As an engineer in your firm, you are tasked with decreasing the pressure drop across a...

As an engineer in your firm, you are tasked with decreasing the pressure drop across a packed column. Would you increase or decrease the packing size with all the operating variables held constant? Justify.

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So,

To Increase the pressure drop we will decrease the packing size and to minimise the pressure drop we will increase the packing size in the packed bed column.

Smaller the packing - - - - > more the pressure drop.

Larger the packing - - - - > less the pressure drop.

Amanda K answered 1 month ago

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