Successful Commercial Testing of Novel Dry Calcium Carbide Process for Manufacture of Acetylene at Xindou Kaixing Technology Company

摘要

@@ The package 36 m3/h commercial test unit for manufacture of acetylene via dry CaC2 process independently developed by the Xindou Kaixing Technology Company in Chendu has been successfully demonstrated. This achievement has ap-plied for a Chinese invention patent and a patent on practi-cal new equipment. Currently the Kaixing Technology Com-pany is planning to construct a 360 m3/h dry acetylene pro-duction line at the customer site. The results of multiple feeding tests had revealed that the utilization of reaction water and gasification water was close to 100%, and the acetylene purity exceeded 98.5% with acetylene yield reach-ing over 98%. The byproduct was the powdered calcium car-bide residue with its water content lower than 8%, and its grain size less than 0.6 mm containing less than 0.04% of acetylene.