Continuous Distillation Pilot Plant Technical Education Equipment

UDCa Continuous Distillation Pilot Plant Technical Education Equipment

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, with range of 25 to 250 l/h and 4-20 mA output signal
• Pneumatic valve of AISI 316 stainless steel for controlling the flow rate of the condenser cooling water, Cv = 0.32
• Pneumatic valve of AISI 316 stainless steel for controlling the 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 control ON-OFF signals, analog signals coming from the PID controller, real-time trend and historical trend
Supply with
THEORETICAL – EXPERIMENTAL HANDBOOK