The present technique presents a structured packing module 100 for a gas phase reactor 2, the structured packing module 100 comprising a structured packing 1 having a central axis 5x extending along a longitudinal direction, and may further comprise an inner tube 5 extending coaxially with the structured packing and along the longitudinal direction. The structured packing 1 includes a plurality of corrugated sheets 10, 20, 30, each arranged circumferentially around the central axis 5x and having a first end 101 and a second end 102 spaced apart from each other along the longitudinal direction. Each corrugated sheet 10, 20, 30 includes corrugations 9 extending between the first end 101 and the second end 102 and disposed at an acute angle A greater than or equal to 5 degree and less than or equal to 30 degree with respect to a line 5y parallel to the central axis 5x. The corrugated sheets 10, 20, 30 are arranged to radially overlap with each other such that the corrugations 9 of adjacently disposed corrugated sheets 10, 20, 30 are arranged in a crisscross relationship. The structured packing module 100 includes a gas flow path 40 comprising at least one inter-sheet gas flow path 42 defined between the adjacently disposed corrugated sheets 10, 20, 30.

The present technology relates generally to parallel passage contactors having active layers and methods for its use. Particularly, the present technology relates to parallel passage contactors having active layers with sorbents and/or catalysts and methods of use in sorptive gas separation and/or catalytic reactions.

A process is proposed for producing synthesis gas with reduced steam export by catalytic steam reforming of a hydrocarbonaceous feed gas with steam in a multitude of reformer tubes in a burner-heated reformer furnace to form a steam reforming flue gas. This process includes a configuration of the reformer tubes as reformer tubes with internal heat exchange and the use of a structured catalyst. For amounts of export steam between 0 and 0.8 kg of export steam per m.sub.N.sup.3 of hydrogen produced, these features interact synergistically when particular steam reforming conditions are selected.

The disclosure provides a structure that is used in the treatment of a fluid. The packing structure comprises a body having an axis. The packing structure also has at least one curved flow path that rotates around, and extends along at least a portion of, the axis of the body.

The invention relates to a catalyst filling, comprising a first layer of a planar catalyst material and a second layer of a planar catalyst material lying over said first layer, wherein the catalyst material of the first layer comprises at least two plates, which butt against each other to form an abutment edge in each case, wherein the catalyst material of the second layer comprises at least two plates, which butt against each other to form an abutment edge in each case, and wherein the plates of the second layer are designed and/or arranged relative to the plates of the first layer in such a way that the abutment edge or abutment edges of the second layer are not aligned with the abutment edge or abutment edges of the first layer.

An expandable center arrangement for a reactor is disclosed. The arrangement comprises an expansion tube; a center support inside the expansion tube and three or more spring elements. The spring elements are fastened to the center support and arc out to the expansion tube. A reactor is also disclosed.

The present invention relates to a saturator. The present invention further relates to a method for reusing a waste water stream from a Fischer-Tropsch reactor. The invention further relates to system for recycling waste water from a Fischer-Tropsch reactor preferably within a gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant.

Provided is a catalyst structure which prevents an increase in pressure loss by a simple construction while the gas flow is efficiently stirred by a structure making contact between adjacent catalyst elements. The catalyst structure is provided with a first flat-plate part and a second flat-plate part which support, on surfaces thereof, a constituent having catalytic activity to an exhaust gas and face each other, and a stirring part which is provided in such a manner as to come into contact first with the first flat-plate part and the second flat-plate part in an extending manner from the first flat-plate part to the second flat-plate part at a prescribed angle with respect to the direction in which the exhaust gas flows.

A catalyst includes a gas-permeable textile sheet material made of noble-metal-containing wire having a three-dimensional secondary structure produced thereon. The secondary structure is a three-dimensional dent structure including dents arranged adjacent to each other in rows in two spatial directions. The dents are in the form of a hexagon. The dent structure is formed by self-organization in a denting process.

A bayonet reactor including a catalytic reactor in the form of an annular structured packing is provided with increased surface area for the transfer of heat between annulus gas and return gas, an increased coefficient of heat transfer between the annulus and return gases, and a reduced overall pressure drop relative to conventional reactors. The reactors of the present technology can enable intensified catalytic processing.