US830015A - Apparatus for generating gas. - Google Patents

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N0. 880,015. PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906. M. D. SHAW & W. P. RHODY. APPARATUS FOR GENERATING GAS.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 6, 1906.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MELVILLE D. SHAW AND XVILLIAM P. RHODY, OF WVAPAKONETA, OHIO.

APPARATUS FOR GENERATING GAS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented Sept. 4:, 1906.

Application filed March 5,1906. Serial No. 4, 29,

To (all 1072,0727, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, MELVILLE D. SHAW and \VILLIAM P. RHODY, citizens of the United States, residing at l/Vapakoneta, in the county of Auglaize and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Apparatus for Generating Gas from Crude Oil, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide an apparatus or plant for use in generating gas from crude oil embodying an improved construction and assemblage of the parts; and the invention consists in certain constructions, arrangements, and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation with parts in section of our improved apparatus for producing gas. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof with parts in section.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates an air-compressor tank provided with an inlet or feed pipe 2, designed to be connected to an air-compressor of any desired type, and also provided, preferably, with a pressure-gage 3. An air-feed pipe 4 is secured at one end to the air-tank 1 and is provided with a globe-valve or similar valve 5, intended to regulate the volume or pressure of air fed from said pipe 4. The pipe 4 leads to the upper end of an oil-reservoir 6, so that.

the oil therein may be fed therefrom under pressure, and the pipe 4 is provided adjacent the oil-reservoir 6 with a valve 7, intended to regulate the pressure of air fed to the tank. The tank 6 is provided with a relief-valve or blow-off S.

9 designates an oil-supply tank which may be located at any desired distance from the remainder of the apparatus, preferably outside of the building and at any distance therefrom. The outlet-pipe 10 of the oil sup ply tank 9 is connected to a pump 11, which may be actuated by steam or air pressure, as desired. In the present instance the said pump is an air-pump and is actuated by means of the air from the air-tank 1'. this purposethe inlet-pipe 12 for the pump 11 is a branch of the pipe 4, to which it is preferably connected by a cruciform coupling 13. An air-regulating valve 14 for the pump may be interposed in this branch pipe 12. An outlet-pipe 15 of the pump is connected by a cross-coupling 16 to the oil-reservoir 6. A gage-pipe 17 is also connected to the coupling 16 and is provided with an airgage 18, and an oil glass gage 19 is also preferably connected to the pipe 17 in addition to a petcock or drain 20. The pipe 21 is at tached at one end to the outlet of the oilreservoir 6 and is also connected to the feedpipe 22, leading to fines 27 of a furnace 23. The pipe 21 is provided with a regulatingvalve 24 and with a check-valve 25, the latter being designed to prevent back pressure that might occur after the'air is relieved from the reservoir 6. A branch air-pipe 26 leads from the pipe 4 to the feed-pipe 22 of the fur.- nace, so that commingled air and oil are fed into the flues 27 of the furnace 23. The branch 26 is provided with a regulating-valve 28, so that the proper proportion of air may be commingled with the oil as the mixture is fed to the flues 27.

The furnace 23 may be of any desired type, and the mixture of oil and air has to pass through the flues 27, heated by the furnace,

and maybe sprayed upon, if desired, by either heated air or steam. The mixture of oil and air passes back and forth through the fines 27 which are preferably connected together at their opposite ends to provide a circuitous passage, and finally the gas that has been generated from the mixture of oil and air by means of the furnace 23 is fed therefrom by means of the pipe 29 into the cooling mechanism 30. This latter may be constructed of several tanks arranged so that the gas can pass through them successively or, it may be, as shown in the drawings composed of a series of coils immersed in water or the like to produce the right temperature for eflectively cooling the gas. The cooled gas is then fed by means of the pipe 31 first to the scrubber 32. The branch pipe 33, connecting the pipe 3 1 with the scrubber 32, is preferably provided with a burner 33, so that the quality of gas may be tested before being passed to the scrubbing devices. The said branch pipe 31 is also provided with a blow-off 34 for the purpose of allowing any impure gas to escape. The said blow-ofi' is provided with a valve For ICC

