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AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsTheodore A. Koch, Karl Robert Krause, Mehrdad Mehdizadeh, Sourav Kumar Sengupta, Benny Earl Blackwell
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An improved induction heated reactor apparatus involving a reaction zone with inlet and outlet and containing an array of electrically conductive catalyst entities (susceptor entities) comprising pellets, rings, or rods containing a core externally coated with a substantially uniform and complete catalyst metal (e.g., platinum, platinum-iridium alloy, or platinum-rhodium alloy) wrap, coating, or surface impregnated, or containing the catalyst metal as a foam which are inductively heated to produce chemical product from a catalytic reaction. Such an apparatus is particularly useful in the catalytic generation of HCN at elevated temperatures.
A fluid phase reaction apparatus for producing a chemical product from a catalytic reaction that at least initially requires heat-input comprising a reaction zone having an inlet port and an outlet port, said zone containing an array of electrically conductive catalyst entities consisting of a core externally coated with a substantially uniform and complete catalyst metal or containing a catalytic metal as a foam and said catalyst entities being in close proximity to an induction heating device, an external source of alternating current electrical power connected to said induction heating device so as to create a region of high intensity field throughout said reaction zone, thereby heating said catalysts entities substantially uniformly.
A fluid phase reaction apparatus for producing a chemical product from a catalytic reaction that at least initially requires heat-input comprising an induction heating coil, an electrically non-conductive annular partition positioned concentrically within said induction coil, said partition defining a reaction zone containing a catalyst bed which comprises a three-dimensional array of electrically conductive catalyst entities consisting of a core externally coated with a substantially uniform and complete catalyst metal or containing a catalytic metal as a foam, an external source of alternating current electrical power connected to said induction heating coil so as to create a region of substantially uniform high intensity magnetic field within said reaction zone.
A fluid phase reaction apparatus for producing a chemical product from a reaction that at least initially requires heat-input comprising:
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