US 11,738,317 B2
Reactor for synthesizing methanol or other products
Ingi Mar Jonsson, Hafnarfjordur (IS); Emeric Sarron, Kopavogur (IS); and Asgeir Ivarsson, Kopavogur (IS)
Assigned to CRI, HF, Kopavogur (IS)
Filed by CRI, HF, Kopavogur (IS)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/574,992.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/138,022, filed on Jan. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0226795 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. B01J 8/02 (2006.01); B01J 8/06 (2006.01); C07C 29/152 (2006.01)
CPC B01J 8/0285 (2013.01) [B01J 8/025 (2013.01); B01J 8/0278 (2013.01); B01J 8/0292 (2013.01); B01J 8/065 (2013.01); C07C 29/152 (2013.01); B01J 2208/00061 (2013.01); B01J 2208/00106 (2013.01); B01J 2208/00336 (2013.01); B01J 2208/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A reactor comprising:
a shell defining an internal space configured to receive a catalyst;
at least one inlet nozzle; and
a tube bundle comprising a plurality of tubes arranged in concentric bands about a longitudinal axis of the reactor;
wherein the reactor further comprises at least one tube support plate, wherein the at least one tube support plate comprises at least one circumferential band, wherein the at least one circumferential band comprises at least one bracket configured to extend about a portion of a tube of the tube bundle.