Gasification reactor with internal gas baffling and liquid collector
AssigneeTexaco Inc.
InventorsMichael C. Martin, George M. Gulko
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Abstract
A gasifier having a combustion chamber in which a hydrocarbonaceous fuel is burned to produce a usable gas. A quench chamber is positioned to receive said gas and other byproducts as an effluent stream, in a coolant liquid quench bath. A dip tube and draft tube define a tortuous passage within a quench chamber for directing the gaseous segment to a discharge port by way of said quench bath. A baffle positioned in the path of the gas includes a manifold at the baffle lower end to receive condensate which flows from said baffle face and returns water to the quench bath.
Claims6
A gasifier, which houses means defining a combustion chamber in which a particulated combustible fuel is burned to produce an effluent stream comprised of a usable gas and a particulated solid residue, a quench chamber
- means located below said combustion chamber
- in said gasifier holding a pool of liquid coolant,
- a dip tube communicating said combustion chamber with the quench chamber to conduct said effluent stream into said coolant pool,
- a draft tube positioned outwardly of said dip tube defining a first annular gas passage therebetween,
- a vertically extending baffle plate having an inner wall, directed downwardly from the combustion chamber defining a second annular gas passage with said draft tube, and having a lower plate edge disposed above the surface of said coolant pool,
- liquid collecting manifold suspended from said baffle plate lower edge forming a continuation to the baffle inner wall, whereby to receive liquid which impinges against and flows down said inner wall,
- and a downspout extending from said manifold to an outlet at said pool of coolant to drain liquid from said manifold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.