Manufacture of water gas

Patent · Tue May 15 04:00:00 EDT 1951

OSTI ID:6747189

Ramseyer, C F

This paper discusses a low-pressure process of making water gas and the like, which consists in heating finely divided carbonaceous material of the class consisting of peat, lignite, and wood, in the presence of oxygen to char the carbonaceous material. The process continues by pumping a stream of charred carbonaceous material at about 30 feet per second, injecting superheated steam under superatmospheric pressure of 50 to 500 p.s.i. into said material to suspend said material in said steam. This will render the same fluent, which is then externally heated to about 800 to 2000 feet of said stream to a temperature between 800/sup 0/ and 1600/sup 0/F and then throtted to maintain it under a static pressure of 50 to 500 p.s.i.

• Assignee: H.A. Brassert and Co., New York, NY
• Patent Number(s): US 2552866
• OSTI ID: 6747189
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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Lignite
& Peat-- Gasification
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090100 -- Hydrocarbon Fuels-- (-1989)
090400 -- Solid Waste & Wood Fuels-- (-1989)
10 SYNTHETIC FUELS
BROWN COAL
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COAL
COAL GASIFICATION
CONTROL
DESIGN
ENERGY SOURCES
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
GAS FUELS
GAS GENERATORS
GASES
GASIFICATION
HEATING
INTERMEDIATE BTU GAS
LIGNITE
MATERIALS
OPERATION
ORGANIC MATTER
PEAT
PRESSURE CONTROL
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT UNITS
PRODUCTION
SUPERHEATERS
SUPERHEATING
SYNTHESIS
TEMPERATURE CONTROL
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
WATER GAS
WATER GAS PROCESSES
WOOD
WOOD FUELS