Industry separates crude oil, natural gas and chemical mixtures into pure products by means of fractionating distillation columns. This process is energy-intensive, but a new type of column structure ...
MR. ELLIOTT'S monograph forms a useful supplement to his “Distillation Principles,” recently noticed in NATURE. The first five chapters consider the operation of the fractionating column with mixtures ...
THE performance of a fractionating column recently constructed and used in this Department prompts us to place on record its chief characteristics. The column is packed with miniature (1/16 in.) ...