McStill wrote:Welcome earthlings......
Please take us with you! :laughing-rolling:
While no doubt beautiful, I have a question about the design (Dribble alert :teasing-blah: ).
It seems that in most commercial column designs, sieve, valve and bubble cap trays are "crossflow" trays — the downcomer of the above tray is diametrically opposite to the tray below. I gathered that the advantage of crossflow designs is that all downcoming liquid is forced to traverses (or "flow across") the full diameter of the tray, maximising the interaction between downcoming liquid and rising vapour. Would this presumed advantage of diametrically opposite downcomers be lost in this design? That is, by having a centralised downcomer, you are reducing the distance that downcoming liquid has to traverse on each tray before it goes down the next downcomer. Is this a disadvantage of the design?