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Grigorios Kolios

Andreas Bode

Otto Machhammer

Gerhard Olbert

Dirk Klingler

Matthias Kern

Jens Bernnat

Ulrike Wegerle

Bernd Zoels

Christian Schneider

Rene Koenig

Frederik Scheiff

Albena Kostova

Wolfgang Alois Hormuth

Friedrich Glenk

Hans-Juergen Maass

Marcus Guzmann

Volker Goeke

Alexander Weck

Goetz-Peter Schindler

Peter Pfab

Dieter Flick

Volker Göke

Karsten Büker

Carlos Tellaeche Herranz

Alireza Rezai

Stephan Andreas Schunk

Wilhelm Ruppel

Markus Weber

Hans-Jurgen Maas

Torsten Mäurer

Regina Benfer

Wolfgang Gerlinger

Gerrit Waters

Peter Resch

Heinrich Laib

Christopher Alec Anderlohr

Jasmina Kessel

Hagen Appel

Achim Wechsung

Hans-Jürgen Maass

Philipp Brueggemann

Florina Corina Patcas

Hans-Jörg Zander

Guido Wasserschaff

Nicolai Antweiler

Christian Baltes

Karsten Bueker

Alexandra Seeber

Sabine Schmidt

Sven Thate

Godwind Tafara Peter Mabande

Roland Bauer

Markus Weikl

Philipp Brüggemann

Jochen Götz

Andrea Gienger

Reinhold Höchst

Hans-Jurgen Mass

Aristides Morillo

Godwin Tafara Peter Mabande

Rene KÖNIG

Hans-Jürgen Maa

Hans-Jürgen Mass

Hans-Jürgen Maaß

Hans-Joerg Zander

A reactor for carrying out an endothermic reaction, in particular a high-temperature reaction, in which a product gas is obtained from a feed gas, wherein: the reactor surrounds a reactor interior; the reactor is configured to provide a reactor bed in a reaction zone of the reactor interior, which reactor bed comprises a large number of solid material particles; the reactor is also configured to guide the feed gas into the reaction zone; in order to heat the feed gas, the reactor is designed to heat the solid material particles in the reaction zone such that, by transferring heat from the solid material particles to the feed gas, the feed gas in the reaction zone can be heated to a reaction temperature in order to participate as a starting product in the endothermic reaction for producing the product gas.

Reactor for endothermic high-temperature reactions

A method of continuously performing one or more heat-consuming processes, where at least one heat-consuming process is electrically heated. The maximum temperature in the reaction zone of the heat-consuming process is higher than 500° C., at least 70% of products of the heat-consuming process are continuously processed further downstream and/or fed to a local energy carrier network, and the electrical energy required for the heat-consuming process is drawn from an external power grid and from at least one local power source. The local power source is fed by at least one local energy carrier network and by products from the heat-consuming process. The local energy carrier network stores natural gas, naphtha, hydrogen, synthesis gas, and/or steam as energy carrier, and has a total capacity of at least 5 GWh. The local energy carrier network is fed with at least one further product and/or by-product from at least one further chemical process.

Electrically heated, hybrid high-temperature method

An apparatus contains at least one pressure-rated apparatus shell and at least one modular framework system containing ceramic fiber composite materials and arranged within the apparatus shell. A modular lining apparatus includes the modular framework system and refractory bricks. The apparatus can be used for high-temperature reactors, especially electrically heated high-temperature reactors.

Device comprising a pressure-bearing device shell and an interior scaffolding system

The present invention relates to an electrically heatable packed pressure-bearing apparatus for conducting endothermic reactions having an upper (), middle () and lower () apparatus section, where at least one pair of electrodes () in a vertical arrangement is installed in the middle section () and all electrodes are disposed in an electrically conductive solid-state packing (), the upper and lower apparatus sections have a specific conductivity of 105 S/m to 108 S/m, and the middle apparatus section is electrically insulated against the solid-state packing, wherein the upper and lower apparatus sections are electrically insulated from the middle apparatus section, the upper electrode is connected via the upper apparatus section and the lower electrodes via the lower apparatus section or the electrodes are each connected via one or more connecting elements () that are in electrical contact with these sections and the ratio of the cross-sectional areas of the upper and lower electrode to the cross-sectional area of the respective current-conducting connecting element or, without use of a connecting element, the ratio of the cross-sectional area of the upper and lower electrode to the cross-sectional area of the respective current-conducting apparatus section is 0.1 to 10.

Solids-packed apparatus for performance of endothermic reactions with direct electrical heating

The present invention relates to a process for conducting endothermic gas phase or gas-solid reactions, wherein the endothermic reaction is conducted in a production phase in a first reactor zone, the production zone, which is at least partly filled with solid particles, where the solid particles are in the form of a fixed bed, of a moving bed and in sections/or in the form of a fluidized bed, and the product-containing gas stream is drawn off from the production zone in the region of the highest temperature level plus/minus 200 K and the product-containing gas stream is guided through a second reactor zone, the heat recycling zone, which at least partly comprises a fixed bed, where the heat from the product-containing gas stream is stored in the fixed bed, and, in the subsequent purge step, a purge gas is guided through the production zone and the heat recycling zone in the same flow direction, and, in a heating zone disposed between the production zone and the heat recycling zone, the heat required for the endothermic reaction is introduced into the product-containing gas stream and into the purge stream or into the purge stream, and then, in a regeneration phase, a gas is passed through the two reactor zones in the reverse flow direction and the production zone is heated up; the present invention further relates to a structured reactor comprising three zones, a production zone containing solid particles, a heating zone and a heat recycling zone containing a fixed bed, wherein the solid particles and the fixed bed consist of different materials.

