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Reboilers

We offer reboilers for anyone who doesn't have the space, but is looking for more efficient heat transfer rates in their distillation and other chemical processes. Anyone who has used Alfa Laval's plate heat exchangers for a long period of time will tell you that the advantages of the new compact heat exchanger technology more than justify replacing the old conventional gasketed type heat exchanger. Much smaller than you'd think, efficient and capable of withstanding aggressive media, Alfa Laval's Compabloc™ has a lot to offer.

Reboilers may come in many designs and be used for different applications, but they are often used to transfer enough energy to bring the liquid at the bottom of distillation column to a boiling boint. Regarded as a heat exchanger, a reboiler provides heat to the bottom of industrial distillation and stripping columns in order to partially or completely vaporize a liquid it receives from the bottom of the column. While a condenser turns the vapour leaving the top of a distillation column into a liquid, the reboiler is used to turn the liquid leaving the bottom of a column into a vapour.

Alfa Laval's compabloc reboilers are best suited for handling applications at higher pressures and temperatures. They are considered a reliable alternative to the shell and tube heat exchangers that are used to handle extremely contaminated water. Highly recommended for acrylic acid and acrylates plants, these boilers can replace your traditional shell and tube technology at a cost effective price.

We offer two kinds of reboilers:

The Compabloc™ as a Reboiler: With its short flow path and large cross-section, the Compabloc is a perfect thermosiphon reboiler. Built around a pack of corrugated heat transfer plates that creates a maximum of turbulence, the Compabloc can generate a heat transfer coefficient that is two to four times greater than in a shell and tube design. Since it only requires 25 to 50% of the heat transfer area to do the same job as a shell and tube, it can replace the much larger shell and tube and sitll provide the same amount of energy to the process.

Spiral Heat Exchangers: Save money, time and space with Alfa Laval's new plate condenser. As a viable alternative to shell and tube condensers, the AlfaVap will optimise all of your chemical processes. The world's first plate condenser, the AlfaVap features a special corrugated plate pattern that induces a high degree of turbulence, providing substantially better heat transfer coefficients than conventional shell-and-tube reboilers. AlfaVap is especially efficient at high concentration and high viscosities, and can work with temperature differences down to 3-4°C. This is a big advantage when AlfaVap is used in TVR and MVR systems.

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