Methods for liquefaction of carbonaceous materials, including methods that use electromagnetic radiation. Systems for liquefaction of carbonaceous materials. The systems may include a circulation conduit for mixing reactants, and/or a heating apparatus that relies on electromagnetic radiation.

The present invention relates to a gas/liquid oligomerization reactor with successive zones of variable diameter. The invention also relates to a process for the oligomerization of ethylene using a gas/liquid oligomerization reactor with successive zones of variable diameter.

Provided are an apparatus and a method for manufacturing high-pressure method low-density polyethylene, the apparatus and the method having excellent characteristics that a chain transfer agent can be supplied by a simpler apparatus, a deviation (variation) of the concentration of the chain transfer agent supplied to a reactor can be reduced, and compression energy of the chain transfer agent can be reduced. An apparatus for manufacturing high-pressure method polyethylene includes a chain transfer agent supply line that is a line connected to a low pressure recycle ethylene supply line for supplying a chain transfer agent.

Systems and methods are provided for improving the operation of groups of reverse flow reactors by operating reactors in a regeneration portion of the reaction cycle to have improved flue gas management. The flue gas from reactor(s) at a later portion of the regeneration step can be selectively used for recycle back to the reactors as a diluent/heat transport fluid. The flue gas from a reactor earlier in a regeneration step can be preferentially used as the gas vented from the system to maintain the desired volume of gas within the system. This results in preferential use of higher temperature flue gas for recycle and lower temperature flue gas for venting from the system. This improved use of flue gas within a reaction system including reverse flow reactors can allow for improved reaction performance while reducing or minimizing heat losses during the regeneration portion of the reaction cycle.

An automated system of reactors carries out a solid-phase peptide synthesis, and more particularly a solid-phase peptide synthesizer which is automated, by means of a reactor with a liquid-recirculation loop making it possible to measure, in real time, chemical species in the reactor via measuring cells. This system includes inlet pipes, namely: pipes dedicated to the introduction of resin, pipes dedicated to the introduction of the synthesis and washing solvent, pipes dedicated to the introduction of the agent for deprotecting the amino acid introduced, pipes dedicated to the introduction of the reagents, and includes an assembly reactor and a loop for recirculation of the liquid of the reactor.

A carbon dioxide reduction system 1 comprises a transport path 4 that transports carbon dioxide and a reduction apparatus 5 that reduces heated carbon dioxide introduced through the transport path 4, wherein the carbon dioxide is heated in the transport path 4 by at least one of recycled energy and exhaust heat.

A device for the descending flow of a hydrocarbon-containing liquid containing solid particles at the bottom of an item of equipment (1) and a process for the conversion of hydrocarbon-containing feedstocks implementing said device.

A process plant and a process for production of sulfur from a feedstock gas including from 15% to 100 vol % H.sub.2S and a stream of sulfuric acid, the process including a) providing a Claus reaction furnace feed stream with a substoichiometric amount of oxygen, b) directing to a Claus reaction furnace operating at elevated temperature, c) cooling to provide a cooled Claus converter feed gas, d) directing to contact a material catalytically active in the Claus reaction, e) withdrawing a Claus tail gas and elementary sulfur, f) directing a stream comprising said Claus tail gas to a Claus tail gas treatment, wherein sulfuric acid directed to said Claus reaction furnace is in the form of droplets with 90% of the mass of the droplets having a diameter below 500 μm, with the associated benefit of such a process efficiently converting all liquid H.sub.2SO.sub.4 to gaseous H.sub.2SO.sub.4 and further to SO.sub.2.

A process for synthesis of urea from CO.sub.2 and NH.sub.3 wherein a steam flow (13) produced in the condenser (3) of a high-pressure synthesis loop is compressed to raise its pressure and temperature before using the steam as a heat source for a downstream step of the process.

A process for synthesis of ammonia including generation of makeup gas in a frontend and conversion of said makeup gas in an ammonia synthesis loop including a circulator, a converter, a condensation section and a liquid ammonia separation section, including: when the loop operates at a partial load and a flow rate of makeup gas transferred from the front end to the synthesis loop is reduced, the loop is controlled by separating a gas stream from a converter feed line at a point upstream of the converter thus forming a bypass stream; reintroducing said bypass stream at the suction side of the circulator or at a point of the loop downstream of said separation section.