Patent ID: 9561958
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: B01D,B01J,C01B,Y02P

Claim:
1. An apparatus for the oxidation of reactant gases, said apparatus comprising: a first chamber forming a passageway for a first reactant gas; a second chamber forming a passageway for a second reactant gas; a porous catalytic membrane separating the first and second chambers, said porous catalytic membrane adapted to allow all of the first reactant gas to permeate from the first chamber through the porous catalytic membrane to the second chamber and the second reactant gas to diffuse into the porous catalytic membrane such that there is a reaction producing products which pass through at least a portion of the porous catalytic membrane into the second chamber; wherein the apparatus is configured such that a heat of reaction from the reaction of the first and second reactant gases is transferred from at least a portion of the reaction zone; and wherein a heat exchange transfer surface is configured to transfer heat away from the catalytic surface under substantially exothermic reaction conditions and configured to transfer heat to the reaction under substantially endothermic reaction conditions.