 High separating efficiency.

 Low pressure drop.

 Low liquid hold-up quantity.

 High operation flexibility.