Inventors:
Otto H. Hoegberg - Houston TX
Assignee:
The M. W. Kellogg Company - Houston TX
International Classification:
B01D 332
Abstract:
A thermosiphon reboiler heat exchanger which integrates multiple parallel reboilers into a single unit and a heating method are disclosed. The present heat exchanger utilizes a compartmentalized shell for vaporizing a tube-side liquid with a plurality of hot shell-side fluids. The present apparatus is particularly useful for a fractionation system in a phenol manufacture process.