Educational Chemical Engineering Pilot Plants
Continuous Batch Extractive Distillation Educational Pilot Plant
Item Number : LPK-SFZL
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- Operation Modes
- Continuous distillation, batch distillation, extractive distillation
- Control System
- 15.6-inch integrated touchscreen terminal with real-time data storage and processing
- Reflux Ratio Control
- Automatic split-type control, adjustable ratio range: 1–99
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Introduction
The Multi-Functional Continuous and Batch Special Distillation Educational Unit Operations Pilot Plant is an advanced, industrial-representative laboratory system designed for higher education institutions. Engineered to demonstrate complex mass transfer and separation processes, this pilot plant allows students to gain hands-on experience with conventional distillation, extractive distillation, continuous feed operations, and batch processing. By bridging theoretical principles with practical engineering applications, it serves as an essential teaching tool for modern engineering laboratories.
To accommodate varying laboratory spaces, academic focus areas, and syllabus requirements, this pilot plant features a modular design. Both the hardware configurations and the software control interfaces can be customized to align precisely with your department's specific teaching and research objectives.
Key Features and Educational Benefits
- Versatile Process Configurations: Supports multiple operating modes including continuous distillation, batch distillation, and extractive distillation, allowing instructors to demonstrate diverse separation strategies on a single platform.
- Process Visualization: Utilizing high-borosilicate glass columns and vessels, the plant provides clear visibility of hydrodynamic phenomena such as column loading, flooding, weeping, and vapor-liquid contact, enhancing qualitative understanding of column hydraulics.
- Precision Reflux and Heating Control: Features an automated reflux ratio controller with a highly adjustable range (1–99) alongside magnetic stirring and precise heating at the column bottoms, enabling rigorous quantitative analysis of separation efficiency under varying thermal loads.
- Intelligent Data Acquisition: Equipped with an integrated 15.6-inch touchscreen terminal that manages heating power, pump rates, and system parameters while supporting real-time data logging, storage, and export for post-experiment calculations.
- Safe and Robust Engineering: Constructed with a durable, chemical-resistant aluminum alloy frame and fitted with industrial casters for mobility. Precision peristaltic pumps ensure stable, controlled liquid feeding, while secure glass feed and product receivers guarantee safe containment of process fluids.
Detail & Parts
Technical Specifications
| Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
| Operation Modes | Continuous distillation, batch distillation, extractive distillation |
| Column Construction | High-precision, transparent high-borosilicate glass columns |
| Control System | 15.6-inch integrated touchscreen terminal with real-time data storage and processing |
| Reflux Ratio Control | Automatic split-type control, adjustable ratio range: 1–99 |
| Thermal & Mixing Control | Reboiler vessels equipped with adjustable magnetic stirring and heating mantles |
| Feed & Product Management | Precision peristaltic pumps for steady liquid feed; graduated glass feed and product receivers |
| Pressure Monitoring | Visual U-tube differential pressure gauge for column pressure drop evaluation |
| Structure & Mobility | Corrosion-resistant aluminum alloy frame with adjustable, heavy-duty casters |
| Overall Dimensions | ≤ 2200 mm × 580 mm × 3200 mm (Length × Width × Height) |
Note: The hardware layout, column specifications, and software control capabilities of this pilot plant can be customized to meet specific laboratory space limits and educational requirements.
Curriculum Integration and Academic Alignment
This pilot plant is specifically designed to support undergraduate and graduate laboratory coursework in Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, and Food Engineering. By performing physical experiments on this pilot-scale unit, students can directly validate the mathematical models and design methodologies presented in standard academic curricula.
The experimental modules of this unit correlate directly with the core unit operations and separation process chapters found in widely adopted engineering textbooks:
| Target Curricula & Classic Textbooks | Associated Unit Operations & Theoretical Concepts | Educational Laboratory Modules |
|---|---|---|
| Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering | Distillation, McCabe-Thiele method, reflux ratio, column efficiency, plate and packed column hydraulics, batch distillation calculations. | Determination of overall column efficiency, McCabe-Thiele construction validation, and study of reflux ratio influence on distillate purity. |
| Transport Processes and Unit Operations | Vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE), mass transfer in separation processes, continuous distillation of binary mixtures, extractive distillation fundamentals. | Binary mixture separation, continuous steady-state distillation run, and evaluation of mass transfer coefficients. |
| Chemical Engineering Design | Column sizing, reboiler and condenser heat duties, process instrumentation, control loops, and pilot-scale system safety. | Mass and energy balance calculations, process control optimization via touchscreen interface, and hydraulic limit identification (flooding/weeping). |
About LABPARK
LABPARK is a dedicated manufacturer of educational equipment with over 20 years of experience serving the global higher education sector. We focus on delivering high-quality, practical training solutions across six key academic disciplines: Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biology, Food Engineering, Pharmaceutical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.
Driven by continuous technological development, LABPARK holds 209 technical patents and has successfully collaborated with more than 289 universities and colleges worldwide to build modern, curriculum-aligned engineering laboratories. Our advanced manufacturing and R&D base spans 49,000 square meters, ensuring that all pilot plants are engineered, tested, and calibrated to meet rigorous international educational and safety standards.
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