Apparatus for the performance of endothermic reactions between solid and gaseous media

Claim 1

APPARATAUS FOR GASIFYING A FINELY-DIVIDED, SOLID, CARBONACEOUS FUEL WITH A FREE OXYGEN-CONTAINING GAS AND CHEMICALLY COMBINED OXYGEN-CONTAINING FLUID CAPABLE OF REACTAING ENDOTHERMICALLY WITH SAID FUEL, COMPRISING MEANS FOR SUSPENDING SAID FUEL IN SUFFICIENT FREE OCYGEN-CONTAINING GAS TO BURN A SUFFICIENT PORTION, BUT ALL, OF SAID FUEL TO HEAT THE REMAINDER OF SAID FUEL TO ELEVATED TEMPERATUREES, MEANS FOR JETTING SAID SUSPENSION INTO A REACTOR AT IGNITION TEMPERATURES, WHEREIN SAID SUSPENSION INGNITED AND BURNS AS IT FLOWS THROUGH A COMBUSTION ZONE WITHIN SAID REACTOR, MEANS FOR INTRODUCING SAID FLUID INTO SAID REACTOR, MEANS FOR PERIPHERALLY ENVELOPING SAID JET AS IT ISSUES INTO SAID REACTOR AND INGNITES IN SAID COMDUSTION ZONE WITHIN A SEGREGATED, ANNULAR STREAM OF SAID FLUID, FLOWING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS SAID SUSPENSION ALONG, OUTSIDE OF, AND AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF SAID JET AND COMBUSTION ZONE AND FORMING AN INSULATING LAYER BETWEEN SAID COMBUSTION ZONE AND THE WALLS OF SAID REACTOR, MEANS FOR, THEREAFTER, COMMINGLING THE ANNULAR STREAM OF SAID FLUID WITH THE REACTION PRODUCTS AND SAID PREHEATED REMAINDER O SAID FUEL FLOWING FROM SAID COMBUSTION ZONE, MEANS FOR GENERATING SONIC WAVES THE OUTSIDE OF SAID REACTOR AND MEANS FOR SUBJECTING THE REACTANTS WITHIN SAID REACTOR TO SAID SONIC WAVES.