Dear all,
We recently had an issue where a drum which is feeding hydrocarbon to a tower had its water from the water boot carried over to the hydrocarbon side.
The small amount of water overloaded the overhead of the downstream tower. Even though the amount of water small, our study shows that the duty demand in the overhead increased by 48% which obviously cannot be provided by the existing condenser.
I'd like to know if any of you have faced this situation before and what did you do to prevent such incidents? We only have one LT at the water boot of the drum. This seems to have failed.