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Waldemar Weber

Hugo Grimm

Michael Tacke

Karl H Dorr

Ulrich Heinrich Sander

Karl-Heinz Dorr

Georg Schmidt

Helmut Diekmann

Gustav Rowedder

A process for the production of sulfuric acid from wet sulfur dioxide containing gases is disclosed. The sulfur dioxide containing gas is initially purified and cooled, then predried with dilute sulfuric acid, finally dried with concentrated sulfuric acid, converted to sulfur trioxide catalytically and, the sulfur trioxide is absorbed in sulfuric acid. Preliminary drying removes more water than needed to maintain the water balance in the following process steps. A portion of the dilute acid from the preliminary drying is concentrated prior to recycle to the preliminary drying step and another portion of the acid from the preliminary dryer is added to the sulfur trioxide absorber to adjust the water balance in the acid circulating between the final dryer and the sulfur trioxide absorber.

Process of producing sulfuric acid

Sulfuric acid is produced from sulfur trioxide-containing humid gases by a process wherein the sulfur trioxide-containing humid gases are directly cooled with aqueous sulfuric acid, sulfuric acid is condensed and the gas is cooled below dew point of the sulfuric acid, and the water not required to form sulfuric acid is discharged as water vapor with the end gases.

Process for producing sulfuric acid

A catalytic reactor for converting sulfur dioxide to sulfur trioxide, suitable for high throughput rates of up to about 500,000 standard cubic meters per hour. The reactor includes a plurality of separate reaction chambers each containing catalyst trays connected in parallel in the gas flow path. The catalyst trays define gas spaces and alternate gas spaces are provided with inlets for supplying a partial stream of the sulfur dioxide containing gases which are divided in the gas spaces. The gas spaces adjacent to the gas spaces provided with inlets are provided with outlets for withdrawing partial streams of the gases which have passed through the catalyst trays.

Catalytic reactor having annular catalyst tray means

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