A PROCESS FOR OBTAINING HYDROCARBONS

摘要

Hydrogen, a carbon-containing material and crushed flux are injected into a carburized metal bath with induction coil heating elements in order to produce a required hydrocarbon compound, for example methane or acetylene. The bath is contained within a pressurized crucible-type furnace and impurities from the raw materials and by-product of the reaction are drawn off as slag or in the gaseous effluent. The carbon-containing raw material which may be any suitably prepared, dried and milled material such as solid fossil fuel or industrial waste, is far greater than in previous industrial hydrocarbon-producing processes.