Filtration Combustion of Hydrocarbon Fluids in a Moving Bed of Inert Heat-Carrying Agent

Abstract

Procedure for combustion of hydrocarbon fluids in the filtration mode under the conditions of a mobile bed of an inert heat-carrying agent was suggested and tested. This method can be implemented both with an excess amount of the oxidizing agent and combustible fluids burned to CO₂ and H₂O and at a deficiency of the oxidizing agent when the starting fuel is converted to the synthesis gas mostly containing CO and H₂. The fundamental aspects of the filtration combustion were experimentally studied for the example of a model fuel (isopropanol) at various ratios between the amounts of oxidizing agent and fuel.