Patent ID: 9637383
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: B01J,C01B,C10L,Y02E

Claim:
1. Reaction tank of a system for hydrothermal carbonization of biomass, the reaction tank comprising a reaction space having a biomass supplier for supplying biomass and having a steam supplier for supplying steam, wherein the steam supplier comprises a tangential blow-in nozzle and a vertical blow-in nozzle, both the tangential blow-in nozzle and the vertical blow-in nozzle being disposed in a turbulence region of the reaction space, close to the bottom, for swirling up the biomass, using the inflowing steam, wherein a blow-in direction of the tangential blow-in nozzle runs skew with respect to a longitudinal axis of the reaction space, and wherein a blow-in direction of the vertical blow-in nozzle runs parallel to the longitudinal axis of the reaction space.