THE EFFECT OF LIQUID FLOERATE AND GAS FLOWRATE ON A PACKED ABSORPTION TOWER AND REPAIR OF EQUIPMENT

ABSTRACT The purpose of the project is to study the effect of liquid flow rate and gas flow rate on the pressure drop in a packed absorption tower and also to repair and restore the packed absorption tower to good working condition.
Trouble shooting revealed that the exit drain value was broken due to carelessness on the part of former user of the equipment.  We had to carry out glassblowing operations using borosilicate glass to construct another value.  Once this was done pressure build up within the tower was restored for absorption operation to take place. A plot of log DO/H against log a superficial gas velocity gave 2.0774 2.3037 and 1.4940 respectively for slopes at varied superficial liquid velocity.
We concluded that increase in gas flow rate lead to increase in pressure drop since the graph obtained is linear.  There was a drop in slope from lower liquid rate to higher as operation neared flooding condition.  This means that industrially more cost is alluded to pumping operation to be successful.    TABLE OF CONTENT Title Letter of transmittal Approval page Dedication Acknowledgement Abstract Table of content
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.2Objectives of the project
CHAPTER TWO 2.0Literature review 2.1Pressure drop 2.3Loading and flooding 2.4Description of tower 2.7packing characteristic  2.7.3Water pump operation 2.8Design procedure of tower 2.8.2Selection of solvent
CHAPTER THREE 3.0Experiment procedure 3.1Glass  blowing process and procedure 3.1.1General physical properties of glass 3.1.2General chemical properties of glass 3.2Borosilicate glass properties 3.3Construction of drain value 
CHAPRER FOUR
Data analysis Discussion
CHAPETR FIVE Conclusion Recommendation  References Appendix 1:summary of calculation Graph  11:plot of log DP/H vs log a 46 Appendix 111:cost of repairing equipment 49 Appendix 111:scale drawing of packing absorption tower.