REFORMER FOR CARBONIZATION GASES CONTAINING HYDROCARBONS

摘要

The reformer has a coke bed located in a housing sealed gas-tight, a coke-charging shaft, a coke-discharging shaft, a cracked-gas discharge and a combustion chamber (20) separated by the coke bed from the cracked-gas discharge and having a burner for the carbonisation gases. Such reformers involve the problem of continuously renewing the coke bed being consumed and of maintaining constant physical and chemical conditions of state both beyond the cross-section of the coke bed and during the period of operation. For this purpose, the housing (4) is arranged essentially upright and tapers like a funnel in the region of the coke bed (23), and the combustion chamber outlet is gas-permeably sealed by a free slope (22) of the coke bed. Moreover, the combustion chamber (20) can be fitted in the region of the coke bed (23) in a side wall (12) of the housing (4). Such a reformer is particularly suitable for use in carbonisation plants.