Glass lined columns for chemical plants
Optimize your chemical processing with glass-lined columns, designed to ensure maximum corrosion resistance and seamless integration into complex mass transfer applications.
Facilitates Separation and Purification Processes
The glass-lined steel columns from GMM Pfaudler are engineered to navigate the challenges of handling corrosive chemicals in the chemical, pharmaceutical, food, and energy industries. These columns are designed to support various separation and purification processes, including distillation, absorption, and evaporation. They stand out for their corrosion-resistant properties, utilizing a glass-lined steel construction that withstands harsh environments while ensuring product purity.
Integrating seamlessly into production lines, they accommodate custom-sized solutions and are optimized for continuous operations. These columns are particularly effective in the production of ultra-clean and ultra-pure chemicals, such as solvent recovery in the pharmaceutical sector and biofuel purification.
Processing capabilities are enhanced with options for jacketed or non-jacketed configurations, tailored nozzle locations, and various support mechanisms such as tantalum clad rings that meet stringent DIN 28007-2:2017-04 standards. The equipment is PLC-controlled, offering remote monitoring to ensure optimal operation and maintenance efficiency.
Available in multiple configurations, the columns can be combined with internals made from ceramic or PTFE from the Edlon product line, enhancing their adaptability to specific process requirements. GMM Pfaudler provides comprehensive engineering support, assisting with pilot testing and scale-up to ensure successful system integration.
Benefits
- Ensures corrosion resistance for longer equipment lifespan and reduced maintenance costs.
- Enables precise control and monitoring with PLC systems, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Customizable configurations support specific industrial processes, improving adaptability.
- Seamlessly integrates with existing systems, facilitating easy upgrades and scalability.
- Complies with stringent industry standards, ensuring high-quality production outcomes.
- Applications
- Corrosive chemicals,Ultra-clean chemicals,Food industry,Chemical industry,Energy sector,Ultra-pure chemicals,Mass transfer processes,Pharmaceutical industry
- End products
- Biofuels,Pharmaceutical intermediates,Specialty chemicals,Food additives,Nitric acid,High-purity water,Acetic acid,Ultra-pure solvents,Detergent precursors,Flavors and fragrances,Sulfuric acid,Hydrochloric acid
- Steps before
- Pilot Testing,Scale-Up,Engineering,Design
- Steps after
- Purification,Filtration,Drying,Distillation,Absorption,Simulation with Aspen Hysis,Pilot testing
- Input ingredients
- crude mixtures,raw materials,waste streams,hazardous chemicals,unreacted raw materials,corrosive products
- Output ingredients
- separated chemicals,purified products,valuable products,recovered raw materials,non-hazardous emissions
- Market info
- GMM Pfaudler is known for manufacturing glass-lined equipment, reactors, and engineered-to-order (ETO) solutions for the chemical, pharmaceutical, and allied industries, recognized for their innovation, quality, and global presence.
- Column Diameter
- 2,200 mm
- Column Height
- 22-metre
- Design Pressure
- 10.0 Bar,g / Full Vacuum
- Design Temperature
- -24º / +200º C
- Material of Construction
- Glass-lined steel,Alloy,Carbon Steel
- Sealing System
- PfaudlerGasket System 3000 with UF3000 compound
- Support Design
- Brackets,rings,skirts
- Internal Support Design
- Tantalum clad rings
- Column Internals
- Ceramic or PTFE internals
- Support Tray Design
- Pin support design
- Tolerances
- DIN 28007-2
- Process Simulation
- Aspen Hysis®
- Corrosion resistance
- Glass-lined
- Column configuration
- Customizable
- Support design
- Brackets/Rings/Skirts
- Jacketed sections
- Optional
- Column diameter
- Custom,e.g.,2,200 mm
- Column height
- Custom,e.g.,22 meters
- Design pressure
- 10 Bar,g / Full Vacuum
- Design temperature
- -24º to +200º C
- Leak prevention design
- Support pin design
- Flange sealing system
- PfaudlerGasket System 3000
- Column internals
- Ceramic/PTFE
- Process adaptability
- As per client specification
- Mass transfer process
- Countercurrent flow
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Yes
- Cleanability
- Yes
- Biological compatibility
- Yes
- Abrasion resistance
- No
- Density/particle size
- Variable
- Column Type
- Distillation / Stripper / Absorber / Scrubber
- Column diameter
- 2,200 mm
- Column height
- 22 metres
- Column sections
- 3 sections
- Material
- Glass-lined steel
- Support types
- Brackets,rings,or skirts
- Jacketed option
- Yes/No
- Flange face flatness tolerance
- DIN 28007-2
- Internals support design
- Body flanges with donut rings / Pin support design
- Internals material
- Ceramic or PTFE
- Column configuration
- Customized to specific process requirements
- Nozzle location
- Customized on top/bottom dish and cylindrical sections
- Support design
- Donut rings or new support pin design for internals
- Section jacketed
- Jacketed or non-jacketed based on process
- Section insulation
- Insulated or non-insulated based on process
- Shell material
- Glass-lined steel sections
- Pin support design
- Prevents use of donut rings,reduces leak potential
- Internal components
- Customizable with PTFE or ceramic from Edlon product line
- Complete system assembly
- All ancillary equipment and piping assembled on steel modules