Slurry bubble column reactor for a fischer-tropsch process
AssigneesL'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude, The Petroleum Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa (SOC) Ltd
InventorsMarc Brueschke, Patrick Otto Taylor, Pål Søraker
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Abstract
The disclosure deals with a slurry bubble column reactor for converting a gas mixture comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons. The slurry bubble column reactor features a slurry bed of catalyst particles, an inlet conduit for feeding the gas mixture into the slurry bed, a filtration zone for separating the liquid hydrocarbons from the catalyst particles and a liquid outlet conduit for withdrawing the separated hydrocarbons from the filtration zone. The filtration zone is situated in the slurry bubble column reactor such that the slurry bed is found in a first and a second heat exchange zone with the filtration zone arranged between the first and the second heat exchange zone.
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A slurry bubble column reactor for converting a gas mixture comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons featuring a slurry bed of catalyst particles, an inlet conduit for feeding the gas mixture into the slurry bed, a filtration zone for separating the liquid hydrocarbons from the catalyst particles and a liquid outlet conduit for withdrawing the separated hydrocarbons from the filtration zone, wherein the filtration zone is situated in the slurry bubble column reactor such that the slurry bed is found in a first and a second heat exchange zones with the filtration zone arranged between the first and the second heat exchange zones.
A process for converting a gas mixture comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons, when the gas mixture is fed into a slurry bed in a slurry bubble column reactor, where at least part of the gas mixture is converted into liquid hydrocarbons on the catalyst particles in the slurry bed, wherein the obtained liquid hydrocarbons are separated from the catalyst particles in a filtration zone located in the slurry bubble column reactor and wherein at least parts of the separated liquid hydrocarbons are withdrawn from the filtration zone, wherein the gas mixture is converted in two heat exchange zones fluently connected via the filtration zone only.
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