Melting gasifier

US4846449A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Korf Engineering GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rolf Hauk · Düsseldorf, DE
• Peter Lang · Gelnhausen, DE
• Gero Papst · Kaarst, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 22, 1987
• Grant date: Jul 11, 1989
• Expiry date: Dec 22, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P10/134
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A novel melting gasifier (7) is disclosed, in which material at least largely comprising metal is melted in a fluidized bed. The latter is maintained by oxygen-containing gas laterally injected through approximately equidistant nozzles in the lower part of the melting gasifier. A carbon carrier and from above the material to be melted are also introduced into the melting gasifier. Over at least part of the fluidized bed height, the gasifier has a horizontal cross-section, which has different dimensions in two directions perpendicular to one another. The nozzles can project by different amounts into the gasifier vessel.