4:
@ Scale, For column diameters of less than approximately 3 ft [1 m}, it
is more usual to employ packed towers because of the high fabrication costs
of the small trays. For a very large column, liquid distribution problems
may arise and this fact, coupled with the weight considerations of a large
volume of packing, may lead to the choice of a plate tower. A preliminary
estimate of tower diameter may be obtained from Figure 41.
1 System Factors
Gas flow rate [hg/s] —=
9.005 0.01 0.05 04 05 1.0
1007
tof
‘Column diameter (in) =
o
Column diameter [m] —=
Parameter is gas density (Ib/f®) [kg/m]
0 100 1000 10000
Gas flow rate (ib/tr] —=
Fioure 4-1, Estimation of column diameter