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Fouling resulting from the flow of cryogenic liquids (liquid H2, He, N2, Ar, etc.) is usually not considered a serious problem, since the purity of the liquids involved is high. Nevertheless, it was sated during a panel session at the recent International Heat Transfer Conference in San Francisco (1) that fouling during the evaportation of cryogenic liquids is one of the major unsolved problems in the separation and production of liquified gases. Reboilers associated with the respective distillation columns have to be designed using heat transfer coefficients much lower than the values previously determined in pool boiling studies.
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Müller-Steinhagen, H. (1988). Fouling of Cryogenic Liquids. In: Melo, L.F., Bott, T.R., Bernardo, C.A. (eds) Fouling Science and Technology. NATO ASI Series, vol 145. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2813-8_21
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