Apparatus for cooling and scrubbing a flow of syngas and method of assembling

US7846226B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Thomas Frederick Leininger · Chino Hills, US
• Allyson Joy Jimenez-Huyke · Houston, US
• Judeth Brannon Corry · Houston, US
• Fulton Jose Lopez · Clifton Park, US
• Aaron John Avagliano · Houston, US
• John Saunders Stevenson · Yorba Linda, US
• Lien-Yan Chen · Spring, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 13, 2008
• Grant date: Dec 7, 2010
• Expiry date: Apr 29, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49826
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method of assembling a spray quench apparatus is provided. The method includes coupling a first end of an exit tube to a quench chamber such that the exit tube end is in flow communication with the quench chamber, coupling at least one spray nozzle to an opposite second end of the exit tube such that water emitted from the spray nozzle fills the exit tube and forms a film of water across an inner surface of the exit tube, coupling a water source to the quench chamber for providing a substantially continuous water film along an inner surface of the quench chamber, and coupling at least one discharge apparatus to the quench chamber for providing water spray into the quench chamber, wherein the water of the water film and water sprays drains into a water sump.