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Title: Apparatus for entrained coal pyrolysis

Patent ·
OSTI ID:864399

This invention discloses a process and apparatus for pyrolyzing particulate coal by heating with a particulate solid heating media in a transport reactor. The invention tends to dampen fluctuations in the flow of heating media upstream of the pyrolysis zone, and by so doing forms a substantially continuous and substantially uniform annular column of heating media flowing downwardly along the inside diameter of the reactor. The invention is particularly useful for bituminous or agglomerative type coals.

Research Organization:
Occidental Research Corporation, Irvine, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC01-76ET10130; E (49-18)-2244
Assignee:
Occidental Research Corporation (Irvine, CA)
Patent Number(s):
4,359,363
Application Number:
06/298,566
OSTI ID:
864399
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 1981 Sep 02
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English