Apparatus for effecting chemical reactions

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A GAS GENERATOR COMPRISING:

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FIXED-BED CATALYST-TUBE REACTOR APPARATUS COMPRISA HOUSING HAVING A SOURCE LIQUID INLET OPENING AND SPACED THEREFROM A REACTION CHAMBER WITH A LIQUID ING, IN COMBINATION (A) WALLS DEFINING AT LEAST ONE SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL INLET OPENING, SAID REACTION CHAMBER BEING ADAPTED CATALYST BED-CONFINING TUBE HAVING OUTLET MEANS AT TO CONTAIN A SUBSTANCE THAT REACTS CHEMICALLY WITH A LIQUID TO PRODUCE A GAS, ITS UPPER END, (B) CATALYST BED-SUPPORTING MEANS SPANNING THE LOWER GAS EXIT MEANS CONNECTED WITH SAID REACTION CHAMBER FOR EGRESS OF GASES GENERATED THEREIN, END OF THE TUBE, (C) TUBE-SUPPORTING MEANS POSITIONING THE UPPER END A DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE MOVABLE PISTON SLIDABLY MOUNTED IN SAID HOUSING, OF THE TUBE AND THE LOWER END OF THE TUBE AND THE BEDSUPPORTING MEANS, AND ENCLOSING A COOLING ZONE SURSAID PISTON HAVING LONGITUDINALLY SPACED FACES, AND A LONGITUDINALLY INTERMEDIATE LATERAL RECESS FORMED IN ROUND THE WALLS OF THE TUBE, (D) AND A TUBULAR GAS DISTRIBUTOR EXTENDING UPWARDLY THE BODY OF SAID PISTON BETWEEN SAID FACES, AN INTERMEDIATE LIQUID TRANSFER CHAMBER FORMED INTERTHROUGH THE BED-SUPPORTING MEANS INTO THE TUBE, WITH THE DISTRIBUTOR BEING PERFORATED OVER A MAJOR PORTION MEDIATE SAID SPACED PISTON FACES BY SAID LATERAL RECESS AND CONNECTIBLE ONLY SEPARATELY BUT NOT SIMULTANEOUSOF THE VERTICAL LENGTH OF THE TUBE, (E) WITH A FIRST REACTANT GAS INLET CONDUIT OPENING INTO LY TO SAID REACTION CHAMBER LIQUID INLET OPENING AND TO SAID SOURCE LIQUID INLET OPENING, THE DISTRIBUTOR BENEATH THE BED-SUPPORTING MEANS, A SECOND REACTANT GAS INLET CONDITUIT OPENING INTO THE SAID INTERMEDIATE LIQUID TRANSFER CHAMBER RECESS IN SAID PISTON HAVING AN EFFECTIVE LONGITUDINAL LENGTH NO CATALYST BED-CONFINING TUBE, AND A CROSS-BLEED CONDUIT WITH AN ADJUSTABLE VALVE THEREIN JOINING SAID FIRST LONGER THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID SOURCE LIQUID INLET OPENING AND SAID REACTION CHAMBER LIQUID INLET AND SECOND INLET CONDUITS, WHEREBY REACTANT GAS PASSING THROUGH THE FIRST CONDUIT MAY OPENING AT THE REACTION CHAMBER LIQUID INLET OPENINLET OPENING AND REACTION CHAMBER LIQUID INLET OPENBE CONTINUOUSLY DILUTED BY A PREDETERMINED PERCENTAGE OF REACTANT GAS BLED FROM THE SECOND CONDUIT, PROVIDING IMING THEREWITH, WHEREBY SAID INTERMEDIATE LIQUID TRANSFER CHAMBER CAN BE IN LIQUID FLOW CONNECTION AT MEDIATE REACTION WHEN THE PREMIXED REACTANTS ARE INTRODISSIPATION OF ANY HEAT PRODUCED BY THE EXOTHERMIC RE-

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FIXED-BED CATALYST-TUBE REACTOR APPARATUS COMPRISA HOUSING HAVING A SOURCE LIQUID INLET OPENING AND SPACED THEREFROM A REACTION CHAMBER WITH A LIQUID ING, IN COMBINATION (A) WALLS DEFINING AT LEAST ONE SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL INLET OPENING, SAID REACTION CHAMBER BEING ADAPTED CATALYST BED-CONFINING TUBE HAVING OUTLET MEANS AT TO CONTAIN A SUBSTANCE THAT REACTS CHEMICALLY WITH A LIQUID TO PRODUCE A GAS, ITS UPPER END, (B) CATALYST BED-SUPPORTING MEANS SPANNING THE LOWER GAS EXIT MEANS CONNECTED WITH SAID REACTION CHAMBER FOR EGRESS OF GASES GENERATED THEREIN, END OF THE TUBE, (C) TUBE-SUPPORTING MEANS POSITIONING THE UPPER END A DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE MOVABLE PISTON SLIDABLY MOUNTED IN SAID HOUSING, OF THE TUBE AND THE LOWER END OF THE TUBE AND THE BEDSUPPORTING MEANS, AND ENCLOSING A COOLING ZONE SURSAID PISTON HAVING LONGITUDINALLY SPACED FACES, AND A LONGITUDINALLY INTERMEDIATE LATERAL RECESS FORMED IN ROUND THE WALLS OF THE TUBE, (D) AND A TUBULAR GAS DISTRIBUTOR EXTENDING UPWARDLY THE BODY OF SAID PISTON BETWEEN SAID FACES, AN INTERMEDIATE LIQUID TRANSFER CHAMBER FORMED INTERTHROUGH THE BED-SUPPORTING MEANS INTO THE TUBE, WITH THE DISTRIBUTOR BEING PERFORATED OVER A MAJOR PORTION MEDIATE SAID SPACED PISTON FACES BY SAID LATERAL RECESS AND CONNECTIBLE ONLY SEPARATELY BUT NOT SIMULTANEOUSOF THE VERTICAL LENGTH OF THE TUBE, (E) WITH A FIRST REACTANT GAS INLET CONDUIT OPENING INTO LY TO SAID REACTION CHAMBER LIQUID INLET OPENING AND TO SAID SOURCE LIQUID INLET OPENING, THE DISTRIBUTOR BENEATH THE BED-SUPPORTING MEANS, A SECOND REACTANT GAS INLET CONDITUIT OPENING INTO THE SAID INTERMEDIATE LIQUID TRANSFER CHAMBER RECESS IN SAID PISTON HAVING AN EFFECTIVE LONGITUDINAL LENGTH NO CATALYST BED-CONFINING TUBE, AND A CROSS-BLEED CONDUIT WITH AN ADJUSTABLE VALVE THEREIN JOINING SAID FIRST LONGER THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID SOURCE LIQUID INLET OPENING AND SAID REACTION CHAMBER LIQUID INLET AND SECOND INLET CONDUITS, WHEREBY REACTANT GAS PASSING THROUGH THE FIRST CONDUIT MAY OPENING AT THE REACTION CHAMBER LIQUID INLET OPENINLET OPENING AND REACTION CHAMBER LIQUID INLET OPENBE CONTINUOUSLY DILUTED BY A PREDETERMINED PERCENTAGE OF REACTANT GAS BLED FROM THE SECOND CONDUIT, PROVIDING IMING THEREWITH, WHEREBY SAID INTERMEDIATE LIQUID TRANSFER CHAMBER CAN BE IN LIQUID FLOW CONNECTION AT MEDIATE REACTION WHEN THE PREMIXED REACTANTS ARE INTRODISSIPATION OF ANY HEAT PRODUCED BY THE EXOTHERMIC RE-