BUBBLING TOWER HYDROCARBON REACTOR AND METHOD OF DETECTING SLURRY SURFACE LEVEL

• Main Authors: YAMADA, EIICHI, KATO, YUZURU, ONISHI, YASUHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.12.2014
• Subjects: CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; MEASURING; MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUIDLEVEL; METALLURGY; METERING BY VOLUME; MINERAL WAXES; PEAT; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVEHYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, ORGASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; TESTING; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING

THERE IS PROVIDED A BUBBLE COLUMN TYPE HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACTOR (3) WHICH SYNTHESIZES A HYDROCARBON COMPOUND BY A CHEMICAL REACTION OF A SYNTHESIS GAS INCLUDING HYDROGEN AND CARBON MONOXIDE AS MAIN COMPONENTS, AND A SLURRY (12) HAVING SOLID CATALYST PARTICLES (124) SUSPENDED IN LIQUID. THE HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACTOR (3) INCLUDES A REACTOR MAIN BODY (10) WHICH ACCOMMODATES THE SLURRY (12), A SYNTHESIS GAS SUPPLYING SECTION (20) WHICH SUPPLIES THE SYNTHESIS GAS TO THE SLURRY (12); ONE PRESSURE SENSOR (51) WHICH IS ARRANGED HIGHER THAN THE LIQUID LEVEL OF THE SLURRY (12) TO MEASURE THE PRESSURE OF THE SYNTHESIS GAS ABOVE THE LIQUID LEVEL, ANOTHER PRESSURE SENSOR WHICH IS ARRANGED LOWER THAN THE LIQUID LEVEL OF THE SLURRY (12) TO MEASURE THE PRESSURE OF THE SLURRY, AND A LIQUID LEVEL DETECTING DEVICE (71) WHICH DETECTS A LIQUID LEVEL POSITION OF THE SLURRY (12) ON THE BASIS OF MEASUREMENT RESULTS OF THE PRESSURE SENSORS. A PLURALITY OF THE OTHER PRESSURE SENSORS ARE PROVIDED AT ARBITRARY INTERVALS IN AN AXIAL DIRECTION OF THE REACTOR MAIN BODY (10). (FIG. 2)