Synthesis gas generation
This patent describes a process for the production of a gaseous mixture comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide from a solid carbonaceous fuel by reaction with steam and oxygen. The process involves an improvement which introducing a stream of solid carbonaceous fuel suspended in steam into an elongated vertical cylindrical reaction zone. Then introducing a stream of oxygen-containing gas free from fuel into said zone whereby the reactants and resulting product gases are given a spiral motion downwardly along the wall of the reaction zone. All of the gaseous product is passed axially from a point within said zone along the point of introduction of said reactants and above the center of said zone. The process continues by all of the reactants being introduced into the level point of withdrawal, whereby the reactants and resulting reaction products form a stream flowing spirally downwardly in an annulus from the upper portion of the reaction zone to the lower portion of said zone. The movement is, therefore, upward along the axis to said point of withdrawal in direct radiant-heat-transfer relation with said downwardly flowing spiral.
- Assignee:
- Texas Co., New York, NY
- Patent Number(s):
- US 2655443
- OSTI ID:
- 6747308
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 2 Mar 1948
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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