Crystatech, Inc.

Dennis Dalrymple

David W DeBerry

Kevin S Fisher

A process for removing H S from a gaseous stream, wherein the gaseous stream is flowed through an absorber vessel where the stream is contacted with a sorbing liquor comprising a nonaqueous solvent containing dissolved sulfur, a tertiary amine base having sufficient strength and concentration to drive the reaction between H S sorbed by the liquor and the dissolved sulfur to form a nonvolatile polysulfide which is soluble in the sorbing liquor, and a solubilizing agent for maintaining the solubility of polysulfide intermediates which may otherwise separate. The dissolved nonvolatile polysulfide in the sorbing liquor is converted to sulfur which remains dissolved in the liquor by contacting the liquor with oxidizing sulfur dioxide. The sorbing liquor following the oxidation of the polysulfide is cooled to a temperature at which the liquor is at or above saturation with respect to the dissolved sulfur. At least part of the dissolved sulfur in the saturated liquor is converted to solid particulate sulfur at a point downstream of the absorber vessel, and the solid sulfur is separated from the liquor.

Process for removing hydrogen sulfide from gas streams which include or are supplemented with sulfur dioxide, by scrubbing with a nonaqueous sorbent

In a known process and system wherein hydrogen sulfide is removed from a gaseous stream, using a non-aqueous scrubbing liquor which can be an organic solvent for elemental sulfur such as a phenylxylyl ethane in which are dissolved sulfur and a reaction-promoting amine base such as a tertiary amine, sulfur dioxide is added to the sulfur-amine nonaqueous sorbent (or advantage is taken of SO which may already be present in the gas stream) to obtain better H S removal, lower chemical degradation rates, and lower rates of formation of byproduct sulfur salts such as sulfates.

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Dennis Dalrymple