Feeder for coal-gasification reactor

US4047901A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Metallgesellschaft AG · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Baron
• Herbert Bierbach
• Carl Hafke · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Karlheinz Zolzer

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 13, 1976
• Grant date: Sep 13, 1977
• Expiry date: Aug 13, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C10J2300/0976
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A device for feeding granular and dust coal to a coal-gasifying reactor which operates under a pressure of 5 to 150 bars. A stationary housing is connected to the coal inlet of the reactor and a lock chamber member is rotatedly mounted therein. The lock chamber member is movable between coal-receiving position and a coal-discharging position. The lock chamber member has at least one chamber which is open only at one end and contains a displacing device which extends approximately to the entrance of the chamber. The displacing device substantially prevents an ingress of product gas into the chamber when in the discharge position.