Process for making combustible gas

Patent · Tue Oct 10 04:00:00 EST 1933

OSTI ID:6741938

Odell, W W

This patent describes a process of making combustible gas substantially free from suspended carbon resulting from hydrocarbon decomposition. The process consists of introducing a mixture of steam and a hydrocarbon gas comprising chiefly propane and butane into a highly heated fuel bed thereby producing a gas comprising essentially hydrogen and carbon monoxide in which the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide is substantially from two to one to three to one. It follows by enriching the resulting gas by at least partially reforming in a chamber containing refractory material hydrocarbons which are liquid at normal temperatures and pressures.

• Assignee: Columbia Engineering and Management Corp., New York, NY
• Patent Number(s): US 1930442
• OSTI ID: 6741938
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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