(159e) Common Refinery Distillation Design Errors Part 2: Tower Internals
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2019
2019 Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety
Kister Distillation Symposium
Kister Distillation Symposium 2019: The Glenn Shiveler Memorial Session: Distillation Troubleshooting -- the Lessons Learned
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 10:20am to 10:50am
Based on the authors refinery process troubleshooting experience, a list of a dozen common process design errors has been extracted from their seminar outline.
These errors range from the realm cause of the B.P. Texas City Raffinate Splitter Explosion, to a steam reboiler bottleneck that the authors corrected just a few weeks back in India on a Sour Water Stripper. Exactly why refiners persist in failing to identify the same errors, decade upon decade was a question posed by the mother of one of the authors.