Synthesis gas from particulate catalysts, and admixtures of particulate catalysts and heat transfer solids

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A process utilizing a particulate catalyst or particulate, catalyst admixed with particulate heat transfer solids for conducting high temperature fluidized bed syn gas operations. Hydrogen and carbon monoxide are produced from a low molecular weight hydrocarbon by contact thereof, at high temperature in the presence of oxygen or, steam and oxygen, with a fluidized bed comprising said particulate solids. In one of its forms, barium hexaluminate is employed as a heat transfer solid, in concentrations ranging generally from about 10 wt% to about 99.9 wt%, in admixture with a particulate catalyst containing a metal, or metals, component catalytic for the production of hydrogen and carbon …