Trays

Koch-Glitsch is a global leader in tray technology, offering a broad range of designs for active panels, downcomer configurations, and support structures. With deep industry experience, we provide the right tray for your application and tailor configurations to optimize performance in your specific separation column.

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Koch-Glitsch has a culture of innovation that goes back over 100 years and is currently an industry leader in research and development of mass transfer technology. With continuous investment in the development of cost-effective mass transfer equipment, we provide the industry with higher efficiency, higher capacity, improved plant performance, and increased reliability. Our innovative products yield significant capital and energy savings.

Trays from Koch-Glitsch:

  • Require fewer trays to achieve product specifications
  • Minimize vessel size
  • Maximize capacity
  • Fouling-resistant designs for extended run life
  • Variety of products available for each application
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Ammonia

Ammonia production demands high-efficiency separation to maximize yield and minimize energy consumption. Koch-Glitsch delivers tailored solutions that optimize synthesis gas separation, ensuring long-term reliability and performance for the petrochemical and refining industries.

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Coker Main Fractionator

Koch-Glitsch offers industry-leading solutions for the coker main fractionator, an application crucial to the profitability of refineries. These fractionators effectively separate a heavy resid feedstock into valuable products such as naphtha, gas oil, and LPG, optimizing refinery operations and enhancing product yield.

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Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is produced from various renewable sources, such as waste oils, agricultural residues, and non-food crops. The feedstock collected undergoes various conversion processes, which transform the feedstock into hydrocarbons suitable for aviation fuel.

Koch-Glitsch provides advanced separation solutions that enhance efficiency, sustainability, and process reliability in SAF and ethanol production.

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Trays Product Families

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FLEXIPRO® valve tray

FLEXIPRO® valve trays by Koch-Glitsch encompasses advanced valve tray designs, including both fixed and floating valve types, engineered to deliver high capacity, enhanced efficiency, and a broad operating range for diverse distillation and separation applications.

FLEXITRAY® valve tray

FLEXITRAY® valve trays are versatile and cost-effective, combining high capacity and excellent efficiency with a wide operating range, making them suitable for various liquid-vapor contacting applications.

MINIVALVE® tray

MINIVALVE® trays by Koch-Glitsch features compact valve designs that enhance tray efficiency and capacity, providing uniform vapor-liquid distribution and reduced entrainment in distillation and separation processes.

PROVALVE® tray

PROVALVE® tray delivers exceptional mass transfer efficiency, enhanced liquid-vapor distribution, and reliable performance for diverse separation processes.

SUPERFLUX® tray

To ensure the appropriate technologies are applied for each SUPERFLUX® tray design, Koch-Glitsch engineers work with each client to obtain the specific characteristics of fouling that must be addressed. Features suitable for the specific application are combined into a final design to produce a tray capable of longer run times between cleaning shutdowns.

SUPERFRAC® tray

SUPERFRAC® trays by Koch-Glitsch encompasses a suite of high-performance distillation trays, including SUPERFRAC® and SUPERFRAC® XT, designed to maximize capacity and efficiency in separation processes.

THORMANN® tray

The THORMANN® tray, developed by Julius Montz GmbH (now part of Koch-Glitsch), is engineered for scrubbing processes and vacuum distillations, effectively handling minimal liquid loads with exceptionally low pressure drops and high separation efficiency.

ULTRA-FRAC® tray

ULTRA-FRAC® trays by Koch-Glitsch offers high-capacity distillation trays that significantly enhance vapor and liquid handling, providing superior separation efficiency and foam suppression in various applications.

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