Double-cone reactor for vapor-phase reactions

• US 3,251,653 A
• Filed: 11/13/1962
• Issued: 05/17/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Susanta K. Aditya
• Original Assignee: Susanta K. Aditya
• Inventors: Aditya, Susanta K.
• Application Number:
  US04/237,169
• Time in Patent Office: 1,281 Days
• US Class Current: 422/224
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 12/00 Chemical processes in general for reacting gaseous media with gaseous media; Apparatus specially adapted therefor B01J3/08, B01J8/00, B01J19/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 19/2405 provoking a turbulent flow of the reactants, such as in cyclones, or having a high Reynolds-number
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00123 adding a temperature modifying medium to the reactants
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00166 controlling the residence time inside the reactor vessel
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/1946 conical
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 45/33 of CHx-moieties
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 45/35 in propene or isobutene
• CPC Class Codes: C07D 301/08 in the gaseous phase
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 585/923 At reactor inlet
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 585/924 Reactor shape or disposition
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 585/955 Specified mixing procedure

Claims

1. A DOUBLE-CONE REACTOR FOR VAPOR-PHASE REACTIONS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A SMALLER CONICAL ZONE HAVING A BASE AND AN APEX, SAID CONICAL ZONE BEING PROVIDED WITH INLET LINES FOR INTRODUCING VAPOROUS MATERIALS THEREIN AND WHEREIN AT LEAST ONE OF SAID INLETS FORMS AN ANGLE OF UP TO ABOUT 30* WITH THE NORMAL TO THE AXIS OF SAID SMALLER CONICAL ZONE AND EXTENDING THEREIN A DISTANCE OF UP TO ABOUT 4 TIMES THE OUTSIDE DIAMETER OF SAID INLET LINE, A LARGER CONICAL ZONE HAVING A BASE AND AN APEX AND A