A Process for the Manufacture of Oil Gas.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 16th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 17th Feb., 1894
A Process for the Manufacture of Oil Gas.
I, JULIUS MOELLER, of No. 14 Palmer Street, Westminster, in the County of
London, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to a process for the manufacture of oil gas from ordinary
petroleum, shale oil or any other oil, or fatty substance that can be melted by heat.
By means of a pump I charge a vessel to considerable pressure with combustible
gas such as hydrogen, water gas, producer gas coal gas or oil gas. I also charge
an oil tank or reservoir with the oil or the melted fat to be converted into gas. By
means of suitable injector nozzles, a strong current of gas is made to draw the oil or
melted fat from the tank and discharge it as a spray mixed with gas, which is
treated in highly heated iron or clay retorts, preferably charged with porous non-
combustible refractory material, presenting numerous interstices, such as small
blocks of porous clay with passages and holes through them, or fragments of brick
and iron scrap.
The spray of oil and gas is directed into one end of the heated retort, and, after
passing over and through the porous material inside the retort, and thus becoming
converted into gas, issues from the other end of the retort by a pipe leading down-
wards into a closed tank or vessel partly filled with water, forming a seal to the end
of the pipe.
From the top of this tank or vessel a pipe leads to a gas holder.
Dated this 27th day of April 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMILIE DIUIFICATION.
A Process for the Manufacture of Oil Gas.
I, JULIUS MOELLER, of No. 14 Palmer Street, Westminster, in the County of
London, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a process for the manufacture of oil gas from ordinary
petroleum, shale oil or any other oil, or fatty substance, that can be melted by heat.
By means of a pump I charge a vessel to considerable pressure with combustible
gas such as hydrogen, water gas, producer gas, coal gas or oil gas. I also charge
an oil tank or reservoir with the oil or the melted fat to be converted into gas. By
means of suitable injector nozzles, a strong current of gas is made to draw the oil
or melted fat from the tank and discharge it as a spray mixed with gas which is
treated in highly heated iron or clay retorts preferably charged with porous non-
combustible refractory material, presenting numerous interstices, such as small
blocks of porous clay with passages and holes through them or fragments of brick
or iron scrap.
The spray of oil and gas is directed into one end of the heated retort, and after
passing over and through the porous material inside the retort, and thus becoming
converted into gas, issues from the other end of the retort by a pipe leading
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page_text: downwards into a closed tank or vessel partly filled with water forming a seal to
the end of the pipe.
From the top of this tank or vessel a pipe leads to a gas holder.
The accompanying drawing shews an arrangement of apparatus suitable for
operating according to the process above set forth.
A is a strong vessel charged with combustible gas and preferably provided with
a pressure gauge B. This vessel by a pipe C and branch D furnished with a cock
or valve d communicates with a tank E containing oil. The pipe C leads also
through a cock or valve c to an injector nozzle F, and the tank E by a pipe G
provided with a cock or valve g communicates with a casing H surrounding the
nozzle and having an opening into a retort K. This retort which is preferably
charged with refractory porous material P by a pipe L communicates with a
vessel M containing water to seal the end of the pipe L, and from the upper part
of M a pipe N leads to a gas holder. The retort K being heated by a fire com-
pressed gas from the vessel A passes by the pipe C and regulating cock or valve c
to the nozzle F whence it issues as a jet drawing oil from the tank E by the pipe G
and regulating cock or valve g and discharging the oil in finely divided spray
mixed with gas into the retort K. By partially opening the cock or valve d so as
to subject the oil in E to the pressure of the compressed gas the current of oil to
the ejector casing may be increased. The oil spray in passing through the
retort K mixed with gas becomes itself converted into gas, and the mixed gases
pass by the pipe L to the vessel M and thence by the pipe N to the gas holder.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
.
The herein described process for the manufacture of oil gas that is to say, by
the injector action of compressed combustible gas forcing oil or melted fatty matter
as a spray mixed with the gas into a heated retort.
Dated this 16th day of January 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.