In distillation process, distillation trays are established as gas and liquid contacting devices. An impasse that has hindered the further improvement of these devices is the fact that little is known about the flow phenomena prevailing inside a tray for given geometry and operating conditions. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is widely applied to study hydrodynamics of sieve tray. But for F1 valve tray, which is used widely in practice, there isn’t any CFD simulation reported.
In this paper, ...