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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2008
Steffen Jancker, Gummerbach, DE;
Thomas Paul Von Kossak-glowczewski, Gummersbach, DE;
Joachim Wolff, Amsterdam, NL;
Steffen Jancker, Gummerbach, DE;
Thomas Paul Von Kossak-Glowczewski, Gummersbach, DE;
Joachim Wolff, Amsterdam, NL;
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A gasification reactor vessel comprising a combustion chamber in the upper half of the vessel, provided with a product gas outlet at the bottom end of the combustion chamber, at least two burner openings are present in the wall of the combustion chamber, which burner openings are located at the same horizontal level and are positioned diametrical relative to each other and wherein in each burner opening a burner is present, wherein between the wall of the combustion chamber and the wall of vessel an annular space is provided, wherein the wall of the combustion chamber comprises an arrangement of interconnected tubes (vertical arranged or helical coiled), wherein the product gas outlet at the bottom end of the combustion chamber is fluidly connected to a dip-tube, which partly is submerged in a water bath located at the lower end of the reactor vessel, and wherein at the upper end of the dip-tube means are present to add a quenching medium to the, in use, downwardly flowing mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.