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Checks for leaking reboiler

Checks for leaking reboiler

Checks for leaking reboiler

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I need all the help I can get here.
There is a sudden increase in water in our distillation operation. We checked for Cooling Water chemicals in the process (Cloride) for prossible ingress from the CW condenser but found none. This suggest that the water may be ingressed from the steam reboiler. The steam rate is at 26 tonnes/hr normal flow and the suspect leak rate is about 80 kg/hr. So we can't see any significant increase in the steam rate. Has anyone experience this? Is there any method of confirming that the steam is leaking into the process side?
Appreciate any input from you all. Thanks

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