Patent ID: 8187349
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: C10J,C10K

Abstract:
1. A gasification reactor vessel, comprising a combustion chamber in the upper half of the vessel, when in use, provided with a product gas outlet at the bottom end of the combustion chamber, a burner positioned such that, in use, it fires into the combustion chamber, said burner provided with at least supply conduits for an oxidizer gas and a carbonaceous feed, wherein between the wall of the combustion chamber and the wall of vessel an annular space is provided, and wherein the wall of the combustion chamber comprises an arrangement of interconnected tubes, and wherein two burner openings are present in the wall of the combustion chamber, which burner openings are located at the same horizontal level and are positioned diametrical relative to each other and wherein in the burner openings a burner is present wherein the product gas outlet at the bottom end of the combustion chamber is fluidly connected to a dip-tube, which partly is submerged in a water bath located at the lower end of the reactor vessel; and wherein at the upper end of the dip-tube means are present to add a quenching medium to the, in use, downwardly flowing mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.