Process for producing liquid and, optionally, gaseous products from gaseous reactants
US5844006A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 27, 1996 |
| Grant date | Dec 1, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 27, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB01J2219/0011
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A process for producing liquid and, optionally, gaseous products from gaseous reactants comprises feeding gaseous reactants into a slurry bed of solid particles suspended in a liquid; allowing the reactants to react as they pass upwardly through the slurry bed, thereby to form liquid and, optionally, gaseous products; and separating liquid product from the solid particles by passing, in a filtration zone within the slurry bed, liquid product through a filtration medium in a first direction, so that a cake of the solid particles forms on the filtration medium. The passage of liquid product through the filtering medium is interrupted. The filtering medium is then backflushed by passing a flushing fluid through the filtering medium in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, for at least portions of the periods that the liquid product passage is interrupted, thereby to dislodge the cake from the filtering medium.
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