Patent ID: 8013025
Filing Date: 2011-09-06
Classification: B01J,C10G

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a three-phase slurry reactor, the method including feeding at a low level through a shell of the reactor at least one gaseous reactant into a vertically extending slurry body of solid particles suspended in a suspension liquid, the slurry body being contained in a plurality of vertically extending horizontally spaced slurry channels inside said reactor shell which is a common reactor shell, the slurry channels being defined between vertically extending horizontally spaced divider walls or plates and each slurry channel having a height, width and breadth such that the height and breadth are much larger than the width, the slurry body extending continuously from a bottom thereof to a normal slurry level below a head space so that bubbles traverse the continuous slurry body from where the gaseous reactant is introduced to the normal slurry level; allowing the gaseous reactant to react as it passes upwardly through the slurry body present in the slurry channels, thereby to form non-gaseous and/or gaseous product; allowing gaseous product and/or unreacted gaseous reactant to disengage from the slurry body in said head space above the slurry body; withdrawing gaseous product and/or unreacted gaseous reactant from the head space; and maintaining the slurry body at a desired level by withdrawing slurry or suspension liquid, including any non-gaseous product, or by adding slurry or suspension liquid.