Fluid bed reactor having a pulse combustor-type heat transfer module

摘要

FLUID BED REACTOR HAVING A PULSE COMBUSTOR-TYPE HEAT TRANSFER A fluid bed reactor has a reaction vessel with a compartment configured to process a reactive material to form one or more products. Attached to the reaction vessel is at least one heat transfer module which includes a pulse combustor and an associated acoustic chamber. The pulse combustor has at least one tailpipe that terminates in its associated 10 acoustic chamber. Flue gases exiting the tailpipe(s) pass from the acoustic chamber, through a wall separating the acoustic chamber from the reactor vessel and into heat transfer tubes that protrude into a compartment of the reactor vessel. Feedstock inlets are configured to introduce the reactive material into a region that is vertically between the first and second clusters of heat transfer tubes. The heat transfer tubes have an annular 15 construction such that the flue gases pass through an inner shield tube in a direction away from the wall, turn around, and return in a direction towards the wall where they are directed to a manifold. A first cluster of heating conduits at least partially occupies the compartment and extends over a first vertical extent within the compartment. A second cluster of heating conduits partially occupies the compartment and extends over a second 20 vertical extent within the compartment. The first cluster of heating conduits is vertically below the second cluster of heating conduits and spaced apart therefrom by a first separation distance.