looking for a pilot scale reboiler
looking for a pilot scale reboiler
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Hi all,
I am looking for a pilot scale reboiler for an elevated-pressure distillation system. The basic requirements for the reboiler are
Material Steel
Volume 1 L
Power: electric heat 2kW
Temperature up to 300 oC
Pressure: up to 300 psi
I have been looking around for a while, but only found big ones(industry scales). Does anybody know if there is any equiptment company in U.S. might have solutions for such a pilot scale reboiler? You suggestions will be highly appreciated! Thank you!
Grand
I am looking for a pilot scale reboiler for an elevated-pressure distillation system. The basic requirements for the reboiler are
Material Steel
Volume 1 L
Power: electric heat 2kW
Temperature up to 300 oC
Pressure: up to 300 psi
I have been looking around for a while, but only found big ones(industry scales). Does anybody know if there is any equiptment company in U.S. might have solutions for such a pilot scale reboiler? You suggestions will be highly appreciated! Thank you!
Grand





RE: looking for a pilot scale reboiler
Pope Scientific might be willing to build you a custom unit. They make pilot plant equipment.
I am not sure exactly the purpose of the pilot operation but maybe you could just use a stab in heater in the bottom of the column in your pilot plant?
Are you looking to make the full scale reboiler a thermal siphon reboiler? Is that your concern?
Electric heating will give you different characteristics than steam heating will when you scale it up. Surface temperature of the elements are much hotter than steam.
Regards
StoneCold
RE: looking for a pilot scale reboiler
Thanks for your reply.
We need such a reboiler only for a research project. Since the steam source here doesn't meet the requirement, we have to use a electric heater.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Grand
RE: looking for a pilot scale reboiler
2 kW with a dead volume of 1L sounds impractical- I think you'll be building a unit with more than 1L hold-up.
If you need a complete pilot column, talk to Zeton (www.zeton.com) - they specialize in the design and construction of pilot- and demonstration-scale modular plants and are experts in small scale process equipment.
RE: looking for a pilot scale reboiler
consider what you may want in this reactor, ex - temperature indicator, level controller, pressure indicator, port for column connection, stirrer, etc.
Thus the volume of 1 Liter that you are scaling for may be larger due to the constraints of these equipments.
I have looked for reactors this size myself and they are considered to be more lab-scale rather than pilot scale so you may want to conduct a search for vendors in laboratory scales.
I realize that this was not an answer to your question, but hope it helps anyways...