This section is from the book "Distillation Principles And Processes", by Sydney Young. Also available from Amazon: Distillation Principles And Processes.
Nature of still-head. | Glinsky | Le Bel-Henninger | Young and Thomas | Glinsky | Le Bel-Henninger | Young and Thomas | Young and Thomas | ||||
Number of sections. | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 18 | |||||
Vertical height in cm. | 30 | 43 | 51 1 | 30 | 43 | 511 | 51 1 | 78 1 | 122 1 | '130 | 130 |
Weight of mixture distilled. | 400 | 25 | 100 | ||||||||
Final temperature. | Percentage weight of distillate. | ||||||||||
80.7° .... | } 211 | } 32.4 | 33.7 | ||||||||
81.2 .... | . . | ■ • | 0.6 | 7.2 | |||||||
83.2 .... | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 22.8 | 18.6 | 9.6 | 3.4 |
86.2 .... | 19.1 | 25.8 | 20.3 | 13.2 | 13.4 | 18.6 | 20.2 | 14.5 | 4.3 | 30 | 2.0 |
89.2 .... | 14.2 | 12.1 | 13.9 | 150 | 15.2 | 15.2 | 14.5 | 6.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
92.3 .... | 8.7 | 9.2 | 10.4 | 8.8 | 10.0 | 7.6 | 8.6 | 31 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.9 |
95.4 .... | 6.6 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 6.8 | 7.4 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.7 |
98.5 .... | 5.5 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 60 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 |
101.6 .... | 61 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 6.4 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.4 |
104.6 .... | 3.7 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.6 |
107.6 .... | 6.2 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 20.8 | 9.6 | 5.6 | 4.9 | 3.9 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
1100 .... | 7.1 | 6.0 | 8.3 | | | 9.8 | 8.5 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
110.6 .... | 100 | 10.4 | 10.5 | 7.6 | 9.3 | 8.0 | 5.5 | 6 0 | 30 | ||
Pure toluene by differ-} ence . . . . / | 11.6 | 16.5 | 17.1 | 160 | 16.3 | 27.9 | 370 | 38.3 | 42.6 | ||
100.0 | 1000 | 1000 | 100 0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |
Weight of liquid and vapour in still-head | 2.8 | 5.85 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 5.85 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 5.3 | 10.6 | 12.1 | 121 |
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