Patents Assigned to Brown & Root Petroleum and Chemicals
  • Axial-radial reactors in the braun ammonia synloop with extrnal heat sink
    Patent number: 5427760
    Abstract: The present invention discloses application of axial-radial reactors to the Braun synloop using an external heat sink between the feed/effluent exchanger and the inlet to the second reactor. The advantages of the axial-radial reactors in the Braun synloop have been heretofor unavailable for failure of the prior art to combine the advantages of the high conversion disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,867,959 with axial-radial reactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Brown & Root Petroleum and Chemicals
    Inventor: Bernard J. Grotz