Removal of hydrogen sulfide from sour water

Liquid purification or separation – Processes – Making an insoluble substance or accreting suspended...

Patent

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

606412, 210718, 210721, 210750, 210763, 4235731, C02F 174

Patent

active

052863891

ABSTRACT:
Sour water is treated to remove dissolved hydrogen sulfide by means of an aqueous, non-chelated polyvalent metal solution in a continuous recirculating system, particularly an autocirculation system, having reaction and oxygenation zones. The solution contains a small catalytic amount of polyvalent metal, e.g., ferrous or ferric iron salts, and the dissolved hydrogen sulfide is oxidized to sulfur in the liquid phase, without chelating agent solution, by means of dissolved oxygen in the solution. The sour water feed to the reaction zone is diluted by a massive recycle of oxygenated solution from the oxygenation zone before the sour water is contacted with air or other oxidizing gas used for oxygenating the used solution. A portion of the oxygenated solution containing polyvalent metal, without added chelating agent, is removed as the sweet water product, and replacement polyvalent metal is added. The operating variables are controlled to maintain in the solution a predetermined polyvalent metal content and an effective dissolved oxygen content, and also to maintain a predetermined residence time so as to obtain high efficiency of hydrogen sulfide removal.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4076621 (1978-02-01), Hardison
patent: 4224151 (1980-09-01), Jost
patent: 4363215 (1982-12-01), Sharp
patent: 4414817 (1983-11-01), Jernigan
patent: 4446031 (1984-05-01), List
patent: 4451442 (1984-05-01), Jeffrey et al.
patent: 4468929 (1984-09-01), Jernigan
patent: 4614644 (1986-09-01), Lampton, Jr. et al.
patent: 4629608 (1986-12-01), Lampton, Jr. et al.
patent: 4696802 (1987-09-01), Bedell
patent: 4784775 (1988-11-01), Hardison
patent: 5126118 (1992-06-01), Hardison

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Removal of hydrogen sulfide from sour water does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Removal of hydrogen sulfide from sour water, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Removal of hydrogen sulfide from sour water will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1204346

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.