Process to transport acetylene

US5531075A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Messer Griesheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hartmut Behringer · Nidderau, DE
• Siegfried Pottkamper · Hürth, DE
• Hans-Werner Stephan · Cologne, DE
• Gerrit Marcks · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 19, 1994
• Grant date: Jul 2, 1996
• Expiry date: Dec 19, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S220/901
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In a process to transport acetylene which is dissolved in a solvent in a pressurized, insulated tank, the acetylene-to-solvent mass ratio of the solution is 0.30 at the maximum, whereby the solution has a temperature of up to -55.degree. C. [-67.degree. F.]. The surface of the solution in the tank is covered by a multilayer configuration consisting of pieces of floating material.