Continuous Distillation with a Fouling Reboiler A large chemical plant operates a fouling reboiler with forced circulation on a distillation column. When allowing boiling in the tubes, the operation suffers from severe fouling of the exchanger. Suppressing the evaporation in the tubes by installing a throttle plate in the reboiler outlet did not inhibit fouling. The … [Read more...]
Distillation Part 2 – Reboilers
Part one of our discussion about distillation focused on the internals of the distillation tower. While distillation refers to how the separation of liquids by boiling point, this doesn’t include how the vapor reaches the top of the tower, which is done by using reboilers. … [Read more...]