Method and device for carrying out endothermic gas phase-solid or gas-solid reactions

A method for producing synthesis gas may involve introducing a hydrocarbon-containing coke-oven gas and a carbon dioxide-containing converter gas into a first reaction zone where hydrogen present in the hydrocarbon-containing coke-oven gas reacts at least partly with carbon dioxide to form water, which reacts thermally with hydrocarbon to form synthesis gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The method may further involve introducing an oxygen-containing gas in a second reaction zone, and using the oxygen-containing gas and some hydrogen from the first reaction zone to produce thermal energy. Still further, the method may involve supplying the thermal energy produced in the second reaction zone to the first reaction zone.

Method for producing synthesis gas

The present invention relates to a gastight multilayer composite tube having a heat transfer coefficient of &#x3e;500 W/m/K and comprising at least two layers, namely a layer of nonporous monolithic oxide ceramic and a layer of oxidic fiber composite ceramic, a connecting piece comprising at least one metallic gas-conducting conduit which in the longitudinal direction of the composite tube overlaps in a region at least two ceramic layers, where the one ceramic layer comprises a nonporous monolithic ceramic and the other ceramic layer comprises a fiber composite ceramic, and also the use of the multilayer composite tube as reaction tube for endothermic reactions, radiation tubes, flame tubes or rotary tubes.

Gas-tight, heat-permeable multilayer ceramic composite tube

The invention relates to a method of carrying out heat-consuming processes, wherein the total energy required averaged over a year for the heat-consuming process originates from at least two different energy sources, where one of the energy sources is an electric energy source whose power varies in the range from 0 to 100% of the total power required, and three different energy modes can individually provide the total power required for the heat-consuming process: (i) exclusively electric energy, (ii) a mixture of electric energy and at least one further nonelectric energy source or (iii) exclusively nonelectric energy, where the changeover time in which the change from one energy mode to another energy mode is completed is not more than 30 minutes.

Method for performing endothermic processes

The invention relates to a process for utilizing a hydrocarbon-comprising and/or carbon dioxide-comprising coproduct gas, accompanying gas and/or biogas, wherein hydrocarbon-comprising and/or carbon dioxide-comprising coproduct gas, accompanying gas and/or biogas is introduced into a reaction space and the multicomponent mixture comprised in the coproduct gas, accompanying gas and/or biogas is converted in a high-temperature zone at temperatures of more than 1000&#xb0; C. and in the presence of a carrier into a product gas mixture which comprises more than 95% by volume of CO, CO, H, HO, CHand Nand optionally into a carbon-comprising solid which is deposited to an extent of at least 75% by weight, based on the total mass of the carbon-comprising solid, on the carrier where the flow velocity of the gas mixture of coproduct gas, accompanying gas and/or biogas in the reaction zone is less than 20 m/s.

Process for utilizing blast furnace gases, associated gases and/or biogases

The invention relates to a process for producing synthesis gas () in which hydrocarbon () is decomposed thermally in a first reaction zone () to hydrogen and carbon, and hydrogen formed is passed from the first reaction zone (Z) into a second action zone (Z) in order to be reacted therein with carbon dioxide () to give water and carbon monoxide. The characteristic feature here is that energy required for the thermal decomposition of the hydrocarbon is supplied to the first reaction zone (Z) from the second reaction zone (Z).

Process for producing synthesis gas

The invention relates to a process for producing synthesis gas, in which carbon and hydrogen are obtained from hydrocarbon by thermal decomposition. At least a portion of the carbon obtained by the thermal decomposition is reacted, and at least a portion of the hydrogen obtained is reacted with carbon dioxide by a reverse water-gas shift reaction to give carbon monoxide and water. Carbon obtained by the thermal hydrocarbon decomposition is used as fuel in a power plant operation wherein the carbon is combusted to produce electrical power, and carbon dioxide formed in the combustion of the carbon is used in the reverse water-gas shift reaction.

Process for producing synthesis gas and electrical energy

The invention relates to a process for the parallel preparation of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and a carbon-comprising product, wherein one or more hydrocarbons are thermally decomposed and at least part of the pyrolysis gas formed is taken off from the reaction zone of the decomposition reactor at a temperature of from 800 to 1400&#xb0; C. and reacted with carbon dioxide to form a gas mixture comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen (synthesis gas).

Parallel preparation of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and a carbon-comprising product

The invention relates to a process for parallel preparation of hydrogen and one or more carbonaceous products, in which hydrocarbons are introduced into a reaction space (R) and decomposed thermally to carbon and hydrogen in the presence of carbon-rich pellets (W). It is a feature of the invention that at least a portion of the thermal energy required for the hydrocarbon decomposition is introduced into the reaction space (R) by means of a gaseous heat carrier.

Method for the parallel production of hydrogen and carbon-containing products

Process for the production of synthesis gas (), in which methane and carbon dioxide () are introduced into a reaction space (R) and reacted in the presence of a solid (W) at elevated temperatures to give hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Methane and carbon dioxide are passed through a carbon-containing granular material (W) and reacted in a high-temperature zone (H).

Process for production of synthesis gas

The invention relates to a process for the autothermal gas-phase dehydrogenation of a hydrocarbon-comprising gas stream by means of an oxygen-comprising gas stream over a heterogeneous catalyst configured as a monolith to give a reaction gas mixture and regeneration of the catalyst in a reactor in the form of a cylinder or prism, wherein the reactor is operated alternately in the production mode of the autothermal gas-phase dehydrogenation and in the regeneration mode.

Continuous process for carrying out autothermal gas-phase dehydrogenations

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