Patent ID: 9555342
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: B01D,B01J,C10B,C10G

Claim:
1. A reactor and internals of said reactor for thermal processing of a mixture, said reactor comprising: a. a rotating kiln; b. a heating system; c. at least one shelf on a wall of the rotating kiln, the at least one shelf being either parallel to a center axis of the rotating kiln, when the rotating kiln is horizontal, or slanted with respect to the center axis when the rotating kiln is slanted or not slanted; d. a charge of plates of consistent shapes, at least a portion of said plates being held by said at least one shelf against said reactor wall so as to heat a surface of said plates for a time until rotation of said kiln causes said plates to flip and fall so as to present said heated surface of said plates to said mixture to be thermally processed; e. means for bringing the mixture to be thermally processed on the surface of at least part of the plates; f. means for removing the solids, produced in the reactor during the thermal processing, from the rotating kiln; g. means for recovering reaction and straight run products produced in the reactor during the thermal processing; and h. means for venting gas, obtained by the thermal processing, outside the zone defined by the rotating kiln, wherein the height of the shelves is about twice the thickness of the plates.