Experimental Characterization of 3D Printed Structured Metal Packing with an Enclosed Column Wall

Riese, Julia; Reitze, Arnulf; Grünewald, Marcus

doi:10.1002/cite.202200002

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“…At the Ruhr University Bochum, replica of the Raschig Super Pak 350Y and a grid structured packing are created and 3D printed with an enclosing column wall. Reitze et al 11 examine the liquid distribution and Riese et al 12 conduct experiments for further characterization of these packings. The aforementioned publications predominantly focus on gas‐liquid contactors.…”

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Development of enhanced three‐dimensional printed packings for scale‐up of distillation columns: A successful case study

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This publication presents a general approach for the enhancement of packings regarding scalability, separation efficiency, and fluid dynamic properties using threedimensional (3D) printing. The methodology is used to develop miniaturized, scalable packings for process development, and scale-up applications. For this purpose, a 3D printable computer-aided design version of the Rombopak 9M industrial packing (RP9M-3D), which is known for its positive scalability properties, was created. An initial characterization by means of computational fluid dynamics simulations and mass transfer measurements reveals positive but also negative design properties. These findings are used to create a more advanced, miniaturized packing structure, the XW-Pak. The evolved structure is compared to the RP9M-3D. The simulation and experimental results show that the enhanced packing, which is still in the early stages of development, exhibits higher separation efficiencies with improved scalability properties at the same void fraction and surface area than the RP9M-3D.

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confidence: 99%