BURTON E MOODY
Engineers in Allentown, PA
License number
Pennsylvania PE008123E
Category
Engineers
Type
Professional Engineer
Address
Address
Allentown, PA 18104
Professional information
Gasification Of Hydrocarbon Feedstocks
US Patent:
4025318, May 24, 1977
Filed:
Oct 5, 1976
Appl. No.:
5/729740
Inventors:
Burton E. Moody - Allentown PA
John E. Schuster - Allentown PA
John E. Schuster - Allentown PA
Assignee:
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. - Allentown PA
International Classification:
C01B 216
US Classification:
48213
Abstract:
Hydrocarbon feedstock is first vaporized in the presence of hydrogen and then the vaporized hydrocarbon feedstock together with excess hydrogen, is gasified to form an effluent gas consisting essentially of methane and aromatic hydrocarbons together with hydrogen and minor amounts of hydrogen sulfide. The process is suitable for the production of a pipeline gas having a heating value of approximately 1,000 BTU/SCF by further processing the effluent, after separation of the aromatic fraction and hydrogen sulfide from the gasifier effluent; the effluent is subject to cryogenic separation of the hydrogen with the hydrogen being recycled to the gasification step and the methane being discharged into a product pipeline. The overall process contemplates revaporization of the aromatic fraction separated from the effluent and regasification to extinction of this fraction. Preferred feedstocks are crude oil, bitumen produced from tar sands, shale oil, liquid volatiles resulting from coking of coal, liquefied coal resulting from solvating coal with a solvent and hydrogen, aromatic hydrocarbons, naphtha, gas oils, crude oil distillates, and crude oil residues.