Gas generator for catalytically reacting liquid, hydrocarbon containing fuel to be evaporated with an oxygen containing gas at elevated temperature to form a fuel gas, particularly for supplying internal-combustion engines

US4236899A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Peter Gulden · Erlangen, DE
• Friedrich Kozdon · Spardorf, DE
• Eugen S. de Bucs · Erlangen, DE
• Walter Kusebauch · Erlangen, DE
• Helmut Forster · Fairview Avenue, DE
• Mathias Schnicke · Uttenreuth, DE
• Heinz Christoph · Eckental, DE
• Berthold Pfadenhauer · Nuremberg, DE
• Gerald Edinger · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 20, 1978
• Grant date: Dec 2, 1980
• Expiry date: Sep 20, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C10G11/22
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A gas generator which comprises a heat resistant housing and a reaction chamber which is centrally arranged therein and contains a catalytic charge, with an inlet opening for the reactants and an outlet opening for the fuel gas is used for catalytically reacting liquid, hydrocarbon containing fuel to be evaporated with an oxygen containing gas at elevated temperature to form a fuel gas. The housing consists of a lower part and a removable cover and the reaction chamber including the catalytic charge is replaceable. The fuel and/or the oxygen containing gas is fed to the reaction chamber for preheating and evaporating, respectively, via a system of tubes which is arranged between the reaction chamber and the lower part of the housing and is run around the reaction chamber in helical fashion.