What You Need to Know
A plate column is equipment used in chemistry to carry out unit operations where it is necessary to transfer mass between a liquid phase and a gas phase. In other words, it is a particular gas-liquid contactor. The peculiarity of this gas-liquid contactor is that the gas comes in contact with liquid through different stages; each stage is delimited by two plates.
Steps
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Chinese Baijiu (China): Multi-stage distillation of fermented grains
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Caribbean Rum (Jamaica): Fractional distillation of molasses wash
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French Absinthe (Switzerland/France): Precise separation of botanicals