Abstract:
The disclosure provides for methods of oxidizing carbide anions, or negative ions, from salt like carbides at temperatures from about 150° C. to about 750° C. In another aspect, the disclosure provides for reactions with intermediate transition metal carbides. In yet another aspect, the disclosure provides for a system of reactions where salt-like carbide anions and intermediate carbide anions are oxidized to produce pure carbon of various allotropes.
Abstract:
A method for producing usable product in a reactor including introducing a viscous mixture including usable product and unconverted reactant into a chamber of a housing through an inlet, wherein the mixture has a temperature greater than ambient temperature when introduced into the chamber; heating the viscous mixture in the chamber using at least one of an induction heater, an exothermic reaction, a microwave heater, a radio frequency heater, an electrical resistance heater, a laser heater, a plasma heater, and a heated fluid; converting at least a portion of the unconverted reactant to usable product, wherein at least a portion of the usable product is produced in the viscous mixture; and transferring the viscous mixture including usable product from the housing through an outlet.
Abstract:
A method for producing a usable by-product in a cyclone reactor. The method comprises introducing a reactant into a housing of the reactor through an inlet; using a burner to combust a first portion of the reactant in an exothermic reaction provided in a flame zone near a center of the housing; consuming a second portion of the reactant in an endothermic reaction near an outer wall of the housing to produce the by-product as part of a slag layer; and removing the slag layer including the by-product though an outlet in the housing; wherein the endothermic reaction takes place at a temperature of at least 1600° C.
Abstract:
Production of calcium carbide of low gas yield from calcium carbide of higher gas yield. Calcium oxide having a particle size of between 1 and 8 mm is introduced,preferably during tapping, into the melt of such calcium carbide of higher gas yield.
Abstract:
CALCIUM OXIDE IS MIXED WITH AN AQUEOUS BITUMEN EMULSION TO FORM A DRY, POWDERY SOLID. THIS SOLID IS THEN COKED AT A TEMPERATURE BETWEEN ABOUT 500* AND 1500* C., AND THEN HEATED IN AN INERT ATMOSPHERE TO A TEMPERATURE BETWEEN ABOUT 1500* AND 1800* C. TO FORM SOLID CALCIUM CARBIDE.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR OBTAINING CARBON IN HIGH YIELD FROM A PETROLEUM RESIDUUM, IN PARTICULAR FROM ASPHALT, WHICH CONSISTS OF HEATING THE PETROLEUM RESIDUUM IN A NONOXIDIZING ATMOSPHERE SUCH AS NITROGEN AT A TEMPERATURE EXCEEDING 1000*F. AND A PRESSURE EXCEEDING 50 P.S.I.A.
Abstract:
CaO suitable for making CaC2 is produced by causing pulverulent Ca(OH)2, resulting from the manufacture of C2H2 from CaC2 and containin as impurities metallic iron and ion compounds, to fall freely through a magnetic field to remove the said impurities, and then the purified Ca(OH)2 is calcined and sintered to yield CaO. The purified hydroxide may be briquetted with anthracite, e.g. 7%, and calcined to oxide. An example compares separation of iron and ferrosilicon from the hydroxide by allowing it to fall past a magnetic drum, with the prior art operation of allowing the hydroxide to fall on to the drum.