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Kettle Troubleshooting

| By Henry Z. Kister Fluor Corp. and Milton A. Chaves Hess Corp.

A survey of tower failures [ 1 ] ranks kettle reboilers as the most troublesome reboiler type in the chemical process industries (CPI). Excessive pressure drop in kettle reboiler circuits is the prominent kettle malfunction, causing liquid to back up…