Means for converting hydrocarbons

Claim 1

AN ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS FOR CONTACTING FLUIDIZABLE SOLID MATERIAL WITH GASIFORM MATERIAL WHICH COMPRISES A REGENERATOR CHAMBER POSITIONED ADJACENT TO A UNITARY REACTOR-STRIPPER VESSEL, SAID UNITARY VESSEL COMPRISING AN UPPER CYLINDRICAL REACTOR CHAMBER AND A LOWER CYLINDRICAL STRIPPER CHAMBER OF SMALLER DIAMETER EXTENDING FROM WITHIN THE LOWER PORTION OF THE REACTOR CHAMBER DOWNWARDLY THROUGH THE BASE THEREOF TO FORM AN ANNULAR SECTION IN THE LOWER PORTION OF SAID REACTOR CHAMBER, AN ANNULAR GRID MEMBER POSITIONED ACROSS SAID ANNULAR SECTION, A PORTION OF SAID GRID MEMBER BEING NONPERFORATED THEREBY FORMING AN ANNULAR DISTRIBUTING CHAMBER IN A PORTION OF SAID ANNULAR SECTION, THE TOP OF SAID STRIPPER CHAMBER FORMED BY A FUNNEL SHAPED MEMBER ATTACHED AT ITS UPPER PERIPHERY TO THE CYLINDRICAL WALL OF SAID STRIPPER CHAMBER AND PROVIDED WITH VALVE MEANS IN THE FUNNEL STEM ADJACENT THE BOTTOM OF THE STEM, AT LEAST ONE OPEN END VENT CONDUIT EXTENDING FROM THE UPPER PORTION OF SAID STRIPPER CHAMBER TO THE UPPER PORTION OF SAID REACTOR CHAMBER, A FIRST STANDPIPE EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM THE BOTTOM OF SAID STRIPPER CHAMBER, A FIRST TRANSFER CONDUIT CONNECTED TO THE BASE OF SAID FIRST STANDPIPE AND EXTENDING TO THE BOTTOM OF SAID ADJACENT REGENERATOR CHAMBER, A SECOND STANDPIPE EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM WITHIN THE LOWER PORTION OF SAID REGENERATOR CHAMBER, A SECOND TRANSFER CONDUIT CONNECTED TO THE BASE OF SAID SECOND STANDPIPE AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY THROUGH SAID REACTOR CHAMBER FOR DISCHARGE IN THE UPPER PORTION THEREOF, A THIRD STANDPIPE EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM WITHIN THE LOWER PORTION OF SAID REGENERATOR CHAMBER, A THIRD TRANSFER CONDUIT CONNECTED TO THE BASE OF SAID THIRD STANDPIPE WHICH EXTENDS INTO SAID ANNULAR DISTRIBUTING CHAMBER TERMINATING BENEATH SAID NON-PERFORATED PORTION OF SAID GRID MEMBER, MEANS FOR INTRODUCING GASIFORM MATERIAL TO THE LOWER PORTION OF SAID STRIPPER CHAMBER AND SAID REGENERATOR CHAMBER AND MEANS FOR REMOVING GASIFORM MATERIAL FROM THE UPPER PORTION OF SAID REACTOR CHAMBER AND SAID REGENERATOR CHAMBER.