Combustion assistant for coke type hydrocarbon substance

TLDR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to make the handling of the title combustion assistant safe and permit the combustion and removal of coke type hydrocarbon at a lower temperature, by a method wherein the weight ratio of a copper compound to a potassium compound is specified and the powder of silica or the like is made to exist in a specified ratio with respect to the total amount of both compounds.

Abstract: PURPOSE:To make the handling of the title combustion assistant safe and permit the combustion and removal of coke type hydrocarbon at a lower temperature, by a method wherein the weight ratio of a copper compound to a potassium compound is specified and the powder of silica or the like is made to exist in a specified ratio with respect to the total amount of both compounds. CONSTITUTION:The title combustion assistant is the physical mixture of powdered copper compound, selected from cuprous chloride, cupric chloride and copper nitrate, powdered potassium compound, selected from potassium chloride and/or potassium nitrate, and powder, selected from silica, alumina, silica alumina, zeorite and clay, and the weight ratio of the copper compound in the mixture to the potassium compound in the same is 5:95-90:10 while the powder of silica or the like is made to exist in the weight parts of 20-300 with respect to the total amount 100 weight parts of both compounds. When about 5-15weight% of hydrocarbon is absorbed and carried by the powder of silica or the like under the boiling point of about 350 deg.C or higher, igniting property and combustion property are further promoted. When rice powder, rice bran, wood powder or the like is blended into combustion assistant consisting of the mixture, it may serve to prevent the high-temperature fusing of the copper compound and the potassium compound.