Column Components

Like their pipeline counterparts, Borosilicate glass column components find universal application throughout the world’s chemical, pharmaceutical, food and drink and allied industries where the advantage of using glass as a basis for the construction of complete process systems have long been recognized:

• With almost universal resistance to corrosion, a long service life is guaranteed and maintenance is kept to a minimum.

• Their transparency permits visual monitoring of the process at all times.

• Being inert, the risk of contamination is negligible.

• Smooth surfaces allow easy cleaning and sterilization and prevent the build-up of solid on the inner walls.

In many unit operations such as reaction, extraction and absorption, the transparency factor of glass column components is a particular advantage. As an example, colour changes in reaction processes are easily monitored, droplet separation in extraction processes can be observed unhindered and constant visual monitoring of hydraulic performance in packed columns is possible.