Patent ID: 6482375
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: B01J,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for carrying out two different chemical reactions in a reactor system, said method comprisinga. providing a reactor system comprising 1) at least two mutually separate reactors each containing a reactor bed, of which reactor beds the surfaces exposed to the reactants are catalytically active for the chemical reactions concerned, and 2) at least one partition between the two reactors, wherein a) at least one first reactor containing a reactor bed is present, said bed being bounded by at least one partition, said bed comprising a continuous porous metal extending throughout the first reactor, said bed being fixedly connected to said partition, b) at least one second reactor containing a reactor bed is present, said bed comprising a continuous porous metal structure extending throughout the reactor, said bed being fixedly connected to said partition, and c) said second reactor, with respect to the first reactor, is disposed on the other side of said partition, so that a heat exchanging contact between said beds is present and the reaction heat of a first chemical reaction which is carried out in said first reactor is supplied or absorbed by carrying out a second chemical reaction in said second reactor; b. carrying out said first chemical reaction in said first reactor, wherein reactants for said first chemical reaction, when introduced at an inlet for said first reactor, are at a temperature within a range of 550Â° C. to 1250Â° C. and; c. carrying out said second chemical reaction in said second reactor.