Inventors:
Charles W. Lipp - Baton Rouge LA
Douglas D. Merrick - Baton Rouge LA
Richard A. Lee - Baton Rouge LA
Assignee:
The Dow Chemical Company - Midland MI
International Classification:
C10J 348
Abstract:
This invention relates to a process burner for feeding a carbonaceous slurry, an oxygen-containing gas, fuel gas, and optionally, temperature moderators contemporaneously and selectively into a pressurized partial oxidation zone. The process burner feature internal formation of a uniform dispersion of the carbonaceous slurry and the oxygen-containing gas and the high atomization of the carbonaceous slurry.