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Title: Power recovery system for coal liquefaction process

Patent ·
OSTI ID:865405

A flow work exchanger for use in feeding a reactant material to a high-pressure reactor vessel comprises an outer shell, an inner shell concentrically disposed within said outer shell, means for conducting said reactant into the lower end of said lower shell and then to said reactor vessel, and means for conducting a hotter product effluent from said reactor vessel into the upper end of said inner shell and out of the annulus between said inner and outer shells.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-26
Assignee:
United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
Patent Number(s):
US 4510121
OSTI ID:
865405
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English