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/riːˈbɔɪlə/, U.S. /ˌriˈbɔɪlər/ Manufacturing Technology.
A heater used to heat liquid that has condensed after previous heating, so as to turn it back into vapour; spec. one in which liquid from the bottom of a fractionating column is reheated to produce vapour that is returned to the column.
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1890 Indiana Democrat 19 June The water after leaving the engine passes through an oil separator and..into the pipes [in] which the steam is condensed. Then it passes into what is known as a reboiler from which pipes take it to the filter.
1929 Industr. & Engin. Chem. 21 923/2 Three reboilers are shown at the side and bottom of the tower.
1956 W. L. McCabe & J. C. Smith Unit Operations Chem. Engin. xii. 685 The liquid feed flows down the column to the still, which in this type of plant is called the ‘reboiler’, and is subjected to rectification by the vapor rising from the reboiler.
1970 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 14 Nov. 1/2 The official said the explosion resulted when a glycol reboiler ruptured. The reboiler is used in dehydrating natural gas.
2007 Energy 32 468/2 In adiabatic distillation heat is only added in a reboiler and only withdrawn in a condenser.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
reboilerv.
/riːˈbɔɪlə/, U.S. /riˈbɔɪlər/ transitive. To fit (a ship, a train, etc.) with a new boiler.
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1889 Daily Chron. 30 June 7/1 What has been the total cost of re-boilering H.M.S. Salamander?
1908 Westm. Gaz. 25 Apr. 2/3 The Banter Line decided to reboiler the Caesar and go for the Atlantic record.
1961 Guardian 5 June 10/6 One of the two original engines..was..reboilered just a year before the line closed.
1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) x. 95 Rescued, reboilered, re-engined and repainted, every one of those wrecks is now in steam somewhere.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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