Industry separates crude oil, natural gas and chemical mixtures into pure products by means of fractionating distillation columns. This process is energy-intensive, but a new type of column structure ...

Croatia’s INA Industrija Nafte DD has added a new fractionation column at the crude distillation unit (CDU) of its 90,000-b/d Rijeka refinery along the northern part of the Adriatic Sea as part of the ...

A distillation tray is used to mix vapors and liquids together. The better the mixing, the more efficiently the tray works. Tray efficiency also depends on two other factors: how well the droplets of ...

MR. ELLIOTT'S monograph forms a useful supplement to his “Distillation Principles,” recently noticed in NATURE. The first five chapters consider the operation of the fractionating column with mixtures ...

THREE vacuum distillation apparatuses capable of distilling amounts from 5 gm. to 500 gm. have been constructed for preparative and analytical work particularly in regard to fatty acid esters. They ...