Packed-bed tubular reactor for heterogeneous exothermic or endothermic catalytic reactions

US9890333B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ENI S.P.A. · IT

Inventors

• Gianpiero Groppi · Segrate, IT
• Enrico Tronconi · Arcore, IT
• Carlo Giorgio Visconti · Pieve Emanuele, IT
• Andrea Tasso · Paullo, IT
• Roberto Zennaro · Venezia, IT

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 2, 2014
• Grant date: Feb 13, 2018
• Expiry date: Sep 2, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2208/00884
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A reactor for Fischer-Tropsch reaction effected in a three-phase system essentially consisting of a gaseous reagent phase, a liquid reacted phase and a solid catalytic phase, wherein the solid catalytic phase is composed of packed bodies encaged in at least one open-cell foam structure with a high thermal conductivity.