Claims
- 1. A process for intimately contacting and reacting at least two disparate gaseous phases, comprising the steps of:
- A. separately establishing at least two disparate gaseous feedstreams of said at least two gaseous phases, respectively,
- B. separating each of said feedstreams into a plurality of substreams such that all of one of said gaseous phases is divided into a plurality of first substreams and all of another of said gaseous phases is divided into a plurality of second substreams, the number of said first substreams equaling the number of said second substreams,
- C. directing each of said first substreams toward a respective one of said second substreams within a chamber to combine each of said first substreams with a respective one of the second substreams at a respective separate mixing zone before said second substreams are combined with one another and before said first substreams are combined with one another, in order to establish a plurality of homogeneous blended mixtures of said first and second gaseous phases,
- D. thereafter combining together said blended mixtures to form a final mixture, and
- E. thereafter reacting said first and second gaseous phases of said final mixture.
- 2. The process as defined by claim 1, wherein the speed of flow of at least one of said plurality of first and second substreams being at least 3 times as great as that of its original feedstream.
- 3. The process according to claim 1, wherein said blended mixtures are combined by causing at least one of said substreams to travel helically.
- 4. The process according to claim 3, wherein said helically traveling subsream is introduced into said chamber in a generally tangential direction.
- 5. The process according to claim 3, wherein said final mixture passes through a restriction of said chamber.
- 6. The process according to claim 1, wherein walls of said chamber are maintained at a temperature such as to avoid local decomposition of any products of reaction between said gaseous phases.
- 7. The process according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said feedstreams comprises a hydrocarbon.
- 8. The process according to claim 1, wheren at least one of said feedstreams comprises chlorine gas and at least one other feedstream comprises hydrogen or a hydrocarbon.
- 9. The process according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said feedstreams comprises oxygen gas and at least one other of said feedstreams comprises hydrogen or a hydrocarbon.
- 10. Apparatus for intimately contacting and reacting at least two disparate gaseous phases, comprising:
- means for separately establishing at least two disparate gaseous feedstreams of said at least two gaseous phases, respectively,
- a chamber,
- feedstream separating means for separating each of said feedstreams into a plurality of substreams such that all of one of said gaseous phases is divided into a plurality of first substreams and all of another of said gaseous phases is divided into a plurality of second substreams, the number of said first substreams equaling the number of said second substreams,
- said feedstream separating means directing each of said first substreams toward a respective one of said second substreams within said chamber to combine each of said first substreams with a respective one of said second substreams at a respective separate mixing zone before said first substreams are combined with one another and before said second substreams are combined with one another, to establish a plurality of homogeneous blended mixtures of said first and second gaseous phases,
- combining means for combining said blended mixtures so as to form a final mixture, and
- means causing said first and second gaseous phases of said final mixture to react.
- 11. Apparatus according to claim 10 wherein said combining means includes means for establishing a helical flow of at least one of said substreams.
- 12. Apparatus according to claim 10 including means for regulating the temperature of said blended mixtures.
- 13. Apparatus according to claim 10 including means for separately establishing a rectilinear flow of fluid to a zone of restricted flow passage of said blended mixtures.
Priority Claims (2)
Number |
Date |
Country |
Kind |
84 11002 |
Jul 1984 |
FRX |
|
85 06218 |
Jul 1985 |
FRX |
|
Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 029,385, filed Mar. 23, 1987, now abandoned, which is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 754,016 filed July 11, 1985, now abandoned.
US Referenced Citations (14)
Foreign Referenced Citations (4)
Number |
Date |
Country |
2366517 |
Apr 1978 |
FRX |
2508818 |
Jul 1981 |
FRX |
2488525 |
Mar 1982 |
FRX |
1438057 |
Jun 1976 |
GBX |
Continuations (2)
|
Number |
Date |
Country |
Parent |
29385 |
Mar 1987 |
|
Parent |
754016 |
Jul 1985 |
|