Method for reacting nongaseous material with a gaseous reactant

Patent · 27 March 1979

OSTI ID:863315

Lumpkin, Robert E ^[1]; Duraiswamy, Kandaswamy ^[2]

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1. Claremont, CA
2. Sterling, VA

This invention relates to a new and novel method and apparatus for reacting nongaseous material with a gaseous reactant comprising introducing a first stream containing a nongaseous material into a reaction zone; simultaneously introducing a second stream containing a gaseous reactant into the reaction zone such that the gaseous reactant immediately contacts and reacts with the first stream thereby producing a gaseous product; forming a spiralling vortex within the reaction zone to cause substantial separation of gases, including the gaseous product, from the nongaseous material; forming and removing a third stream from the reaction zone containing the gaseous product which is substantially free of the nongaseous material before a major portion of the gaseous product can react with the nongaseous material; and forming and removing a fourth stream containing the nongaseous material from the reaction zone.

• Research Organization: OCCIDENTAL RESEARCH CORP
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-76ET10130
• Assignee: Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)
• Patent Number(s): US 4146359
• Application Number: 05/700,005
• OSTI ID: 863315
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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