I have come accross a reboiler design that I am not familiar with on one of our plants where we have a severe water hammer on the condensate side of the reboiler. This reboiler is installed horizontally with the column bottoms circulating on the shell side and the steam going through the tubes...
We have a hydrogen stream being fed to our plant that is sometimes of spec on CO resulting in a loss of catalyst activity to our reactor for partially hydrogenating acetylene to ethylene.
Currently we are looking at using an activated carbon bed in a redundant drier vessel to protect the...
