Technology:
Toyo Engineering,
one of Japan’s leading engineering companies, developed an energy-saving
distillation tower for a petroleum refinery plant. The new distillation tower
can reduce energy consumption like electricity and steam by up to 75% as
compared with the existing distillation tower. Toyo developed the SUPERHIDIC distillation tower in alliance with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). The research team adopted a design that realizes
internal heat exchange with small amount of electricity without using special
equipment.
A distillation tower is used to separate substances with different
boiling points in a composite through the repetition of evaporation and
coagulation, and it consumes lots of energy like electricity and steam. For
example, the distillation process consumes about 40% of all energy required in
the chemical manufacturing industry. It is critical to decrease the energy
consumption of a distillation tower. Toyo plans to get orders for demonstration
in 2013 to commercialize the net technology as soon as possible.
Trademark registration of SUPERHIDIC is under way.
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