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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2008
Nathan A. Pawlak, Charlevoix, MI (US);
Robert W. Carr, Bloomington, MN (US);
Roger J. Grunch, Charlevoix, MI (US);
Nathan A. Pawlak, Charlevoix, MI (US);
Robert W. Carr, Bloomington, MN (US);
Roger J. Grunch, Charlevoix, MI (US);
Gas Technologies LLC, Walloon Lake, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for alkyl oxygenate (e.g., methanol) manufacture via partial oxidation of alkane (methane) uses an injectively-mixed backmixing reaction chamber in fluid communication with a tubular-flow reactor. Alkyl free radicals are induced in the backmixing reaction chamber prior to being fed through a flow-restriction baffle to the tubular-flow reactor. Injective intermixing of feed streams agitates the backmixing reaction chamber. In one embodiment, a variable position flow restriction baffle is axially moved to commensurately modify the backmixing reaction chamber and tubular-flow reactor volumes. In another embodiment, the tubular-flow reactor is quenched with a variable position quenching input. The method further provides for condensing the output stream from the reaction system in a condensing scrubber and also for recycling a portion of the scrubbed output stream to the reactor system.