Consider adding a floating roof to your tank. Insulating it will reduce heat loss, and the roof itself prevents air contacting the liquid surface.
A roof does the same thing as the floating balls, but eliminates the water surface exposed between the ball circumferences.
Most tank...
One final point, if your compounds can tolerate a trace presence of water, of a light hydrocarbon stripping agent you can get a much improved bottoms product and upper streams yield by placing a very small amount of either compound in your feed or any bottoms stripper assembly your column might...
Your overhead pressure will likely be determined by the nearest bottleneck in your overhead vacuum system, or some combination of any side cooling you have. Typically the bottleneck is some combination of the cooling media temperature in the summer time, and the approach temperature of the...