Manufacture of water gas or gas consisting largely of carbon monoxide and hydrogen

Patent · Tue Jun 05 04:00:00 EDT 1951

OSTI ID:6742077

Williams, N H

This patent describes a cyclic process for the manufacture of water gas or the like by passing air and reaction gas upwardly through the generator and blasting the fuel bed used for uprun gas making. The said air and reaction gas is first preheated in a recuperator by heat exchange with the product gases of their respective passage through the generator. The process continues by passing the said product gases through a regenerator on their way to the recuperator, reducing in extent cyclic fluctuations in the temperature of the product gases entering the said recuperator. The final process involves passing reaction gas for backrun through part of the regenerator disposed nearest to the generator without directly cooling the remaining part of the mass nearest to the recuperator and then passing it downwardly through the fuel bed.

• Assignee: Humphreys and Glasgow, Ltd., Westminster, England
• Patent Number(s): US 2556019
• OSTI ID: 6742077
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010404* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Gasification
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COAL GASIFICATION
DESIGN
FLUIDS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
GAS FUELS
GAS GENERATORS
GASES
GASIFICATION
HEAT EXCHANGERS
INTERMEDIATE BTU GAS
LOW BTU GAS
OPERATION
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT UNITS
PRODUCER GAS
PRODUCTION
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
WATER GAS
WATER GAS PROCESSES