Conoco-Phillips reactor

Conoco-Phillips Reactor. This reactor is basically a vertical tube in which the HF/hydrocarbon dispersion... 

Large-scale gasification reactor technology based on EF gasification from (a) General Electric (GE Texaco process) and (b) Conoco-Phillips (E-Gas). (Adapted from Meier, D. Faix, O. Fast pyrolysis A route for energy and chemicals from wood—fluidized vs. ablative pyrolysis. In Wood and Biomass Utilization for the Carbon Uptake, Seoul National University, Seoul, 2005, pp. 55-68.)... 

The reactors designed by Phillips Petroleum (now Conoco-Phillips) and UOP produce about 32% and 20%, respectively, of all alkylate produced worldwide (P. Pyror, personal communication). The HF/ hydrocarbon dispersions in these reactors have much larger interfacial areas (probably by a factor of about 10) as compared to areas in sulfuric acid/hydrocarbon dispersions.f This is a major reason why the kinetics of alkylation is much higher with HF. 

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