Apparatus for relieving a lock chamber for ash from pressure

US4983188A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Metallgesellschaft AG · DE

Inventors

• Horst Mielke · Neu-Isenburg, DE
• Gerhard Schmitt · Bensheim, DE
• Peter Herbert · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 16, 1990
• Grant date: Jan 8, 1991
• Expiry date: Mar 16, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C10J3/52
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The lock container is connected to a reactor, which serves to gasify or to combust solid fuels. The lock container serves to remove ash from the reactor. A pressure of at least 2 bars prevails in the reactor. The lock container is pressurized and pressure-relieved in alternation. The pressure relief line communicates with a filter element, which is permeable to gas and substantially impermeable to solids and is disposed within the lock container. When the lock container is filled to the usual level during a pressure relief, at least one half of the filter element is surrounded by ash. The filter element may be tubular.