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| 8187547 | Methods and systems for controlling polymer particle size Techniques are provided for producing polymer particles of a size just slightly larger than the size of polymer fines. The technique may prevent or limit the occurrence of reactor fouls associated with large polymer particles. The technique also may provide a greate... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8178051 | Apparatus and process for hydrogenation of a silicon tetrahalide and silicon to the trihalosilane A reactor for hydrogenation of a silicon tetrahalide and metallurgical grade silicon to trihalosilane includes a bed of metallurgical silicon particles, one or more gas entry ports, one or more solids entry ports, one or more solids drains and one or more ports for ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8168123 | Fluidized bed reactor for production of high purity silicon Methods and apparatus for the production of high purity silicon including a fluidized bed reactor with one or more protective layers deposited on an inside surface of the fluidized bed reactor. The protective layer may be resistant to corrosion by fluidizing gases a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8128878 | Gas-phase polymerization of alpha-olefin A method for preparing polyolefin from alpha-olefin with high productivity using an internal circulating fluidized bed polymerization reactor is disclosed. The method for gas-phase polymerization of alpha-olefin comprising the steps of: supplying circulation gas inc... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8124020 | Apparatus for preventing metal catalyzed coking A process and apparatus is described in which a sulfiding agent is added to a catalytic conversion reactor to prevent metal catalyzed coking. The catalytic reactor may be downstream from a first fluid catalytic cracking reactor that provides C10— hydroc... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8105541 | Reactor system and method therefore A reactor system includes a fluidized bed reactor with a fluidized zone having sorbent particles and catalyst particles. The sorbent particles are sized to become entrained in a product stream from the fluidized zone and the catalyst particles are sized to gravimetr... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8097216 | Fluidizing a population of catalyst particles having a low catalyst fines content A process and apparatus for fluidizing a population of catalyst particles having a low catalyst fines content includes a fluidized bed reactor which includes a plurality of catalyst particles in the reactor wherein the catalyst particles having a d2 value... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8088334 | Polymerization process and associated apparatus There are disclosed polymerization processes and associated apparatuses. The polymerization processes involve both making a polymeric material in a fluidized bed reactor having a feed distributor and catching a spitwad with a spitwad catcher, and the apparatuses are... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8071033 | Horizontal fluidised bed reactor A reactor for contacting a fluid with a granular solid, the reactor including: a reactor housing including a reaction zone in which the fluid and the granular solid are contacted together; a granular solids inlet adapted to deliver a bed of granular solids into the ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8007728 | System, apparatus, and process for cracking a hydrocarbon feed One exemplary embodiment can be a fluid catalytic cracking system. The fluid catalytic cracking system can include a reaction zone including a riser having a top and a bottom adapted to receive spent catalyst at a first elevation and regenerated catalyst at a second... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7998421 | Particle treatment in an expanded toroidal bed reactor A method of processing a fluid and/or a particulate material, the method comprising the steps of: (a) introducing the particulate material into a chamber; (b) providing a flow of fluid into said chamber for entraining the particulate material; and (c) removing proce... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7955566 | Fluid bed granulator In order to produce granules granulometrically polidispersed in a very little range, a fluid bed granulation process of the type comprising the steps of preparing a fluid bed of seeds (S1) of the substance to be granulated, having a free surface (P) substanti... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7955565 | Gas-phase fluidized-bed reactor, multivessel polymerization reactor and process for producing olefin polymer The gas-phase fluidized-bed reactor conducting reaction by feeding a gas, through a gas-distribution plate located at the lower part of a reaction vessel, into a fluidized bed formed on the gas-distribution plate, wherein the reaction vessel is made up so as to have... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7943102 | Method for the production of formaldehyde A method for formaldehyde production through catalytic oxidation of methanol, comprising the steps of feeding to a first oxidation catalytic bed (2) a gas flow comprising methanol and oxygen at a predetermined crossing linear flow rate, obtaining at the outle... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7897116 | Composite internals for a circulating fluidized bed reactor The present invention relates to a composite internal in a circulating fluidized bed reactor, comprising guide plates, disturbing plates and 2 to 30 round tubes, wherein the guide plate (3) is secured with its one side to the round tube (1), and the di... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7829030 | Fluidizing a population of catalyst particles having a low catalyst fines content The present invention relates to processes for fluidizing a population of catalyst particles that are depleted of catalyst fines. In one embodiment, the process includes providing a plurality of catalyst particles in the reactor, wherein the catalyst particles have ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7767161 | Fluidized bed apparatus for batch-by-batch or continuous process control and method for operating a fluidized bed apparatus A fluidized bed apparatus for batch-by-batch or continuous process control is provided that allows the processes in the fluidization region to be influenced as desired, especially in terms of material movement and dwell time. The fluidized bed apparatus is formed fr... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7727484 | Fluid bed apparatus module and method of changing a first module for a second module in a fluid bed apparatus A fluid bed apparatus module (1) comprises an outer wall enclosing a processing chamber (9) and has a lower flange connection (4) and an upper flange connection (5), the lower flange connection being adapted to connection with a flange co... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7718138 | Device for introducing gas into a fluidised bed and a process therefor The present invention relates to a device and a process for introducing gas into a fluidised bed reactor having at least one gas inlet pipe (2, 3) located underneath and/or above the fluidised bed for introducing gas into the fluidised bed, characterized in t... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7718139 | Process and apparatus for olefin polymerization in a fluidized bed reactor A process and apparatus for gas phase polymerization of olefins in a fluidized bed reactor are disclosed. The process and apparatus employ a vertically oriented fines ejector in order to reduce fouling and reactor downtime. ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7678342 | Riser reactor for fluidized catalytic conversion A riser reactor for fluidized catalytic conversion process consists of a prelift zone, a first reaction zone, a second reaction zone with enlarged diameter, an outlet zone with reduced diameter along coaxial direction form bottom to top, and the end of the outlet zo... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7655192 | Method and apparatus for discharging polymerization reactors A method and an apparatus of discharging polymer from a continuously operated gas phase reactor, wherein at least one monomer is polymerized in a bed containing active catalyst formed by catalyst and polymer particles suspended in a fluid, the bed defining a fluidiz... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7651668 | Production method and production device for carbon nano structure A material gas and a catalyst are introduced through a material supplying tube path and a catalyst supplying tube path together with a carrier gas into a reactor equipped on its outer periphery with a heat applicator for thermally decomposing the material gas. The r... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7638102 | Fluid flow inversion chamber for feed spray nozzles in FCC unit risers A fluid flow inversion chamber comprises a spray nozzle (3) which has a coaxial configuration of feed flow (12) and steam flow (11) streams capable of providing increased contact of the two streams within the reaction zone, and, as a consequence... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7611676 | Method for producing gas turbine fuel, and method and system for generating electric power by gas turbine In a method for producing gas turbine fuel through the step of modifying heavy fuel oil with the use of an asphaltene-insoluble solvent, the utilization factor of the heavy fuel oil usable as gas turbine fuel is increased by making asphaltene selectively removable. ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7601303 | Gaseous phase fluidized-bed reactor Gas-phase fluidized-bed reactor for polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers, comprising a reactor chamber (1) in the form of a vertical tube, if desired a calming zone (2) following the upper section of the reactor chamber, a circulation gas li... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7547418 | Fluidized-bed reactor system A fluidized-bed reactor comprising a chamber defining a hollow interior region and having a lower surface; a first input for introducing a contaminated gas into the hollow interior region; a plurality of catalyst nanoparticles within the hollow interior region and l... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7517500 | Process and apparatus for upgrading FCC product with additional reactor with thorough mixing A process and apparatus are disclosed contacting hydrocarbon feed with catalyst in a reactor vessel under conditions more vigorous than bubbling bed conditions and preferably fast fluidized flow conditions. The vigorous conditions assure thorough mixing of catalyst ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7442345 | Reactor apparatus A new reactor apparatus that can be used to carry out chemical reactions in a fluidized catalyst bed at high temperatures with reduced afterburning or other undesirable downstream side reactions. ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438863 | Multi-catalyst injection system The invention is a multi-catalyst injection system. In one embodiment, the system comprises a plurality of catalyst storage regions associated with a vessel and a metering device associated with the vessel. The metering device is configured to provide a metric indic... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7431894 | Catalyst withdrawal apparatus for regulating catalyst inventory in a fluid catalyst cracking unit A catalyst withdrawal apparatus and method for regulating catalyst inventory in a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst (FCC) unit is provided. In one embodiment, a catalyst withdrawal apparatus for removing catalyst from a FCC unit includes a pressure vessel having a m... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7414166 | Minimizing catalyst backflow in fluidized bed reactors This invention provides feed introduction devices, and processes for using same, which minimize catalyst clogging. In particular, the invention is to a feed introduction device having a first end in fluid communication with a feed source, a second end in fluid commu... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414098 | Gas-phase catalytic polymerization of olefins Process for the gas-phase catalytic polymerization of olefins carried out in a plurality of interconnected polymerization zones, the process comprising feeding one or more monomers to said polymerization zones in the presence of a catalyst under reaction conditions ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7413713 | Reaction apparatus and mixing system A reaction apparatus comprises a first supply flow channel having a fine flow channel cross sectional area for a liquid pressurized by a pressurizing device, a gas supply flow channel having a fine flow channel cross sectional area for supplying a gas, a two-phase f... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7399898 | Simulated moving bed adsorptive separation process for preventing increase in pressure drop and system thereof Disclosed is a simulated moving bed (SMB) adsorptive separation system in which at least one component of a fluid mixture is brought into contact with a solid adsorbent and the adsorbed component is desorbed with a desorbent, wherein the improvement comprises an ine... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7399450 | Cyclone layer reactor A fluidized-bed reactor is disclosed. The fluidized-bed reactor steadies the gas flow through the fluidized bed chamber of the reactor. The swirl chamber of the reactor consists of a conical housing in which a conical insert is also situated. This creates an annular... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7396513 | Liquid contacting of post-quench effluent vapor streams from oxygenate to olefins conversion to capture catalyst fines A process is provided for converting oxygenate to olefins from a fluidized bed reactor which comprises removal of catalyst fines from a quenched vaporous effluent by contacting with a liquid low in catalyst fines content, e.g., oxygenate feedstock, or by-product wat... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7390337 | Fuel gasification system The present invention provides a fuel gasification furnace including a gasification chamber (1) for fluidizing a high-temperature fluidizing medium therein to form a gasification chamber fluidized bed having an interface, and for gasifying a fuel in the gasif... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7370847 | Grid plate bubble cap for reaction vessel used in hydroconversion of fossil fuels A catalytic hydrocracking reactor vessel includes enhanced components for the conversion of a hydrogen gas and fossil fuel feedstream to light liquid hydrocarbons. The reactor vessel comprises one or more of a reactor cup riser with a helical cyclonic separator cond... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367996 | Heat transfer optimization in multi shelled reformers A hydrocarbon fuel processing reactor for generating a hydrogen-enriched reformate from hydrocarbons is disclosed. A plurality of shells are arranged coaxially having a gap defined between each of the successive shells, thereby forming a plurality of coaxial zones. ... | 05/06/2008 |
