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Column or tower?
I work primarily on the Gulf Coast, and while most of the interchangeable usage of the terms have been conversational, I have also seen both terms used formally within the same process unit, e.g., a fractionation column and a stripper tower. This lends credibility to the possibility that some...- inspbook1
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- Forum: Chemical plant design & operations
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Column or tower?
I've heard the terms tower and column used interchangeably through out my career. What, if any, difference would there be between a tower and a column?- inspbook1
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