Microchannel compression reactor

US8460411B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Velocys, Inc. · US

Inventors

• William Allen Rogers · Union, US
• Christopher Paul Weil · Pickerington, US
• Robert Dwayne Litt · Westerville, US
• Ronald Chester Pasadyn · Missouri City, US
• George Bradley Smith · Rock Hill, US
• Charles Robert Miele · Columbus, US
• Thomas Peter Forte · Columbus, US
• Jimmy Glen Pelham · Bartlesville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 21, 2010
• Grant date: Jun 11, 2013
• Expiry date: Jun 21, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/0335
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process unit comprising: (a) a first microchannel module comprising: (i) a first unit operation including microchannels, in which at least a portion of a unit operation takes place, adapted to be in fluid communication with a first inlet stream and a first outlet stream, and (ii) a second unit operation including microchannels adapted to be in thermal communication with the first unit operation, the second unit operation adapted to be in fluid communication with a second inlet stream and a second outlet stream; and (b) a pressurized vessel at least partially containing the first microchannel module adapted to be concurrently occupied by a compressive medium in thermal communication with the first microchannel module.