Tray Column Design
Tray Column Design
Tray Column Design
By:
Brian Lee (13007006)
Laras Wuri Dianningrum (13007075)
How to succeed
• The success of making a tray column needs a good coordination
between the process engineer and tray and column supplier.
• There must be something that must be written in Specification Sheet.
They are:
– column diameter
– tray spacing
– number of trays
– number of passes
– type of downcomers
– weir heights
– provision of downcomer backups
– tray pressure drops
– design of bottom seal pan
– column bottom arrangement
– nozzle location and orientation
– some downcomer additional equipment.
Selection of Tray Spacing
Tray spacing, tray passes
Spacing involves a tradeoff between column height and
column diameter: with greater tray spacing, the column
height increases while the required diameter decreases.
• The basic input for filling out the tray data sheet
comes from the results of column simulations based
on one of the widely available, proprietary software
packages, along with mass and energy balances.
Additional Design Details
• A column data sheet provides the column
vendor (which is not the tray vendor) with
data on the column shell: its height, diameter,
operating and design temperatures and
pressures ,material of construction, corrosion
allowance, nozzle details, provision of
manways, and similar details.
Nozzles
For nozzles that feed liquid
to the top tray, the preferred
arrangement is to orient the
nozzle perpendicular to the
downcomer of the top tray
(Look at Details A and B).