Process of producing a synthesis gas which has a low inert gas content

Patent · Tue May 07 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6356312

Eisenlohr, K H; Gaensslen, H; Kriebel, M; Tanz, H

In a process of producing a synthesis gas which has a low inert gas content and is intended for the synthesis of alcohols, particularly of methanol, and of hydrocarbons, and which is produced from coal or heavy hydrocarbons, by a gasification under pressure with oxygen and steam, whereafter the raw gas is cooled, the impurities are removed by a scrubbing with methanol, and the methanol is removed by means of molecular sieves from the cold pure gas. The pure gas is then cooled further and partly liquefied, the remaining gas is further cooled by a pressure relief and methane is distilled from the liquid part with simultaneous recovery of the synthesis gas, which consists of hydrogen and carbon monoxide and has a low methane content. All or part of the methane is compressed and is subsequently reacted with steam and oxygen to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The produced gas is admixed to the synthesis gas or to the partly purified raw gas.

• Assignee: Metallgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
• Patent Number(s): US 4515604
• OSTI ID: 6356312
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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10 SYNTHETIC FUELS
ADSORBENTS
ALCOHOLS
ALKANES
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
COAL
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
INERT ATMOSPHERE
MATERIALS
METHANE
METHANOL
MOLECULAR SIEVES
NONMETALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PRODUCTION
SCRUBBING
STEAM
SYNTHESIS