Abstract:
Coal devolatized and partially gasified in a travelling grate reactor is dropped into a shaft furnace to form a downwardly moving stack which moves then downwardly to and through a fixed bed gasifier, wherein it is burned to ash. A gas stream from the travelling grate reactor is down-drafted through the shaft furnace and a gas stream is up-drafted through the fixed bed gasifier, and the two streams combined are drawn through a heat exchanger and fed to a gas burner, combustion air for the gas burner being heated in the heat exchanger.
Abstract:
An integrated process for the gasification of coal alone or with other carbon-containing materials such as solid municipal wastes, biomass and sewage sludges, wherein the endothermic heat required by the gasification reaction is supplied at least in a significant part by the exothermic reaction of CaO in the form of calcined lime or dolomite with carbon dioxide. The CO.sub.2 is recycled to provide a high CO.sub.2 vapor pressure for the exothermic reaction. The calcium carbonate formed in the reaction is decomposed in a combustor to produce the CaO which is recycled to the gasification stage.
Abstract translation:用于单独或与其他含碳材料如固体城市废物,生物质和污水污泥气化的综合方法,其中气化反应所需的吸热至少在很大程度上由CaO的放热反应供应 以煅烧石灰或白云石与二氧化碳的形式。 CO 2被再循环以提供用于放热反应的高CO 2蒸气压。 反应中形成的碳酸钙在燃烧器中分解,生成再循环至气化阶段的CaO。
Abstract:
A process for the gasification of solid carbon comprising heating under suitable conditions a feed comprising finely divided particles formed by admixing finely divided particles of solid carbon with a slurry of zinc nitrate, removing enough of the liquid of said slurry to give a solid product, calcining said solid product at a temperature no greater than about 550.degree. C. to convert a substantial portion of the zinc material to zinc oxide, and then comminuting the calcined material to the desired particle size.
Abstract:
This is an improved process for converting low-cost high-sulfur containing hydrocarbonaceous materials into a clean methane-rich gas stream which may be burned as a fuel without contaminating the atmosphere. A high-sulfur hydrocarbonaceous fuel is gasified by partial oxidation to produce a process gas stream which is cooled, cleaned and subjected to catalytic methanation over a sulfur-resistant catalyst comprising 0.8 to 10 atoms of an element selected from the group comprising Co, Cr, W or mixtures thereof per atom of an element selected from the group Mo, Ni, or mixtures thereof. The catalyst may be supported on a structure formed from Group III and IV elements e.g. alumina, silica stabilized alumina, zeolite. A distinct advantage of the subject process, is that the sulfur in the process gas stream is not removed prior to the methanation step. Rather, the sulfur is permitted to remain in the process gas stream in order to moderate the highly exothermic methanation reaction. After cooling and purification by removing one or more members of the group H2, CO, H2O, CO2, COS, H2S, Ar, and N2, the resulting methane-rich gas stream comprises about 10 to 95 mole % CH4. Optionally, the CH4 content of said methane-rich gas stream may be increased to about 98 mole % or more by the additional steps of water-gas shift conversion, catalytic methanation, cooling, drying and CO2 removal. The product gas would then have a gross heating value of about 1000 BTU/SCF.
Abstract:
A method for disposal of refuse by degasifying and gasification thereof in a retort having gas exhaustion near its outlet end, and in which the refuse is heated to such a degree that within the retort a gasification zone is maintained with a temperature of not below 900*C, by which new method a substantial part of the heat required for heating the refuse within the retort is obtained by means of steam superheated to a temperature of above 900*C, preferably above 1200*C, which steam is introduced into the retort. Preferably the steam or a part thereof is conducted through the retort co-current with the refuse, but most conveniently a part of the superheated steam is introduced into the retort between the refuse inlet and the gasification zone. Also it is recommended that the refuse is preheated to a temperature of 500* to 700*C before being influenced by the superheated steam. In many cases it may be appropriate that also at least a part of the retort wall is directly heated. Most advantageously a retort of the type corresponding to a rotary kiln is used.
Abstract:
A METHOD OF PYROLYZING CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS INCLUDING INDUSTRIAL, MUNICIPAL AND AGRICULTURE WASTES IS DISCLOSED. THE CARBONACEOUS MATERIAL IS PYROLYZED BY CONTACT WITH A MOLTEN ALKALI METAL SALT WHICH CONTAINS SULFIDE AND/OR SULFATE IONS. THE PRODUCTS OF THE REACTION ARE A PYROLYSIS GAS AND CHAR. CHAR IS CONSUMED IN CONVERTING THE SULFATE TO SULFIDE. A REACTIVE SOURCE OF OXYGEN IS INTRODUCED INTO THE MELT CONVERTING SULFIDE BACK TO SULFATE AND LIBERATING HEAT TO THE MELT TO SUSTAIN THE OPERATION.
Abstract:
Production of synthesis gas from a slurry of particulate solid carboniferous fuel e.g., petroleum coke, coke from bituminous coal, coal, oil shale, tar sands, pitch, or mixtures of said solid fuels in water or in a hydrocarbon liquid fuel. Pumpable slurries containing 1-60 weight percent of ground solid carboniferous fuel in petroleum oil and 25-55 weight percent of ground solid carboniferous fuel in water at a relatively low velocity in the range of 5 to 50 feet per second is mixed with a stream of oxidizing gas at a relatively high velocity in the range of 200 feet per second to sonic velocity at the burner tip to form an atomized dispersion of water, hydrocarbon liquid fuel, oxidizing gas and particulate solid carboniferous fuel. Under synthesis gas generating conditions the atomized dispersion is reacted to produce a gaseous mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. By this process, slurry feeds of low cost solid carboniferous fuels may be gasified without being preheated.