Patent ID: 8435402

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a nozzle reactor, the nozzle reactor comprising: a reactor body having a reactor body passage with an injection end and an ejection end; a first material injector having a first material injection passage and being mounted in the nozzle reactor in material injecting communication with the injection end of the reactor body, the first material injection passage having (a) an enlarged volume injection section, an enlarged volume ejection section, and a reduced volume mid-section intermediate the enlarged volume injection section and enlarged volume ejection section, (b) a material injection end, and (c) a material ejection end in injecting communication with the reactor body passage; and a second material feed port penetrating the reactor body and being adjacent to the material ejection end of the first material injection passage; injecting a stream of cracking material through the first material injector into the reactor body; and injecting hydrocarbon material through the second material feed port into the reactor body; wherein the cracking material comprises from 90 to 99.9% methanol, ethanol, ethane, propane, biodiesel, carbon monoxide, or nitrogen.