Process for the catalytic gasification of solid fluids with steam

US4508543A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventor

• Siegfried Peter · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 13, 1979
• Grant date: Apr 2, 1985
• Expiry date: Apr 13, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C10J2300/0986
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed is a process for gasifying solid carbon fuels with steam. After forming a supersaturated solution of catalyst in steam the pressure is reduced to reaction pressure.