Packed Towers in Processing and Environmental Technology by Reinhard Billet, translated by James W. FuUarton

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Types of packing
3. Experimental determination of packing performance
4. Fluid dynamics in countercurrent packed columns
5. Mass transfer in countercurrent packed columns
6. End effects in packed columns
7. Liquid distribution at the inlets of packed columns
8. Scale-up for end effects and phase distribution
9. Phase redistribution in columns
10. Design of distributors
11. Overall evaluation of packing
12. Retrofitting columns by the installation of packing
13. Applications for packing in liquid-liquid systems
14. Examples for the design of packed columns
15. Recent trends in packing technology