Multi-level tubular reactor with vertically spaced segments

US7868130B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Eastman Chemical Company · US

Inventors

• Thomas Lloyd Yount · Kingsport, US
• Bruce Roger DeBruin · Kingsport, US
• Michael Paul Ekart · Kingsport, US
• Larry Cates Windes · Kingsport, US
• David Allen Sliger · Jonesborough, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 12, 2007
• Grant date: Jan 11, 2011
• Expiry date: Feb 26, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2219/1943
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A multi-level tubular reactor operable to facilitate a chemical reaction in a reaction medium flowing therethrough. The tubular reactor can include a plurality of horizontally elongated and vertically spaced reactor segments coupled to and extending outwardly from a common header. One or more of the reactor segments can contain a tray that divides the internal volume of the reactor segment into upper and lower chambers. The reaction medium can flow away from the header in the upper chambers and back to the header in the lower chambers.