Conocophillips Company

Guy H Lewis

Harold A Wright

David M Minahan

David H Anderson

Gloria I Straguzzi

Vincent H Melquist

Stephen R Landis

Cemal Ercan

Chien-Ping Pan

Jamie D Lucas

Dale R McIntyre

Phillipp R Ellison

Embodiments include methods and apparatus for mixing feedgases and producing synthesis gas. The apparatus includes a vessel containing a mixing system comprising one or more channels and a reaction zone downstream of the mixing system. A first feedgas and a second feedgas are separately injected into different injection portions of each channel, such that the second feedgas is injected in an acute direction into the first feedgas flowstream. The injected feedgases thereafter mix in a mixing portion of the channel. The mixing portion of each channel may have a reduced cross-sectional area so as to increase the total velocity of the feedgases while they mix. A feedgas mixture exits each channel of the mixing system to feed the reaction zone where it gets converted. Preferred embodiments include mixing Owith a hydrocarbon gas and converting the mixture in a catalytic reaction zone to produce synthesis gas.

Compact mixer for the mixing of gaseous hydrocarbon and gaseous oxidants

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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Ponca City, OK, United States of America

Guy H Lewis