which is left open until the quantity of gas shown burning at the burner 33 is adjudged to be right, and it is then closed and another valve 35 is opened, so as to then permit the gas to pass into the lower end of the scrubber 32 by means of the pi e 36. The scrubber 32 may be partially fi led with purifying material of any desired character most suitable to the existing conditions such as lime, waste, charcoal, excelsior, iron-shavings, or other analogous material. The scrubber 32 is provided with an overflow-valve 37 for regulating the amount of scrubbing material. After the gas has passed through the several layers of purifying material in the scrubber 32 it passes out of the latter by means of the pipe 38 into the lower end of a purifier 40. In the present instance the purifier 40 preferably contains water and is provided with a bell 41 and an outlet-pipe 42, through which latter the gas passes into another scrubber or purifier 43, if desired, and. from them into other purifiers or scrubbers by the pipe 44 or into mains or storage-tanks.

It is to be understood that our invention is not lim ited to employing flues 27 in the furnace 23, as any desirable construction of furnace may be used, either with or without flues.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. The herein-described apparatus for producing gas from crude oil, comprising an oilsupply tank, an oil-reservoir connected therewith, a pump connected with the supply-tank and designed to pump the crude oil therefrom into the oil reservoir, a furnace provided with circulating-fines connected to the oilreservoir, a source of supply of compressed air operatively connected to the pump to actuate the same and also connected to the oilreservoir and the fines of the furnace whereby the crude oil will be pumped into the oil-reservoir, forced therefrom under pressure into the fines of the furnace, and mixed with air as it enters said fiues, and cooling and purifying devices connected to said fines and designed to receive therefrom in a successive manner the gas generated. in said flues by the heat from the furnace.

2. The herein-described apparatus for generating gas from crude oil, comprising a furnace provided with flues, an oil reservoir having a valved connection with said. flues, an oil-supply tank, an air-pump operatively connected to the oil-supply tank and having an oil-outlet pipe connected to the oilreservoir, an air-compressor tank, and a pipe 4 leading therefrom and leading into the upper end of the oil-reservoir, said. pipe being provided with two branches, one of said.

branches leading therefrom at a point be tween the oil-reservoir and compressor-tank to the air-pump and arranged to drive the same, and the other branch leading from said pipe at a point between the oil-reservoir and aircompressor, said last-named branch being connected to the pipe leading from the 0il-reservoir to the Hues, for the purpose specified and both said branch and the oil-pipe leading from the reservoir to the fines being provided with regulating-valves substantially as described.

3. An apparatus for generating gas from crude oil comprising a supply-tank for the crude oil, an oil-reservoir, a furnace provided with circulating-flues, a valved connection between the oil-reservoir and said flues, a source of supply of compressed air having a valved pipe 4 connecting it with the oil-reservoir and having a branch connection with the fines of the furnace so that the oil forced from the oil-reservoir by the air-pressure will be fed into the flues mixed with air, a valve in the branch between said fines and the source of supply of compressed air, and arranged to control the proportion of air mixed with the oil, cooling and purifying mechanisms designed to receive the gas generated. in said flues, a pump arranged to force the oil from the tank into the oil-reservoir, and a branch pipe 12 connected to the pipe 4 between the source of compressed-air supply and the oil-reservoir and also operatively connected to said pump to actuate the same.

4. An apparatus for the generation of gas from crude oil, comprising a supply-tank for the crude oil, an oil-reservoir, an air-pump designed to force the oil from the tank to the reservoir, a furnace provided with circulatingflues connected to the oil-reservoir, a compressed-air tank connected to said pump to actuate the same and also connected to the oil-reservoir, and provided with a branch connected to the flues, a valve in said branch designed to regulate the amount of air passed into the flues together with the oil from the oil-reservoir, a gas-cooling device connected to the outlet end of the flues and designed to receive the generated gas therefrom, a scrubbing mechanism connected to said cooling device and. purifiers operatively connected to said scrubbing device, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

MELVILLE D. SHAV. WILLIAM P. RHODY.

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