A novel dual-flow orthogonal wave tray was developed.
Hydrodynamics and mass-transfer performance of vapor–liquid flow of orthogonal wave tray column were studied by means of experiment and CFD simulation, which present potential uses in capacity expansion.
The simulation results exhibit all of the known features of the two-phase flow field and mass-transfer performance on distillation trays and are in good agreement with experimental results.
The validated CFD model was used to investigate the hydrodynamics and mass-transfer performance of OWTs with different waves.