Sri International

Alstom Technology Limited

Eig, Inc.

Indira S Jayaweera

Eli Gal

Gopala N Krishnan

David S Ross

Roald N Leif

Angel Sanjurjo

Palitha Jayaweera

Otto Morten Bade

David C Bomberger

Srinivas Bhamidi

Georgina P Hum

Lien Nguyen

Werner R Haag

Low-cost and energy-efficient COand HS capture is provided obtaining greater than 99.9% capture efficiency from pressurized gas. The acid species are captured in an ammonia solution, which is then regenerated by stripping the absorbed species. The solution can capture as much as 330 grams of COand HS per 1000 gram of water and when regenerated it produces pure pressurized acid gas containing more than 99.7% COand H2S. The absorption of the acid species is accomplished in two absorbers in-series, each having multiple stages. More than 95% of the acid species are captured in the first absorber and the balance is captured in the second absorber to below 10 ppm concentration in the outlet gas. The two absorbers operate at temperatures ranging from 20-70 degrees Celsius. The two absorbers and the main stripper of the alkaline solution operate at similar pressures ranging from 5-200 bara.

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The technical field of the invention is COcapture and sequestration, as well as gas separation and purification technologies. In an aspect is a process for capturing purified COfrom a CO-containing gas, comprising steps: (a) contacting in an absorber column the CO-containing gas with an absorption solution comprising water, ammonia, and potassium carbonate, to enable adsorption of CO, thereby producing a CO-depleted gas and a CO-rich solution; and (b) subjecting the CO-rich solution to desorption conditions in a regeneration column producing a purified COgas stream and a CO-depleted solution.

The invention provides methods for preparing an asymmetric hollow fiber, the asymmetric hollow fibers prepared by such methods, and uses of the asymmetric hollow fibers. One method involves passing a polymeric solution through an outer annular orifice of a tube-in-orifice spinneret, passing a bore fluid though an inner tube of the spinneret, dropping the polymeric solution and bore fluid through an atmosphere over a dropping distance, and quenching the polymeric solution and bore fluid in a bath to form an asymmetric hollow fiber.

Process for fabricating PBI hollow fiber asymmetric membranes for gas separation and liquid separation

A method and system for reducing an amount of ammonia in a flue gas stream. The systemincludes: a wash vesselfor receiving an ammonia-containing flue gas stream, the wash vesselincluding a first absorption stageand a second absorption stage, each of the first absorption stageand the second absorption stagehaving a mass transfer device; and a liquidintroduced to the wash vessel, the liquidfor absorbing ammonia from the ammonia-containing flue gas streamthereby forming an ammonia-rich liquidand a reduced ammonia containing flue gas streamexiting the wash vessel

A method and system for COcapture from flue gas uses an absorber vessel in which a flue gas stream containing COis contacted with an ammoniated solution to remove COfrom the flue gas, and a regenerator vessel in which COis released from the ammoniated solution. Parasitic energy consumption of the system can be reduced by adding to the ammoniated solution a promoter effective to enhance the formation of ammonium bicarbonate within the ammoniated solution. The amount of ammoniated solution recycled from the regenerator vessel to the absorber vessel is less than that which would be required using the ammoniated solution without the promoter for removal of the same amount of COfrom the flue gas.

A chilled ammonia based COcapture system and method is provided. A promoter is used to help accelerate certain capture reactions that occur substantially coincident to and/or as a result of contacting a chilled ammonia based ionic solution with a gas stream that contains CO.

A process for hot or supercritical water oxidative decomposition of wastes, particularly halogenated organic compounds, is described. The process employs a heterogeneous reagent which accelerates the decomposition and is effective to neutralize acidic byproducts. The reagent is maintained in suspension throughout the reaction by operating at conditions of temperature and pressure at which the heterogeneous reagent is largely or fully insoluble in water, and preferably at which liquid water is not present. Production of potentially corrosive brine is also minimized by operating at conditions under which sodium chloride is insoluble.

Hydrothermal oxidation of organic compounds with heterogenous

This invention relates to a process for the decomposition of material selected from the group consisting of organic compounds, inorganic compounds, or combinations thereof to compounds which are environmentally acceptable, or are amenable to further degradation by conventional disposal systems to produce environmentally acceptable products, which process comprises: (a) conveying an aqueous solution or an aqueous slurry of material into a reaction zone capable of withstanding the temperatures and pressures of decomposition of the material; (b) contacting the material in the reaction zone with aqueous sodium carbonate as a reactant in an amount effective to decompose the material under hot water or supercritical water oxidation conditions of between about 300.degree. and 600.degree. C. and a pressure of between about 20 and 400 atmospheres for between 0.1 and 120 min, wherein the sodium carbonate at the reaction conditions is present at about 10% or less as a water soluble salt as compared to the solubility of the salt at ambient conditions, wherein the process occurs in the presence of a gaseous oxidant present in an amount of between about 0.1 and 50% by weight of the material; (c) producing about 99% or greater of the decomposition of the material, or 99% or greater conversion of the material to compounds which are environmentally acceptable or to compounds which are amendable to further degradation; and (d) optionally degrading further the compounds produced in step (c) by reaction to environmentally acceptable products. Preferably, the specific reactant is sodium carbonate and the oxidant is oxygen or air.

Method for hot and supercritical water oxidation of material with

This invention relates to a process for the decomposition of material selected from halogenated organic compounds, to compounds which are environmentally acceptable, or are amenable to further degradation by conventional disposal systems to produce environmentally acceptable products, which process comprises: (a) conveying an aqueous solution or an aqueous slurry of material into a reaction zone capable of withstanding the temperatures and pressures of decomposition of the material; (b)contacting the material in the reaction zone with aqueous sodium carbonate as a reactant in an amount effective to decompose the material under hydrothermal oxidation conditions of between about 300.degree. and 400.degree. C. and a pressure of between about 20 and 400 atmospheres for between 0.01 and 120 min wherein the sodium carbonate at the reaction conditions is present at about 10% or less as a water soluble salt as compared to the solubility of the salt at ambient conditions, wherein the process occurs in the presence of a gaseous oxidant wherein said oxidant is present in an amount of between about 0.01 and 50% by weight of the material; (c) producing about 99% or greater of the decomposition of the material, or 99% or greater conversion of the material to compounds which are environmentally acceptable or to compounds which are amendable to further degradation; and (d) optionally degrading further the compounds produced in step (c) by reaction to environmentally acceptable products. Preferably, the specific reactant is sodium carbonate and the oxidant is oxygen or air. Preferably, the halogenated organic compound is selected from polychlorobiphenyl, polybromobiphenyl or chlorobenzodioxin compounds.

Method for hydrothermal oxidation of halogenated organic compounds with

The present invention relates to a process for the disposal of waste or the conversion of hydrothermally labile chemical groups and compounds to species which are environmentally acceptable, or are amendable to further degradation by conventional disposal systems to produce environmentally acceptable products, which process comprises:

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Indira S Jayaweera