Diagnosing flooding, weeping, maldistribution and control problems, and finding the energy and yield that a column is giving away
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Process and operations engineers responsible for distillation units; APC and control engineers supporting column control; unit supervisors
Columns rarely fail; they underperform, and the reasons are usually visible in pressure-drop, temperature-profile and reflux trends long before anyone opens the manway. Built around the Kister troubleshooting approach and FRI-based hydraulic guidance, the course teaches how to read a column from plant data, rate the internals against the current load, identify the operating limit, and then decide which of reflux, pressure, feed condition or product specification is worth changing.
Column fundamentals refresher: stages, reflux, minimum reflux, pinch · tray and packing hydraulics: flooding, weeping, entrainment, pressure drop · reading a column from plant trends and gamma scans · common malfunctions and their signatures (Kister) · rating exercise on plant data
Data reconciliation and efficiency estimation · column control: pressure, temperature-tray selection, reflux and boil-up interaction · optimisation levers and economics: reflux, pressure, feed preheat, give-away · energy savings and constraint pushing · inspection and revamp options · troubleshooting cases workshop
Kister, Distillation Troubleshooting and Distillation OperationFRI design practicesGPSA Engineering Data BookPerry's Chemical Engineers' HandbookAPI RP 554Send a short brief — plant, service of interest and what you need to achieve — and a Cerasus engineer will respond with a proposed scope and next steps.
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