Patent ID: 8636835
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: A01K,B01D,C10K,Y02C,Y02P

Abstract:
1. An apparatus suitable for generating gaseous hydrocarbon fuel from syngas, comprising: a syngas inlet adjacent a lower end of said apparatus; a central reaction chamber receiving heated syngas from said syngas inlet adjacent a lower end of said reaction chamber, said reaction chamber including a first axial rotating shaft having a first plurality of radial blades mixing and circulating heated syngas and fine catalytic particles upwardly in said reaction chamber generating gaseous hydrocarbon fuel bound to the fine catalyst particles; a first tubular baffle surrounding said reaction chamber; a stripping chamber located above said reaction chamber receiving gaseous hydrocarbon fuel and fine catalyst particles from said reaction chamber, said stripping chamber including a second independently driven rotating axial shaft having a plurality of radial blades rotating at a greater velocity than said first radial blades driving gaseous hydrocarbon fuel radially outwardly; a source of hot stripping gas directing hot stripping gas into said stripping chamber stripping gaseous hydrocarbon fuel from the fine catalyst particles and maintaining the hydrocarbon fuel in a gaseous state; a second tubular baffle having spaced radial openings surrounding said stripping chamber; an annular particle collection chamber surrounding said first and second tubular baffles receiving catalyst particles from said stripping chamber; a gas collection chamber surrounding said annular filter receiving gaseous hydrocarbon fuel through said annular filters; and a gas outlet communicating with said gas collection chamber directing gaseous hydrocarbon fuel out of said apparatus.