I work primarily on the Gulf Coast, and while most of the interchangeable usage of the terms have been conversational, I have also seen both terms used formally within the same process unit, e.g., a fractionation column and a stripper tower. This lends credibility to the possibility that some...
I've heard the terms tower and column used interchangeably through out my career. What, if any, difference would there be between a tower and a column?
