Patent ID: 9707530
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: B01J,C07C,C10G

Claim:
1. An apparatus for producing acetylene from a feed stream comprising methane comprising: a supersonic reactor for receiving the methane feed stream and heating the methane feed stream to a pyrolysis temperature; a reactor shell of the supersonic reactor for defining a reactor chamber; a combustion zone of the supersonic reactor for combusting a fuel source to provide a high temperature carrier gas passing through the reactor space at supersonic speeds to heat and accelerate the methane feed stream to a pyrolysis temperature; an outer layer of the reactor shell for providing structural support thereto; and an inner layer of the reactor shell having a thermal conductivity of between about 200 and about 500 W/m-K for conducting heat from the reactor chamber the inner layer comprising at least copper chrome, copper chrome zinc, copper chrome niobium, copper nickel and copper nickel tungsten and mixtures thereof.