Method and apparatus for a catalytic firebox reactor
Abstract
A catalytic firebox reactor employing an exothermic catalytic reaction channel and multiple cooling conduits for creating a partially reacted fuel/oxidant mixture. An oxidation catalyst is deposited on the walls forming the boundary between the multiple cooling conduits and the exothermic catalytic reaction channel, on the side of the walls facing the exothermic catalytic reaction channel. This configuration allows the oxidation catalyst to be backside cooled by any fluid passing through the cooling conduits. The heat of reaction is added to both the fluid in the exothermic catalytic reaction channel and the fluid passing through the cooling conduits. After discharge of the fluids from the exothermic catalytic reaction channel, the fluids mix to create a single combined flow. A further innovation in the reactor incorporates geometric changes in the exothermic catalytic reaction channel to provide streamwise variation of the velocity of the fluids in the reactor.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Precision Combustion, Inc., New Haven, CT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 873491
- Patent Number(s):
- 6174159
- Application Number:
- 09/272,395
- Assignee:
- Precision Combustion, Inc. (New Haven, CT)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F23 - COMBUSTION APPARATUS F23C - METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN {A CARRIER GAS OR} AIR
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-95ER82054
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 1999 Mar 18
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- /431/
Citation Formats
Smith, Lance L., Etemad, Shahrokh, Ulkarim, Hasan, Castaldi, Marco J., and Pfefferle, William C. Method and apparatus for a catalytic firebox reactor. United States: N. p., 2001.
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Smith, Lance L., Etemad, Shahrokh, Ulkarim, Hasan, Castaldi, Marco J., & Pfefferle, William C. Method and apparatus for a catalytic firebox reactor. United States.
Smith, Lance L., Etemad, Shahrokh, Ulkarim, Hasan, Castaldi, Marco J., and Pfefferle, William C. Mon .
"Method and apparatus for a catalytic firebox reactor". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/873491.
@article{osti_873491,
title = {Method and apparatus for a catalytic firebox reactor},
author = {Smith, Lance L. and Etemad, Shahrokh and Ulkarim, Hasan and Castaldi, Marco J. and Pfefferle, William C.},
abstractNote = {A catalytic firebox reactor employing an exothermic catalytic reaction channel and multiple cooling conduits for creating a partially reacted fuel/oxidant mixture. An oxidation catalyst is deposited on the walls forming the boundary between the multiple cooling conduits and the exothermic catalytic reaction channel, on the side of the walls facing the exothermic catalytic reaction channel. This configuration allows the oxidation catalyst to be backside cooled by any fluid passing through the cooling conduits. The heat of reaction is added to both the fluid in the exothermic catalytic reaction channel and the fluid passing through the cooling conduits. After discharge of the fluids from the exothermic catalytic reaction channel, the fluids mix to create a single combined flow. A further innovation in the reactor incorporates geometric changes in the exothermic catalytic reaction channel to provide streamwise variation of the velocity of the fluids in the reactor.},
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