Abstract:
The vessel assembly includes a polymeric cylinder and a circular polymeric cap for the cylinder, the cylinder being closed at one end and open at the other end to receive the cap. The open end of the cylinder has a lip that is beveled inwardly from the open end, and the circular polymeric cap has a beveled lower edge that engages the beveled lip when the cap is place upon the polymeric cylinder. For high pressure applications, a choke cylinder depends from the beveled lower edge of the cap, and has an outer diameter substantially the same as the inner diameter of the polymeric cylinder so that the choke provides a self sealing mechanism for the cylinder as pressure from a chemical reaction increases within the cylinder. A composite sleeve surrounds the polymeric cylinder, and includes at least one wound fabric layer in which the winding can be a filament or a yarn.
Abstract:
A reactor for subjecting multiple reactant samples to controlled conditions with respect to pressure, temperature, and time. All individual samples in a single test run are exposed to the same temperature and pressure profiles but can be independently and selectively quenched at different times during the test run.
Abstract:
A safe and efficient hydrothermal reaction apparatus for converting waste plastic into oil is described herein. The apparatus comprises a receiver tank for containing therein a mixture of plastic and water; a high-pressure injection pump in communication with the receiver tank through a flow passage change-over valve, the flow passage change-over valve being in communication with a water injection passage; a reactor device including a curved piping in communication with the injection pump, the curved piping being provided with a heating means; and an effluent tank in communication with the reactor device through a pressure reducing valve. The flow rate of the mixture injected into the reaction device may be controlled by regulating the pressure reducing valve. Thermal decomposition of the mixture is performed in the reactor device under pressure and temperature conditions equal to, or above, a value by which a supercritical condition of water is achieved, and under the turbulent flow conditions generated partly by the curved piping.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an improved apparatus and method for initiating and sustaining an oxidation reaction. A hazardous waste, is introduced into a reaction zone within a pressurized containment vessel. An oxidizer, preferably hydrogen peroxide, is mixed with a carrier fluid, preferably water, and the mixture is heated until the fluid achieves supercritical conditions of temperature and pressure. The heating means comprise cartridge heaters placed in closed-end tubes extending into the center region of the pressure vessel along the reactor longitudinal axis. A cooling jacket surrounds the pressure vessel to remove excess heat at the walls.Heating and cooling the fluid mixture in this manner creates a limited reaction zone near the center of the pressure vessel by establishing a steady state density gradient in the fluid mixture which gradually forces the fluid to circulate internally. This circulation allows the fluid mixture to oscillate between supercritical and subcritical states as it is heated and cooled.
Abstract:
A method for repairing and restoring the functionality of equipment subjected to internal corrosion during its operation at high or medium pressure in a plant for the synthesis of urea. The method includes the cleaning of the corroded area, the formation of suitable supporting and/or holding surfaces for the placement of a new metallic lining, the formation of a new anticorrosive sealed off lining, obtained by positioning and welding flat elements and metallic plates which are suitably shaped and placed next to each other to become adapted to the internal profile of the equipment. The spaces and interstices below this new lining all communicate with at least one weep-hole present in the pressure resistant body. The entire repair is carried out through the manhole of the equipment and enables the restoring of its functionality for times similar to the normal duration of corresponding newly constructed equipment.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for fabricating high density monolithic metal and oy billets. The process requires preheating precursor materials of metal or alloy billets by means of a combustion synthesis called Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis (SHS). The reaction takes place in an insulated reaction vessel where the precursors, in a powder form, are heated to high temperatures. The precursors are then compacted to high density by means of pressure waves generated by detonation of an explosive. The method is capable of producing high purity tungsten and tungsten-based alloys of greater than 90% theoretical density.
Abstract:
The chemical reactor is based on a cylindrical vessel with a stirring device. The stirring device consists of a magnetic stirrer 3, 5, 11a, 11b, 12 with magnetic coils which are disposed around the outside of the cylindrical vessel 1 in the form of a star and produce a magnetic field and of a rotor 3 which is mounted in the region of the rotating field in the vessel 1 such that it can rotate about the cylinder axis. The rotor is provided with stirring blades 11a, 11b, 12 and comprises permanent magnets 5 co-operating with the rotating field.
Abstract:
A continuous hydrothermal synthesis method which comprises pressurizing and heating a material slurry below a saturated vapor temperature or pressurizing a material slurry at normal temperature, pressurizing and heating an aqueous liquid above the saturated vapor temperature, atomizing and mixing the slurry and the aqueous liquid, effecting hydrothermal synthesis in a reaction section above the saturated vapor temperature, cooling the reaction product and taking out the product while retaining the pressurized state in the system by alternately opening and closing shut-off valves provided above and below a product discharging section or through a thin pipe provided in the product discharging section. The method is performed using an apparatus comprising heating-pressurizing sections respectively connected to a material slurry feeding section and an aqueous liquid feeding section, an atomizing-mixing section and a reaction section provided after these feeding sections, and a product discharging section.
Abstract:
A method for producing a poly(vinyl chloride) comprises polymerizing vinyl chloride or a mixture of copolymerizable monomers containing vinyl chloride as the main component, in an aqueous medium, wherein the polymerization is carried out in a reaction vessel which is formed by arranging partition plates at certain intervals at right angles to the outer surface of an inner barrel and overlaying outer strips on and between the free ends of the partition plates to thereby form a flow passage unit having a flow passage for a heating medium defined by the partition plates, the inner barrel and the outer strips ("a temperature control element"); fixing the temperature control element in a vessel body so as to oppose the side of the outer strips with a gap to the inner surface of the vessel body, and sealing the upper and lower portions of the gap formed between the outer strip side of the temperature control element and the inner surface of the vessel body to form a gap chamber.
Abstract:
Apparatus and process for sterilizing and drying products comprising a first step of autoclaving and a second step of cyclic pressurizing with a substantially dry contaminant-free gas. The second step obviates the problem of recontamination after sterilization and permits drying at lower than conventional temperatures.