Batch Distillation Pilot Plant vocational training equipment

This distillation column is completely of glass and it consists of a reboiler, of a sieve-tray column and of a condenser with reflux head and reflux valve. The distillate is collected into a glass tank after being cooled by a heat exchanger.
Training program
This unit enables to deepen the following issues:
• Distillation of different mixtures (water / ethanol, water / methanol, methanol / propanol, etc…) at atmospheric pressure, versus the variation of the following operational parameters:
• reflux ratio
• feeding composition
• Mass balance
• Energy balance
• Flooding
• Calculation of the number of theoretical trays

Technical specifications
• Framework of AISI 304 stainless steel with castors
• Distillation column of borosilicate glass, DN50, h = 600 mm, with 7 sieve trays
• Reboiler of borosilicate glass, with capacity of 5 l, provided with electric heater of 1600 W
• Condenser of borosilicate glass with reflux head
• Tank of borosilicate glass for the collection of distillate, with capacity of 1 l
• Tube-in-tube heat exchangers of AISI 304 stainless steel
• 6 digital thermometers with sheath of stainless steel
• Thyristor unit for controlling the power of the reboiler electric heater
• 2 programmable timers for the control of reflux ratio
• Variable-area flow meter of glass and stainless steel, range: 20 to 200 l/h
• Electric switchboard IP55, complying with EC standards
• Emergency button
Power supply 230 Vac 50 Hz single-phase
Supply with 
THEORETICAL – EXPERIMENTAL HANDBOOK