Koch Glitsch LP Company Profile

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Description

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Company Name

Koch-Glitsch, LP

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Website

koch-glitsch.com

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Established Date

1945

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Headquartered

Kansas, United States

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Market Position/ History

The company was established in 1945 by Fred Koch as Koch Engineering and started its own tray technologies.

In 1997, Koch Engineering acquired Glitsch International and renamed the company Koch-Glitsch.

Further, in 2019, Koch-Glitsch acquired Julius Montz GmbH. Koch-Glitsch is a subsidiary of Koch Industries and is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, USA.

The company’s offices are located in Asia, Europe, and North America.

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Sales Area

Asia, Europe, and North America

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Manufacturing Location

United States, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, United Kingdom, and other countries

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No. of Employees

Around 580 employees

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Competitors

EVAPCO Inc., API Heat Transfer Inc., The Gardner Denver Industrials Group, John Crane Inc

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Ownership Type

Private

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Contact Information

4111 East 37th Street North

Wichita, Kansas 67220

Tel: (1) 316-828-5110

Fax: (1) 316-828-7985

Product

Product Description

Random Packing

Koch-Glitsch has developed a variety of random packings to meet customer needs. Random packings are a cost-effective option to increase a tower's capacity and efficiency. With Koch-Glitsch-designed random packings, capacity increases can be achieved without sacrificing efficiency.

Koch-Glitsch has random packing in size and material – metal, plastic, or ceramic – to provide optimum performance.

Metal Random Packing

Random packings are a cost-effective option to increase a tower's capacity and efficiency. Tower packings have been used to reduce pressure drop through the column, increase the capacity compared to conventional trays at the same efficiency, and/or reduce liquid holdup in the column.

1. INTALOX ULTRA Random Packing

INTALOX ULTRA high-performance random packing can help increase the capacity of any random packing tower by up to 10% while maintaining the same efficiency compared to previous high-capacity random packings, such as IMTP random packing. With older-generation random packings, the benefits may be greater. The low-pressure drop and high capacity of this packing offers:

• Increased capacity without loss of efficiency
• Increased efficiency without loss of capacity
• Lower pressure drops which minimizes foaming
• Minimized liquid carryover and solvent losses
• Reduced reflux and energy consumption
• High mechanical strength

2. IMTP Random Packing

IMTP random packing combines the advantages of saddle shape packing with that of modern high-performance ring-type packings. The inherent shape provides a lower pressure drop at the same vapor and liquid loads compared to previous-generation packings. IMTP random packing has been applied in numerous distillation and absorption columns around the world. For demanding applications, combining IMTP random packing with state-of-the-art INTALOX Packed Tower Systems column internals is recommended.

3. HY-PAK Random Packing

An improvement to the FLEXIRING packing geometry is in the HY-PAK random packing, introduced to the market in the late 1960s. Maintaining a 1:1 aspect ratio, the number of fingers was doubled. The mechanical strength was enhanced through the introduction of circumferential stiffening ribs. The new geometry allowed the rings to be made slightly larger, effectively providing a new packing with increased capacity, reduced pressure drop, and no noticeable reduction in efficiency. HY-PAK packing is widely used as a direct replacement for FLEXIRING or Pall ring random packings of equivalent size in many applications to gain capacity or reduce pressure drop.

4. CASCADE MINI-RINGS Random Packing (CMR Random Packing)

In 1971, a new approach was taken to the slotted ring packing concept with the introduction of CASCADE MINI RINGS or CMR high-performance random packing. The CMR random packing utilizes an aspect ratio of 1:3 (height of the cylinder is 1/3 of the diameter). As a result, the packing elements preferentially orient themselves with the cylindrical axis tending towards vertical. This preferential orientation better exposes both the interior and exterior surfaces of the rings to the liquid and vapor, providing more efficient use of the packing surface. At the same time, this orientation allows a less restricted flow for the vapor, resulting in increased capacity while reducing pressure drop.

Plastic Random Packing

Koch-Glitsch offers a wide range of sizes and styles of traditional and high-performance plastic random packings. Plastic packings are used in corrosive applications with low to moderate operating temperatures and can offer an economical advantage over metal materials. Typical services that use plastic random packing are absorption, scrubbing, stripping, and heat transfer applications.

1. CASCADE MINI-RINGS Random Packing

The low aspect ratio of CASCADE MINI-RINGS random packing results in preferential orientation when loaded into the tower, which can increase capacity and reduce pressure drop. Koch-Glitsch offers multiple sizes of this packing to optimize the efficiency and capacity for your specific applications.

The geometry of the CASCADE MINI-RINGS random packing provides higher efficiency by more efficient use of the packing surface. The open structure inhibits fouling by allowing solids to be more easily flushed through the bed by the liquid.

2. INTALOX SNOWFLAKE High-Performance Packing

INTALOX SNOWFLAKE high-performance random packing provides the lowest pressure drop of any Koch-Glitsch plastic random packing. Lower pressure drop reduces energy consumption in applications requiring blowers or compressors and has been shown to save up to 50% in energy costs compared to #1 plastic saddle. 

For low-liquid rate designs, INTALOX SNOWFLAKE high-performance random packing provides exceptional efficiency while allowing for additional capacity for high-liquid-rate designs. In both applications, these benefits can provide a reduction in vessel size. The mechanically robust shape allows for a further reduction in vessel height by allowing deeper bed depths.

3. BETA RING Random Packing

The BETA RING random packing utilizes a unique, proprietary construction of slots, tabs, and spokes to provide excellent surface area for effective gas and liquid contact and improved separation efficiency. The open structure inhibits fouling by allowing solids to be more easily flushed through the bed by the liquid.

The low aspect ratio of the BETA RING random packing results in preferential orientation when loaded into the tower, which increases capacity and provides lower pressure drop compared to Pall rings and saddles.

4. FLEXIRING Random Packing

FLEXIRING random packing is favored by designers and industries that prefer metal FLEXIRING packing and other metal packings but now need the corrosion resistance of the plastic construction. Although this packing does not have the "high performance" characteristics of INTALOX SNOWFLAKE or BETA RING random packings, it has been used extensively in corrosive services. Further, it is less sensitive to liquid distribution quality and has higher liquid hold-up and residence time for those services that benefit from such characteristics.