Progress for producing hydrogen and carbon monoxide from gaseous hydrocarbons

Patent · Tue Jan 05 04:00:00 EST 1954

OSTI ID:6747345

Martin, H Z; Hemminger, C E

This patent describes a method for producing an industrial gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen from a gaseous hydrocarbon. The process involves circulating through a cycle, finely divided solid containing a metal oxide capable of yielding oxygen in the presence of said hydrocarbon and establishing in said cycle a pair of separate beds of said finely divided solid. It then involves passing upwardly through one of said beds a preheated mixture of a gaseous hydrocarbon and steam at a velocity sufficient to maintain the solids in said bed in a fluidized condition while maintaining in said bed a temperature at which said hydrocarbon reacts with said metal oxide. The product gas from the upper part of the chamber is placed in a heat exchange relation to the gaseous feed, which is passed upwardly through the other beds with an oxidizing gas at a velocity sufficient to maintain the finely divided solid in a fluidized condition while maintaining in said bed a temperature at which said metal is oxidized. The process concludes by recovering a hot residue gas from the upper portion of said bed and passing said hot residue gas in heat-exchange relation to the oxidizing gas fed to said bed.

• Assignee: Standard Oil Development Co., DE
• Patent Number(s): US 2665199
• OSTI ID: 6747345
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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