US3246957A - Apparatus for acetylene production by partial combustion of hydrocarbons - Google Patents

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US3246957A
US3246957A US23517062A US3246957A US 3246957 A US3246957 A US 3246957A US 23517062 A US23517062 A US 23517062A US 3246957 A US3246957 A US 3246957A
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    • C10G—CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES
    • C10G9/00—Thermal non-catalytic cracking, in the absence of hydrogen, of hydrocarbon oils
    • C10G9/34—Thermal non-catalytic cracking, in the absence of hydrogen, of hydrocarbon oils by direct contact with inert preheated fluids, e.g. with molten metals or salts
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  • My invention relates to the production of acetylene by partial combustion of gaseous hydrocarbons, particularly methane or its higher homologues, with oxygen.
  • the equipment used for such production comprises a mixer to which methane and oxygen, separately preheated, are supplied, and a reaction chamber wherein the methane burns in form of an inverted flame which is rapidly extinguished with a water jet.
  • a distributor is interposed. It consists of a properly cooled steel plate vertically traversed by numerous parallel tubes in which the gas flow has a speed higher than the speed of flame propagation.
  • the speed of gas in the zone closely above the top surface of the distributor will necessarily be lower than the speed of the flame propagation.
  • all of the gaseous masscontained in the mixing chamber may also become ignited, thus resulting in irreparable damages to the apparatus.
  • My invention essentially consists of providing a gas distributor, which separates the mixing chamber from the combustion chamber, so that the speed of gas upstream the distributor is higher than the speed of flame propagation, and is illustrated by the drawing.
  • Methane or a higher homolog thereof and oxygen, respectively preheated in heaters 1 and 2 are introduced from above to mixer 3, at a speed greater than that of flame propagation, so that in the event of ignition the flame could not remain in the tube but would be immediately blown down.
  • the distributor 4 is formed by two steel plates, which are preferably spherical, connected by numerous steel tubes 13; the top plate 9 has a smaller surface than the bottom plate 10. When the steel plates are spherical, the tubes connecting the two plates diverge.
  • the ratio between the diameter of the top and bottom plates is so calculated that the speed of gas near the top plate and in the connecting tubes is higher than the speed of flame propagation, whereas the speed of gas in the combustion chamber is much less than the speed of flame propagation.
  • TiJlS ratio preferably assumes values comprised within the following limits:
  • Water is circulated under pressure by pump 5 between the d1verging tubes, in order to ensure the cooling of the lower plates.
  • the cooling water after being heated is recycled through line 12 to storage tank 14 from where small quantities of steam are permitted to enter the oxygen preheater 2.
  • the plates need not be spherical but could be planar.
  • the following structures may be adopted: (a) a structure quite analogous to that described above but wherein the pipes for the outflow of the gas mixture project from the top plate of the distributor and the spaces between the pipes are filled with refractory; (b) another structure having steel pipes 13 embedded over their whole lengths in a suitable refractory whence neither the top metal plate nor the bottom metal plate are any longer needed: in that case the line 11 may be connected directly to the storage vessel 14, no cooling being any more required; (c) a further structure with which not only the top and bottom platesbut also the steel pipes 13 are dispensed with, the conduits for the gas mixture being provided in the very refractory; here too the line 11 leads directly to the storage vessel 14.
  • a small quantity of steam is added to the reacting gases.
  • the steam may be added to the oxygen and/ or methane prior to their reentry into preheaters 1 and 2 or into the mixer 33.
  • the quantity of steam may vary between 2 and 20 kg. per 100 Nm. of CH, although about 10 kg. is preferable.
  • the presence of steam also gives greater safety against self-ignition of the methane-oxygen mixture particularly when under pressure, thus reducing the probability of a premature gas combustion in the mixing chamber.
  • the technique generally used in the conventional acetylene production process for stabilizing the flame, consists in introducing small quantities of oxygen (secondary) through the cooled walls of the combustion chamber, near the reaction priming zone; but it is known that such a technique has the effect of greatly reducing the (a) methane-l-primary and secondary oxygen (b) methane-l-primary and secondary oxygen-l-steam (c) methane-i-primary oxygen and hydrogen-l-secondary oxygen are shown by the following proportions between the flow rates of the reactants employed and the respective flow rates of the reactants employed and the respective results obtained; wherein Nm. is cubic meters calculated at normal conditions:
  • an apparatus for the production of acetylene by the partial combustion of hydrocarbons with oxygen having a gas mixing chamber and a combustion chamber; a gas distributor interconnecting the gas mixing chamber and the combustion chamber, said gas distributor comprising a lower metalplate, an'upper metal plate and tubes of constant diameter interconnecting said plates for gas passage from the gas mixing chamber to the combustion chamber, the area of the upper of said metal plates being from 0.2 to 0.8 the area of the lower of said plates,
  • the apparatus of claim 1 which includes means for passing the steam, produced in the Water jacket, to the gas mixing chamber.
  • a gas distributor interconnecting the gas mixin-g chamber and the combustion chamber, said gas distributor comprising a lower metal plate, an upper metal plate and tubes of constant diameter interconnecting said plates for gas passage from the gas mixing chamber to the combustion chamber, the area of the upper of said metal plates being from 0.2 to 0.8 the area of lower of said plates, which are planar and parallel, said tubes being evenly spaced and diverging from the upper to the lower plates, a water jacket about the tubes and disposed between the plates for introducing water under pressure to cool said tubes and produce steam, a row of oxy-hydrogen burners at the lower of said plates to stabilize the flame produced by said partial combustion, and quench means downstream of said oxy-hydrogen burners for quenching said combustion.

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US3438741A (en) * 1966-08-25 1969-04-15 Monsanto Co Apparatus for flame reaction of hydrocarbons
US3689586A (en) * 1970-09-28 1972-09-05 Bernhard Busch Process for smooth operation of burner in production of acetylene-containing gas
US4952743A (en) * 1987-12-03 1990-08-28 Gaz De France Process and apparatus for the conversion of hydrocarbons
WO2007082820A1 (de) * 2006-01-13 2007-07-26 Basf Aktiengesellschaft Verfahren zur herstellung von acetylen durch partielle oxidation von kohlenwasserstoffen

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US1113171A (en) * 1913-01-08 1914-10-06 Gas And Oil Comb Company Apparatus for burning explosive gaseous mixtures.
US1773592A (en) * 1929-08-22 1930-08-19 Robert W Mcdaniel Hot-water heater and burner
US2520149A (en) * 1944-06-14 1950-08-29 Koppers Co Inc Process for producing olefins
US2719184A (en) * 1950-01-10 1955-09-27 Basf Ag Production of acetylene
US3069248A (en) * 1954-05-25 1962-12-18 Belge Produits Chimiques Sa Burner for hydrocarbons
US3019271A (en) * 1958-09-08 1962-01-30 Belge Produits Chimiques Sa Process and apparatus for treatment of hydrocarbons

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US3438741A (en) * 1966-08-25 1969-04-15 Monsanto Co Apparatus for flame reaction of hydrocarbons
US3689586A (en) * 1970-09-28 1972-09-05 Bernhard Busch Process for smooth operation of burner in production of acetylene-containing gas
US4952743A (en) * 1987-12-03 1990-08-28 Gaz De France Process and apparatus for the conversion of hydrocarbons
WO2007082820A1 (de) * 2006-01-13 2007-07-26 Basf Aktiengesellschaft Verfahren zur herstellung von acetylen durch partielle oxidation von kohlenwasserstoffen

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