Micro-reactor and method implementation for methanation
AssigneeKarlsruher Institut Fuer Technologie
InventorsPeter Pfeifer, Michael Belimov
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Abstract
The invention relates to a reactor, preferably microreactor, for methanation, and to the operation of this reactor, i.e. to the process regime for preparation of methane.
Claims21
A reactor, wherein the reactor comprises a reactor shell, a reaction space, a cooling space, and fluid-tight separate inlets for at least one fluid reactant and for at least one cooling fluid, there being at least two inlets for the at least one cooling fluid each with at least one convoluted channel and column structure with reversal of flow, and wherein the reactor is connected in a fluid-tight manner to an upstream electrolysis apparatus.
A process for preparing hydrocarbons, wherein the process comprises preparing the hydrocarbons by using a reactor which comprises a reactor shell, a reaction space, a cooling space, and fluid-tight separate inlets for at least one fluid reactant and for at least one cooling fluid, there being at least two inlets for the at least one cooling fluid each with at least one convoluted channel and column structure with reversal of flow.
A reactor, wherein the reactor comprises a reactor shell, a reaction space, a cooling space, and fluid-tight, separate inlets for at least one fluid reactant and for at least one cooling fluid, wherein the reactor comprises at least two inlets for the at least one cooling fluid each comprising at least one convoluted channel and column structure with reversal of flow, wherein the reactor comprises at least a discharge line for warmed cooling fluid, which comprises at least one convoluted channel and column structure with reversal of flow, a channel structure being an elongated cavity parallel to a flow direction in the reaction space and a column structure being an elongated cavity perpendicular to a flow direction in the reaction space, a column structure being part of a conduction of the cooling fluid, which connects two channel structures and thus enables a fluid-tight conduction of the cooling fluid, wherein the reaction space is loaded with a catalyst, and wherein the cooling space succeeds at least one of the at least two inlets for the cooling fluid, extends to the discharge line and runs parallel to the reaction space.
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