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Method and apparatus for vortex flow carbon black production

AssigneePhillips Petroleum Company

InventorPaul J. Cheng

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Abstract

A method and apparatus for producing carbon black in which combustion gas is introduced into a precombustion or combustion zone of a carbon black reactor in a manner to produce a vortex of combustion gases traveling axially through said reactor and a flow of fluid which contains feedstock is introduced into the reactor in a manner to produce another axially moving vortex internal to the combustion gas vortex with both of these vortices passed through a combustion zone to produce carbon black. In embodiments of the invention, method and apparatus for producing a vortex of feedstock, a vortex of cooling air interfaced with axially flowing feedstock, or combined vortices of feedstock and cooling air. In embodiments of the invention, feedstock and/or cooling air are given the same rotational flow as that of the combustion gases to produce carbon black of decreased structure or the feedstock and/or cooling air are given counter-rotational flow to that of the combustion gases to reduce ash deposit in the carbon black reactor.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus for producing carbon black which comprises:

(a) a carbon black reactor having at least a combustion zone,
(b) a means for introducing combustion gas in a precombustion or combustion zone of said carbon black reactor in a manner to produce a vortex of combustion gases traveling axially in said reactor, and
(c) a means for producing an axially moving vortex of fluid which contains feedstock internally to said combustion gas vortex said means for producing a feedstock containing vortex comprising (1) a first centrally located tubular member with a feedstock outlet nozzle at the downstream end and (2) a second tubular member, closed at both ends, and disposed about said first tubular member to form an annular space, the downstream end of said second member being located upstream of said feedstock outlet, said second member having an inlet means for cooling air at the upstream end and a plurality of tangential slots circumferentially disposed at the downstream end to produce a flow of a fluid which contains feedstock in a vortex of cooling air moving axially in said reactor interfacing with the vortex of (b) under conditions to produce carbon black.

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Application: 06/318,780Filed 6 Nov 1981 · division
Priority: 30 Apr 1980
Granted: 19 Jul 1983
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

C09C 1/50
Carbon black: furnace black ; Preparation thereof
B01J 19/0006
Chemical, physical or physico-chemical processes in general; Their relevant apparatus: controlling or regulating processes
C09C
Treatment of inorganic materials, other than fibrous fillers, to enhance their pigmenting
B01J
Chemical or physical processes

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Serial145,094Parent of this division · filed 30 Apr 1980
US 4,321,248 AParent of this division
US 4,394,350 AThis patent

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