Cover Chem. Eng. Technol. 4/2013

CFD‐assisted Packing Optimization The glass packing QVF DURAPACK® was developed to use the advantages of structured mass transfer packings, especially when handling corrosive media. To match up with the latest developments for sheet metal packings, further optimization for liquid‐liquid separation processes was performed for the QVF DURAPACK®. The complex geometry of structured packings and the wall thickness of glass sheets complicate the numerical investigations. The modeling strategy is presented, and the limitations of CFD tools are given. The experimental and numerical results show similar trends as known for perforated metal structures. The extraction efficiency of the packing prototype could also be reproduced with the column design tool LLECMOD. DOI: 10.1002/ceat.201200531 CFD‐assisted Characterization and Optimization of the Structured Mass Transfer Packing QVF DURAPACK® C. Dreiser, G. Gneist, H.‐J. Bart* Chem. Eng. Technol. 2013 , 36 (4), 545–551     

Cover Chem. Eng. Technol. 10/2011

Terephthalic acid recovered from alkali reduction wastewater A process for the recovery and purification of terephthalic acid (TA) from alkali reduction wastewater was developed. The process consisted of two steps: TA was first precipitated from alkali reduction wastewater by acidification. After that, the crude TA produced was dissolved into dimethylacetylamide and purified by cooling crystallization. The results indicated that acidification could reduce the chemical oxygen demand of the wastewater by 83 %, and the purity of TA by crystallization could reach 99.9 %. Furthermore, at an average cooling rate of 1.18 K min^–1, the particle size of TA was uniform and the average size was about 100 µm. The isolated terephthalic acid can be recycled as raw material for polyethylene terephthalate production. S.‐C. Wu, Z.‐M. Cheng*, S.‐D. Wang, X.‐L. Shan Chem. Eng. Technol. 2011 , 34 (10), 1614–1618. DOI: 10.1002/ceat.201100096