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Tower Doctor: X-Raying The Patient: Gamma Scanning Vapor Cross-Flow Channeling

| By Henry Z. Kister

Henry Kister shares lessons learned from troubleshooting distillation towers In 1988, the author led a team to troubleshoot a chemical tower that was revamped to achieve a small increase in capacity (up to 4%) by increasing the tray hole areas from 8.5%…