Kimura Chemical Plants Co., Ltd.

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Maruzen Petrochemical Company, Limited

Kansai Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd.

Kazumasa Aso

Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Hideo Noda

Tomoaki Takada

Kensuke Iuchi

Masaru Nakaiwa

Toshinari Nakanishi

Hiroshi Matsuo

Kinpei Horiuchi

An inside regular filler layer is disposed inside a pipe where heat is exchanged between an inside and an outside of a pipe wall so as to abut an inner peripheral surface of the pipe, and an outside regular filler layer is disposed outside the pipe so as to surround the pipe and closely contact an outer peripheral surface of the pipe. The outer peripheral surface of the pipe is subjected to close contact-promoting processing in order to enhance close contacting feature between the outer peripheral surface and the outside regular filler layer. The pipe/filler unit is used for the distillation section of an internal heat exchanging type distillation column.

Pipe/filler unit, internal heat exchanging type distillation column and production method thereof

A monotube or multitube 2 is coupled to a body shell 1 via tube plates 3a and 3b at both ends, so that a tube interior 4 and a tube exterior 5 of the monotube or multitube 2 are isolated from each other. A difference is made in operating pressure between the tube interior 4 and the tube exterior 5, so that one of the tube interior 4 and the tube exterior 5 is used as a lower-pressure column and the other is used as a higher-pressure column. A wall of the tube is used as a heat transfer surface, so that heat is transferred from the higher pressure side (higher temperature side) to the lower pressure side (lower temperature side). Monotubes or multitubes 2 having different diameters are connected to each other via a reducer 20, so that a monotube or multitube 2 whose diameters are varied stepwise is disposed between the tube plates 3a and 3b at the upper and lower ends, thereby increasing the column cross-sectional area as moving from the top to the bottom of the column in the enriching section (tube interior) 4, and decreasing the column cross-sectional area as moving from the top to the bottom of the column in the stripping section (tube exterior) 5.

Heat integrated distillation column

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Kawanishi, Japan

Kazumasa Aso