What is it about?
This study, focuses on the limitations, “over straining of the furnace to provide the necessary heat” and “non-reliance on the additional re-boiler since it only acts as a heat exchanger”. An integrated distillation column with a capacity of 10,000 barrel per day was therefore designed for the concurrent production of all distillate cuts.
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Why is it important?
This study was able to design a 10,000bpd integrated distillation column that can refine bonny medium crude oil to simultaneously produce both standard atmospheric product and supposed Vacuum product all under atmospheric condition with the addition of a submerged combustion zone.
Perspectives
Although HYSYS simulation software represents true-life scenario, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tool determined both thermal and Computational Fluid Analysis (CFD) effect. It also helped to analyze any evidence of stress, strain, heat and other related engineering factors that could hinder productivity. This tool highlights the step by step impact on the distillation column and proved positive.
Dr. Emeka Emmanuel Okoro
Covenant University
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This page is a summary of: The Design of an Integrated Crude Oil Distillation Column with Submerged Combustion Technology, The Open Chemical Engineering Journal, February 2019, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1874123101912010007.
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