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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2020
Applicant:

Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US);

Inventors:

Paul Scott Northrop, Spring, TX (US);

John Timothy Cullinane, Montgomery, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 3/00 (2006.01); C10L 3/10 (2006.01); C01B 17/05 (2006.01); C01B 17/04 (2006.01); B01D 53/14 (2006.01); B01D 53/18 (2006.01); B01D 53/52 (2006.01); B01D 53/78 (2006.01); B01D 53/84 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 17/05 (2013.01); B01D 53/1406 (2013.01); B01D 53/1418 (2013.01); B01D 53/1425 (2013.01); B01D 53/1462 (2013.01); B01D 53/18 (2013.01); B01D 53/526 (2013.01); B01D 53/78 (2013.01); B01D 53/84 (2013.01); C01B 17/0408 (2013.01); C10L 3/103 (2013.01); C12P 3/00 (2013.01); B01D 2251/95 (2013.01); B01D 2252/20431 (2013.01); C10L 2290/542 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for recovering sulfur within a gas processing system is described herein. The method includes contacting a natural gas stream including an acid gas with a solvent stream within a co-current contacting system to produce a sweetened natural gas stream and a rich solvent stream including an absorbed acid gas. The method also includes removing the absorbed acid gas from the rich solvent stream within a regenerator to produce a concentrated acid gas stream and a lean solvent stream. The method further includes recovering elemental sulfur from hydrogen sulfide (HS) within the concentrated acid gas stream via a sulfur recovery unit.


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