Patent ID: 8196848

Claim:
An injector module for a gasifier, said injector module comprising: a two-stage slurry splitter; a plurality of slurry injection tubes extending from the two-stage slurry splitter; an injector face plate having the slurry injection tubes extending therethrough, the injector face plate including a reactant-side plate, a gasifier-side plate and a coolant passage between the reactant-side plate and the gasifier-side plate through which a coolant is passed for cooling the injector face plate; a plurality of impinging conic elements extending through the reactant-side plate and the gasifier-side plate, each impinging conic element including a bore surface defining a central orifice that receives one of the slurry injection tubes such that the impinging conic element is fitted at an end of the respective slurry injection tube; and a plurality of annular impinging orifices incorporated into the injector face plate, each annular impinging orifice surrounding a corresponding slurry injection tube and extending through a respective one of the plurality of impinging conic elements.