Chemistry of inorganic compounds – Modifying or removing component of normally gaseous mixture – Molecular oxygen or ozone component
Patent
1977-01-31
1978-05-09
Cooper, Jack
Chemistry of inorganic compounds
Modifying or removing component of normally gaseous mixture
Molecular oxygen or ozone component
423245, 55 68, 55 73, 423220, 423224, 423228, 423236, 423238, 423240, 423243, B01D 5334
Patent
active
040887359
ABSTRACT:
A process for purifying gases produced by the gasification of fossil fuels by a treatment with water vapor and oxygen under superatmospheric pressure. The raw gas produced is treated to remove catalyst-deteriorating impurities such as mono- and polyunsaturated hydrocarbons, mercaptans, HCN, HCl, H.sub.2 S, CS.sub.2, COS, and NH.sub.3, and to desulfurize the gas to produce an exhaust gas which is rich in H.sub.2 S. The gas is cooled and scrubbed under superatmospheric pressures and at normal temperatures. The raw gas, at a temperature of 150.degree.-170.degree. C., is indirectly cooled to ambient temperature. The condensible hydrocarbons are then separated and removed, and the gas is then scrubbed with water to remove ammonia in a first scrubbing stage wherein the rate of water addition is controlled to be just sufficient to remove the ammonia. The gas is then scrubbed with a high-boiling organic solvent which is miscible with water and to which sulfur has been added in a second scrubbing stage in which the rate of solvent addition is controlled in dependence on the solubility of the methyl mercaptan, which is to be removed, in the solvent. The gas is scrubbed with the same solvent in a third scrubbing stage in which the water content of the solvent is kept at 5-30 mol percent H.sub.2 O in which H.sub.2 S and COS are entirely and selectively removed from the gas. Lastly, the scrubbing agents from the second and third scrubbing stages are separately regenerated and recycled to the second and the third scrubbing stages for re-use.
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Bratzler Karl
Doerges Alexander
Hochgesand Gerhard
Kriebel Manfred
Cooper Jack
Metallgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft
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