Low-pressure condensate
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Why aren’t the low-pressure condensates from the heat tracing station and those from the column reboiler collected in the same pipeline? It is said that large temperature differences can lead to water hammer, but how exactly do large temperature differences cause water hammer? The temperature after neutralization is lower than the highest temperature of the two. No gas is produced even at high temperatures, so certainly not at low temperatures. Please explain.
Perhaps the difference in vapor pressure between the two is large; when they are combined, the side with lower pressure will have difficulty in discharging liquid. Additionally, the heat-treated condensate can be recycled, but this isn’t necessarily the case for the reboiler’s condensate