US 7,468,167 B2
Method for starting up reactor and reactor system
Yukihiro Matsumoto, Kobe (Japan); Takeshi Nishimura, Himeji (Japan); Hideki Sogabe, Kobe (Japan); Kazuhiko Sakamoto, Himeji (Japan); and Osamu Dodo, Hyogo (Japan)
Assigned to Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd., Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 07, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/221,213.
Application 11/221213 is a division of application No. 09/845694, filed on Apr. 30, 2001, granted, now 6,946,573.
Claims priority of application No. 2000-133577 (JP), filed on May 02, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2006/0009655 A1, Jan. 12, 2006
Int. Cl. F28D 7/00 (2006.01); F28D 21/00 (2006.01); F28D 15/00 (2006.01); C07C 53/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 422—201  [422/198; 422/200; 422/206; 562/545; 562/400; 562/512; 562/523; 562/542; 562/544; 165/104.12; 165/161] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A reactor system comprising a reactor, gas heating means for heating gas introduced into reaction tubes of the reactor, a plurality of chambers formed in said reactor being partitioned with an intermediate tube sheet, means for storing a heat medium led out of said chambers, heating means for heating the heat medium led out of said storing means, and means for supplying said heat medium heated by said heating means to an elevated temperature to at least one of said chambers, wherein said storing mean comprises one tank capable of storing at least part of the heat medium in said component chambers and said tank has a volume smaller than the amount of the heat medium circulated within the component chambers.