Comparative evaluation of effectiveness indexes of column packings in benzol absorbers

Abstract

Coke-oven gas is produced during coking of charge coal in a coking chamber and it constitutes a mix of different substances. A composition of different components in the gas depends on a composition of the coal charge and conditions of the coking. At a recovery plant, aromatic hydrocarbons are retrieved from the coking gas by absorption oil in packed absorbers. Mass-transfer apparatus demand the equability of the phase distribution. Hydrodynamic conditions, appearing inside contacting apparatus, determinate the effectiveness of the mass-transfer, which means that unbiased evaluation of any given mass-transfer apparatus can be made while simultaneous considering its hydrodynamic and mass-transfer indicators. The different types of column packing have been investigated in this study. The calculations of benzol absorbers have been performed basing on the initial data using the standard methodologies for the recovery plant of JSC EVRAZ NTMK coke and by-product enterprise. For comparison of the results obtained, the complex indexes of effectiveness, that simultaneously take into account the mass-transfer rate, the device capacity, the features of packings and energy cost, have been used. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.