Abstract:
A method and apparatus for treating hot exhaust gas to purify the gas and to recover the heat values therein includes removing particulate matter from the gas, purifying the gas by subliming or "freezing out" harmful, less volatile components and discharging the more volatile components as purified gas. The sublimed or "frozen out" components are collected and neutralized or utilized. The heat values may be recovered prior or subsequent to purifying, such as by spraying a power fluid into the gas to cool and increase the volume of the gas and then expanding the gas in an expansion turbine to further cool the gas and to produce shaft work. Alternatively, the heat values may be recovered from purified, hot gas by transferring the heat energy of the gas to a power fluid which operates in a Rankine cycle external combustion engine to do shaft work.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of preventing adhesion or caking of raw materials such as oil or coal as it is subjected to hydrogenation gasification while being heated to above 700.degree. K. as it passes downwardly through a reaction vessel. The particles of raw materials as they pass through the vessel in a temperature zone of about 600 to 700.degree. K. directly contact a medium intermittently at a temperature above 1000.degree. K. to rapidly heat the surfaces of the particles to above 700.degree. K. by direct contact with the hot medium alone, in the absence of combustion reaction, to cause the particles to become non-caking in its further downward passage through the reaction vessel.
Abstract:
In a coal gasification operation or similar conversion process carried out in the presence of an alkali metal-containing catalyst wherein solid particles containing alkali metal residues are produced, alkali metal constituents are recovered from the particles by treating them with a calcium or magnesium-containing compound in the presence of water at a temperature between about 250.degree. F. and about 700.degree. F. and in the presence of an added base to establish a pH during the treatment step that is higher than would otherwise be possible without the addition of the base. During the treating process the relatively high pH facilitates the conversion of water-insoluble alkali metal compounds in the alkali metal residues into water-soluble alkali metal constituents. The resultant aqueous solution containing water-soluble alkali metal constituents is then separated from the residue solids, which consist of the treated particles and any insoluble materials formed during the treatment step, and recycled to the gasification process where the alkali metal constituents serve as at least a portion of the alkali metal constituents which comprise the alkali metal-containing catalyst. Preferably, the base that is added during the treatment step is an alkali metal hydroxide obtained by water washing the residue solids produced during the treatment step.
Abstract:
Petroliferous material of tar sands is processed to recover material boiling below 850.degree. F. with higher boiling material converted to high BTU fuel gas and with heat developed transported to improve the thermal efficiency of the combination operation.
Abstract:
Conversion of raw coal to distillate liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon products by solvent liquefaction in the presence of molecular hydrogen employing recycle of mineral residue is commonly performed at a higher thermal efficiency than conversion of coal to pipeline gas in a gasification process employing partial oxidation and methanation reactions. The prior art has disclosed a combination coal liquefaction-gasification process employing recycle of mineral residue in the liquefaction zone wherein all the normally solid dissolved coal produced in the liquefaction zone is passed to a gasification zone for conversion to hydrogen, where the amount of normally solid dissolved coal prepared and passed to the gasification zone is just sufficient to enable the gasification zone to produce the exact hydrogen requirement of the process. The present invention provides an unexpected improvement in the thermal efficiency of the combination process by utilizing formulas based on feed coal characteristics to calculate an amount of normally solid dissolved coal to be prepared in the liquefaction zone and passed to the gasification zone to enable the gasification zone to generate not only all of the hydrogen required by the liquefaction zone but also to produce synthesis gas for use as fuel in the liquefaction zone. It would have been expected that shifting some of the processing load from the ordinarily more efficient liquefaction zone to the ordinarily less efficient gasification zone would decrease process efficiency, but the present combination process unexpectedly achieves an overall efficiency increase by said shift.
Abstract:
A single reactor is used for gasifying solid fuels of a wide range of particle sizes without first comminuting the particles to a common size. The larger particles are gasified on a fixed bed, and the smaller ones are gasified on a fluidized bed. In the reactor, the fluidized bed is arranged above the fixed bed and gases rising from the fixed bed help to fluidize the fluidized bed. In addition, a dust gasification region can be provided above the fluidized bed.
Abstract:
A carbon source and zinc oxide are reacted in a reactor to form a gas consisting essentially of carbon monoxide and zinc. The zinc is separated and reoxidized in a zinc oxidizer. In the reactor and the zinc oxidizer, heat exchange means are provided for that are connected to each other to form a heat exchange loop through which a heat exchange fluid is circulated such as to supply heat generated in the zinc oxidizer to the reactor.
Abstract:
Continuous process for the gasification of particulate coal with steam wherein SO.sub.2 is present, preferably through introduction into the steam, thereby enabling the steam to react with the coal at considerably lower than conventional temperatures such as temperatures ranging upwards of 1200.degree. F, preferably 1400.degree. F.
Abstract:
A process for the production of combustible gas from waste materials and other combustible materials, in which the charge is dried, its combustible parts are subjected to low-temperature carbonization and the low-temperature carbonization gases are converted to combustible gas in a hot reaction bed. The charge is subjected to low-temperature carbonization at a temperature of from 300.degree. to 600.degree. C with the exclusion of air, the resulting solid low-temperature carbonization residues are separated and the low-temperature carbonization gases are continuously drawn through a reaction bed at a temperature of from 1000.degree. to 1200.degree. C formed from a solid carbon vehicle and a preheated fresh-air supply, and are converted to high-energy combustible gas in said reaction bed.
Abstract:
A process for producing hot combustible gas free of sulfur, halogens and particulate matter. The process comprises passing oxygen, steam and/or carbon dioxide through a reaction zone containing an alkali or alkaline earth metal oxide, hydroxide, bicarbonate or carbonate and a carbonaceous fuel such as coal. The sulfur and halogen in the carbonaceous fuel are removed resulting in a combustible gas substantially free of sulfur, halogens and particulate matter.