Conocophillips Company

Chien-Ping Pan

Harold A Wright

Gloria I Straguzzi

David M Minahan

Vincent H Melquist

Stephen R Landis

Guy H Lewis

David H Anderson

Cemal Ercan

Phillipp R Ellison

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for producing synthesis gas and higher hydrocarbons from light hydrocarbons and molecular oxygen as well as the higher hydrocarbons produced by the disclosed methods and apparatus. The methods and apparatus disclosed utilize components comprising nickel and nickel alloys.

Partial oxidation reactors and syngas coolers using nickel-containing components

A method of partially oxidizing a feed gas comprises providing a reactor containing a catalyst, providing a gas distributor comprising a body having a plurality of channels therethrough and a plurality of outlets from said channels for distributing gas across the catalyst, feeding the feed gas and the oxygen-containing gas into the gas distributor and allowing the feed gas and the oxygen-containing gas to flow through the gas distributor and out through the outlets into contact with the catalyst. The gas distributor preferably comprises a micro-channel gas distributor, which can be assembled by providing a plurality of etched plates defining flow channels, and stacking and fusing the plates. The reactant gases can be mixed within the gas distributor or maintained separately until they have exited the gas distributor.

Utilization of micro-channel gas distributor to distribute unreacted feed gas into reactors

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