摘要 |
The process of the invention comprises feeding gaseous reactants into a slurry bed of particles suspended in a liquid. The gaseous reactants (13) react in the slurry bed (16), to form liquid and, optionally, gaseous products. The liquid product forms, together with the suspension liquid, a liquid phase of the slurry bed (16). Any gaseous product and unreacted gaseous reactants disengage from the slurry bed, and pass upwardly, together with any entrained solid particles and liquid phase, as a gas phase into a head space (17) above the slurry bed (16). The gas phase is subjected to distillation and, optionally, washing in the head space, to separate any entrained solid particles and liquid phase from the gas phase. Any separated entrained solid particles and, optionally, liquid phase is returned to the slurry bed. The treated gas phase is withdrawn (44, 46) from the head space. |