


These limitations often require tray designers to increase the number of flow passes, increase tray spacings or utilize less-efficient counterflow tray designs when designing trays for high liquid rates. Traditional design guidelines for valve and sieve trays limit the weir loadings to 100 – 120 gpm/ft. Morehead Koch-Glitsch, LP 4900 Singleton Boulevard Dallas, TX 75212 Prepared for presentation at AIChE Spring Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana March 10-14, 2002 Copyright © Koch-Glitsch, LP March, 2002 Unpublished AIChE shall not be responsible for statements or opinions contained in papers or printed in its publications. Schmude Koch-Glitsch, LP 12221 East Sam Houston Pkwy. Resetarits Koch-Glitsch, LP 4111 East 37 th Street North Wichita, Kansas 67220 Dennis J. Abstract Designing Crossflow Trays for High Weir Loadings Michael R.
