Multi-injector autothermal reforming process and apparatus for producing synthesis gas

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A novel injector/reactor apparatus and an efficient process for the partial oxidation of light hydrocarbon gases, such as methane to convert such gases , to useful synthesis gas for subsequent hydrocarbon synthesis. Sources of a light hydrocarbon gas, such as methane (23) and oxygen or an oxygen-, containing gas (22) are preheated and pressurized and injected through an injector means at high velocity into admixture with each other in the desired proportions, preferably at comparable momentums at a plurality of mixing , nozzles which are open to the reaction zone of a reactor and are spaced over the face of the injector, to form a reactant gas premix having a pressure drop equal to at …