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Inside a Mass Exchange Column: Visualizing Vapor–Liquid Interaction in Distillation
A look inside our glass distillation column: vapor rising through a redistributor cap and meeting liquid downflow from the packing above.
Sep 291 min read
The Effect of Learned Blindness or Mass Transfer Basics
Distillation works because vapor and liquid on each tray have slightly different compositions. The vapor is enriched with the more volatile component, and step by step this difference builds separation. In our recent work on butadiene purification, this overlooked principle became the key to unlocking a simple, high-impact optimization. Sometimes, the fundamentals hide the greatest opportunities.
Sep 105 min read
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