Low pressure drop fabric packing or fabric-like packing having a regularly arranged structure for use in mass exchange columns and a process for rectification using this packing

摘要

PCT No. PCT/EP96/02851 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 7, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 7, 1998 PCT Filed Jun. 29, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/02890 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 30, 1997Packing elements with a low pressure drop for mass transfer column internals of the internal diameter of the column and of a height of from 40 to 300 mm made of dimensionally stable layers, which have an ordered structure and are in mutual contact, of cloth material or cloth-like material with a specific surface area of from 100 to 2000 m2/m3, wherein a) the shaped layers of cloth material or cloth-like material, preferably made of metal cloth, which are in mutual contact are arranged so that they form a multiplicity of narrow flow channels, preferably virtually triangular, virtually rectangular or else virtually equilateral hexagonal flow channels, in which the angle of inclination of the serration of the individual cloth layers of the packing to the column axis is only 0 to 25 DEG , preferably 3 to 14 DEG , and b) to ensure mechanical stability of the packing elements, if necessary wires or thin rods are fixed in suitable arrangement between the cloth layers, or else the cloth layers are firmly connected at some points of contact, and processes for obtaining pure substances from substance mixtures by rectification using the novel packing elements.