Process for vaporizing a liquid hydrocarbon fuel

Patent · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:863951

Szydlowski, Donald F ^[1]; Kuzminskas, Vaidotas ^[2]; Bittner, Joseph E ^[1]

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1. East Hartford, CT
2. Glastonbury, CT

The object of the invention is to provide a process for vaporizing liquid hydrocarbon fuels efficiently and without the formation of carbon residue on the apparatus used. The process includes simultaneously passing the liquid fuel and an inert hot gas downwardly through a plurality of vertically spaed apart regions of high surface area packing material. The liquid thinly coats the packing surface, and the sensible heat of the hot gas vaporizes this coating of liquid. Unvaporized liquid passing through one region of packing is uniformly redistributed over the top surface of the next region until all fuel has been vaporized using only the sensible heat of the hot gas stream.

• DOE Contract Number: EX-76-C-01-2102
• Assignee: United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, CT)
• Patent Number(s): US 4282832
• OSTI ID: 863951
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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vaporizing
liquid
hydrocarbon
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efficiently
formation
carbon
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simultaneously
passing
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hot
gas
downwardly
plurality
vertically
spaed
apart
regions
surface
packing
material
thinly
coats
sensible
heat
vaporizes
coating
unvaporized
region
uniformly
redistributed
top
vaporized
stream
sensible heat
gas vapor
liquid hydrocarbon
top surface
hydrocarbon fuel
gas stream
hot gas
liquid fuel
hydrocarbon fuels
packing material
vaporizing liquid
vaporized liquid
carbon residue
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