PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF GAS MIXTURES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE AND HYDROGEN BY THE PARTIAL COMBUSTION OF A FUEL IN A REACTOR OPERATED AT A RELATIVELY LOW PRESSURE.

摘要

A process for the manufacture of gas mixtures containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen by the partial combustion of a fuel containing free , and/or .bound carbon in a reactor, the fuel as one reaction component and an oxygen-containing gas as a second reaction component being fed separately into the reactor via a burner to react with each other at a reactor pressure of from 1 to 20 kg/cm2 abs. and form a gas mixture containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which reaction compo-nents are fed to the reactor in such a manner that either the fuel or the oxygen-containing gas leaves the burner nozzle in a central jet whilst the other reaction component leaves the burner nozzle in a hollow stream surrounding this central jet, in which process the reaction component which leaves the burner nozzle as a hollow stream is fed to the burner at a pressure which is of from 0.1 to 3.0 kg/cm2 higher than the pressure prevailing in the reactor.