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Reactor unit for a catalytic chemical reaction, especially for a catalyzing methanol reformer

US6180081A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

XCELLSiS GmbH · DE

Inventors

Thomas Poschmann · Ulm, DE
Steffen Wieland · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 25, 1999
Grant date	Jan 30, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 25, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02P20/52
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A reactor unit includes a monolithic block with several parallel reaction chamber lengthwise channels into which a reaction starting product can flow, which contain a suitable reaction catalyst material, and which are delimited externally by membrane walls for the selective separation of a desired reaction component from the reaction end product. A catalytic burner is accommodated in at least some of the lengthwise channels.

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