Fuel-gas production

Patent · Tue May 05 04:00:00 EDT 1942

OSTI ID:6747037

Ditto, M W; Torrington, W P

This patent describes a method for the production of combustible gas by introducing a mass of green substantially solid carbonaceous material into the upper portion of a stack and feeding the mass successively through a distillation zone, a reduction zone, oxidation zone, and an incandescent zone, in the order named. The process involves maintaining the incandescent zone in a state of incandescence by blowing air into the lower portion of the mass, injecting an intimate mixture of water and fuel oil in atomized condition into the incandescent zone, burning the fuel oil and some of the resulting combustible gases in said incandescent zone, and passing hot gases upwardly from the incandescent zone through said mass. This results in subjecting carbonaceous material above the zone of incandescence to distillation and partial combustion, with the resulting gases being discharged from the upper portion of said distillation zone.

• Assignee: Emulsions Process Corp., New York, NY
• Patent Number(s): US 2281562
• OSTI ID: 6747037
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
COAL GASIFICATION
DESIGN
FLUIDS
FUEL GAS
FUEL OILS
FUELS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
GAS FUELS
GAS GENERATORS
GASES
GASIFICATION
LIQUID FUELS
MATERIALS
OILS
OPERATION
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT UNITS
PRODUCTION
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES