Reactor for conducting exothermic equilibrium reactions

US10898874B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude · FR

Inventors

• Frank Castillo-Welter · Friedrichsdorf, DE
• Stephane Haag · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Robert Frind · Dresden, DE
• Timm Schuhmann · Bensheim, DE
• Andreas Ochs · Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, DE
• Marc Wagner · Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, FR
• Solene Valentin · Meudon, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 26, 2018
• Grant date: Jan 26, 2021
• Expiry date: Apr 26, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C31/04
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A reactor for conducting exothermic equilibrium reactions, especially for the performance of methanol synthesis by heterogeneously catalysed conversion of synthesis gas, is proposed, which enables readjustment and hence optimization of the reaction conditions along the longitudinal coordinate of the reactor. For this purpose, in accordance with the invention, the reactor is divided into a multitude of series-connected reaction cells, each of which comprises a preheating zone, a cooled reaction zone, one or more cooling zones and a deposition zone for condensable reaction products. In this way, the reaction conditions are adjustable to the respective, local composition of the reaction mixture and variable over the reactor length.