The invention is used to thermochemically produce
syngas using a fixed-
bed shaft reactor (1) that is operated in a co-
current mode and has a
reaction chamber through which carbon-containing synthetic substances (2) and / or
solid biomass particles (3) flow from top to bottom. By continuously adding an
oxygen-containing gas (7) in an autothermal gassing process, a raw
syngas is produced in the shaft reactor (1) as the gas flows through a fuel pre-heating zone (4), a
pyrolysis zone (5), and an
oxidation zone (6) arranged downstream thereof, and the
syngas is drawn at the lower end of the fixed-
bed shaft reactor (9) together with
fly ash after additionally flowing through a reduction zone (8). After exiting the reduction zone (8), the raw syngas flows through an entrained-flow zone (12) which is located below the reduction zone (8) in the reactor. In order to improve the efficiency by using the sensible
excess heat of the produced syngas, the invention proposes providing an inlet for the
oxygen-containing gas (7) below the reduction zone (8), and the
walling of the reactor in the entrained-flow zone (12) is designed to be double-walled at least in some regions in the form of a
heat exchanger with at least one
heat exchanger surface (18), wherein the
oxygen-containing gas is conducted through a gas pre-heating zone (17) formed in the
heat exchanger such that the outflowing raw syngas is cooled, and the oxygen-containing gas is heated.