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Oil-gas apparatus

Patent ·
OSTI ID:7209059
This patent is an apparatus for manufacturing gas. The apparatus consists of a retort having a vertical chamber with a gas outlet at the bottom; a solid fuel hopper at the top, having a lower cone-shaped end entering the top of said chamber; an oil-supply pipe passing through said tubular portion of the hopper and adapted to discharge a divergent spray into the top of said chamber and downwardly thereinto; and air and steam pipes entering the central tubular portion of the hopper. These discharge in the said divergent portion in juxtaposition with the oil-supply pipe, whereby the steam and air may be commingled with the spraying oil and directed downwardly into the chamber of the retort.
Assignee:
JMT; EDB-87-061993
Patent Number(s):
US 951512
OSTI ID:
7209059
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English