Fractional Distillation Column Real

Fractional distillation is the most common form of separation technology used in petroleum refineries petrochemical and chemical plants natural gas processing and cryogenic air separation plants.

Fractional distillation column real. While the principle behind the process remains the same the distillation is carried out on a larger scale. Fractional distillation differs from simple distillation because the fractionating column naturally separates compounds based on their boiling points. It uses vacuum pressure to catalyze the distillation process reducing the boiling point of the substances in half. A fractionating column or fractional column is an essential item used in the distillation of liquid mixtures to separate the mixture into its component parts or fractions based on the differences in volatilities.

Fractionating columns are used in small scale laboratory distillations as well as large scale industrial distillations. Usually huge vertical cylindrical columns are known as distillation columns or distillation or fractionation towers are used. It is carried out by means of a fractionation column which uses different plates in which the evaporation and condensation is successively produced guaranteeing a greater concentration of the result. Fractional distillation process this type of distillation process is usually used industrially to get large amounts of products and also to get products in different different compositions called fractions principle of fractional distillation process.

If we boil a multi component mixture then those components which have relatively lower boiling points will.