US39606A - Improvement in the manufacture of illuminating-gas - Google Patents
Improvement in the manufacture of illuminating-gas Download PDFInfo
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- 150000002430 hydrocarbons Chemical class 0.000 description 16
- OKTJSMMVPCPJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N carbon Chemical compound [C] OKTJSMMVPCPJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 12
- 229910052799 carbon Inorganic materials 0.000 description 10
- 239000004215 Carbon black (E152) Substances 0.000 description 8
- 238000000034 method Methods 0.000 description 6
- 239000000126 substance Substances 0.000 description 6
- 238000000354 decomposition reaction Methods 0.000 description 4
- 238000004821 distillation Methods 0.000 description 4
- 241000976924 Inca Species 0.000 description 2
- 239000003610 charcoal Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000003245 coal Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000003921 oil Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000003415 peat Substances 0.000 description 2
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
- C10J—PRODUCTION OF PRODUCER GAS, WATER-GAS, SYNTHESIS GAS FROM SOLID CARBONACEOUS MATERIAL, OR MIXTURES CONTAINING THESE GASES; CARBURETTING AIR OR OTHER GASES
- C10J3/00—Production of combustible gases containing carbon monoxide from solid carbonaceous fuels
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- niyinvention consists in separating the volatile parts of coals and other bituminous substances by passing superheated steam through such bituminous substances at a high temperature, and then passing or redistilling the volatile substances thus obtained through another retort at a yet higher temperature, with an additional supply of superheated steam for the purpose of converting them into permanent illuminating-gas.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OF15ICE.
S. LLOYD WIEGAND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF lLLUMlNATlNG-GAS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 39,606, dated August 18, 1863.
the city of Philadelphia and the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Process of Manufacturing Illuminating-Gas; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact description thereof.
The nature of niyinvention consists in separating the volatile parts of coals and other bituminous substances by passing superheated steam through such bituminous substances at a high temperature, and then passing or redistilling the volatile substances thus obtained through another retort at a yet higher temperature, with an additional supply of superheated steam for the purpose of converting them into permanent illuminating-gas.
To enable others skilled in the art to make use of my invention I will now proceed to describe particularly and fully the manner of conducting this process.
I place in a retort heated to a high temperature, but less than that required to make permanent gas, the coal, peat, or other hydrocarbon to be used, and circulate through it a current or currents of superheated steam. I now pass the products resulting from the distillation thus described into a second retort containing carbon heated to inca'udescence, (oak-charcoal has proved to be the most eligible form of carbon, but other forms of carbon will answer,) in which second r, tort both the steam and hydrocarbons are simultaneously decomposed and converted into permanent gas of high illuminating quality. I have found it convenient to place the retort into which the hydrocarbon is first introduced at a higher level than the gas-generating retort, and to have the connecting-tube descending from the first retort to the second retort; but I do not claim any particular form of apparatus for the purpose.
I do not claim as part of this invention the use of superheated steam as a means of facilitating the distillation of oils from h drocarbons; neither do I claim the simultaneous decomposition of steam and hydrocarbons by the action of heat in the presence of carbon for the purpose of generating illuminating-gas; but
What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure as such by Letters Patent, is,-
The combination of the processes of separating the "olatile parts of hydrocarbon by the aid of superheated steam at a lower temperature than will convert the hydrocarbons into gas, and the subsequent decomposition of said volatilized hydrocarbons simultaneously with superheated steam in the presence of incandescent carbon at temperatures which convert both the steam and hydrocarbon vapors into permanent illuminating-gas, when conducted in the manner substantially as set forth or in any other equivalent manner;
S. LLOYD WIEGAND.
Witnesses:
JOHN WHITE, DENNIS MEAD.
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