Microchannel compression reactor

US9452408B2 · 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 10, 2013
• Grant date: Sep 27, 2016
• Expiry date: Jun 10, 2033

Classification

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

Abstract

A method of starting up one or more units, the method comprising the steps of: (a) starting up a first unit including a microchannel reactor housing a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst by initially feeding a carbon monoxide source and a hydrogen source to the first unit and through the microchannel reactor; (b) processing, within the microchannel reactor, at least a portion of the carbon monoxide source and the hydrogen source; (c) monitoring at least one of internal pressure, temperature, and concentration at least one of within the microchannel reactor and downstream from the microchannel reactor; (d) at least partially containing the microchannel reactor using a wall of a containment device, the wall cooperating with the microchannel reactor to delineate at least one of a first inlet cavity and a first outlet cavity of the microchannel reactor, where at least one of the first inlet cavity and the first outlet cavity is not in fluid communication with at least one of a second inlet cavity and a second outlet cavity; and, (e) using the containment device to reinforce the integrity of the microchannel reactor.