Tubular reactor with jet impingement heat transfer

US8409521B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Bo Jin · Orefield, US
• Robert Roger Broekhuis · Sugar Land, US
• Xiaoyi He · Orefield, US
• Shankar Nataraj · Allentown, US
• William Robert Licht · Allentown, US
• Diwakar Garg · Emmaus, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 22, 2011
• Grant date: Apr 2, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 6, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/52
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A tubular reactor for producing a product mixture in a tubular reactor where the tubular reactor comprises an internal catalytic insert with cup-shaped structures having orifices for forming fluid jets for impinging the fluid on the tube wall. Jet impingement is used to improve heat transfer between the fluid in the tube and the tube wall in a non-adiabatic reactor. The tubular reactor and method may be used for endothermic reactions such as steam methane reforming and for exothermic reactions such as methanation.