Carbon black reactor with improved burner
AssigneeSid Richardson Carbon & Gasoline Co.
InventorsDavid F. Pobst, Jr., Jesse M. Bailey, Jr.
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Abstract
An improved carbon black process burner is disclosed which finds its preferred use in reactors for forming carbon black by the thermal decomposition of liquid hydrocarbons. The burner combusts a pre-mixed blend of fluid fuel and oxidant gas and is characterized by a flame holder having a plurality of elongated parallel orifices which produces improved combustion by inducing optimum recirculation between spaced parallel fluid jets of premixed fuel and oxidant gas issuing through the orifices. This abstract is not to be construed in any way to define or limit the invention set forth below.
Claims13
In a carbon black reactor of the type having a burner section for combusting a pre-mixture of fluid fuel and oxygen gas to create hot combustion gases within said reactor for thermally decomposing a hydrocarbon feedstock into carbon black and waste gas, the improvement which comprises:
- a flameholder in said burner section adapted to produce non-streamlined flow of said mixture of fluid fuel and oxygen gas therethrough, said flameholder comprising a plurality of non-streamlined bodies spaced substantially equidistant from each other to provide a plurality of elongated parallel orifices of approximately equal thicknesses;
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- plenum means for supplying said premixture of fluid fuel and oxygen gas through said elongated parallel orifices to produce parallel jets of said premixture for combustion.
A carbon black reactor comprising:
- a burner section;
- said burner section including plenum means for supplying a mixture of fluid fuel and oxygen gas to flameholder means;
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- flameholder means for combusting said mixture of fluid fuel and oxygen gas, said flameholder means comprising a plurality of non-streamlined bodies spaced substantially equidistant from each other to provide a plurality of elongated parallel orifices of approximately equal thicknesses through which said mixture of fluid fuel and oxygen gas may issue as non-streamlined parallel jets of said mixture, for combustion into hot combustion product gases;
- means for injecting a hydrocarbon feedstock into the hot combustion product gases for thermal decomposition into carbon black;
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- quench means for quenching said reaction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.