The reactor is a spouted bed of conical geometry with a cylindrical
upper section. The total height of the reactor is 34 cm, the
height of the conical section 20.5 cm, and the angle of the conical
section 28. The diameter of the cylindrical section is 12.3 cm,
the bottom diameter 2 cm and the gas inlet diameter 1 cm. The
reactor may operate from the regime of spouted bed to a vigorous
regime of jet spouted bed (or dilute spouted bed). The CSBR allows
continuous operation by selectively removing the char from the
bed, which avoids its accumulation throughout the pyrolysis process,
as described elsewhere