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Reboilers

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Reboilers are used widely in the process industry to generate a flux of vapor to feed to a distillation tower (or distillation column). The vapor rises up the tower contacting a downward flowing liquid stream, as shown in Fig. 1. The vapor is generated in the reboiler from the liquid stream leaving the lowest tray; the liquid is only partly evaporated, the remainder being partly recirculated through the reboiler and partly passed out of the system as the “bottom product” of the distillation tower. The mean residence time of the liquid in the bottom of the distillation tower (the “hold-up” time) is commonly 5–10 min.

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  1. Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, England

    P. B. Whalley

  2. Engineering Sciences Division, A.E.R.E. Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 ORA, England

    G. F. Hewitt

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  1. Thermal Hydraulics Division, U.K. Atomic Energy Authority, Harwell Laboratory, England

    G. F. Hewitt

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College of Sciences and Technology, London, England

    G. F. Hewitt

  3. Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Grenoble, Service des Transferts Thermiques, Grenoble, France

    J. M. Delhaye

  4. Division of Reactor Safety Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., USA

    N. Zuber

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Whalley, P.B., Hewitt, G.F. (1986). Reboilers. In: Hewitt, G.F., Delhaye, J.M., Zuber, N. (eds) Multiphase Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01657-2_4

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