Distillation: apparatus – Apparatus – Systems
Patent
1984-01-04
1985-11-05
Kratz, Peter
Distillation: apparatus
Apparatus
Systems
202226, 202261, 202262, 202269, 202270, 414217, 414218, C10B 3300
Patent
active
045512060
ABSTRACT:
A dry sealing leg apparatus is comprised of four chambers through which a moving bed of retorted shale particulates from an oil shale retort is passed serially: a surge chamber, a gas injection chamber, a seal leg chamber, and a gas disengaging chamber. In the gas injection chamber, a sealing gas penetrates the moving bed of shale and divides into two portions. One portion travels countercurrently to the shale through the surge chamber and enters the retort at a positive pressure to seal product gases therein. A second portion travels co-currently with the shale through the seal leg chamber and gas disengaging chamber and exits at a pressure less than that of the retort, having been reduced in pressure by resistance to its passage through the shale.
A method is provided wherein shale particulates are retorted, then passed through the dry sealing leg to reduce pressure, and crushed at a lower pressure than the operating pressure of the retort, following which the crushed retorted particulates are transported by an entraining gas stream to a fluidized combustor in which a substantial proportion of combustible materials on the shale particulates is burned to release heat energy for recovery from the flue gases.
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Deering Roland F.
Duir John H.
Bostich June M.
Kratz Peter
Sandford Dean
Union Oil Company of California
Wirzbicki Gregory F.
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