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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 1983
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1980
Karl-Heinz Dorr, Mainz, DE;
Hugo Grimm, Miltenberg, DE;
Ulrich Sander, Friedrichsdorf, DE;
Robert Peichl, Kelheim, DE;
Franz Maier, Mark Schwaben, DE;
Metallgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Sudchemie Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
SO.sub.2 -containing, hot gases are catalytically converted in part in a first contacting stage. The water and the SO.sub.3 formed is removed from the reaction gas. The remaining gas is heated and then supplied to the second contacting stage. The water vapor content in the reaction gas delivered by a first contacting stage corresponds to an H.sub.2 O/SO.sub.3 mole ratio below 1. The reaction gas delivered by the first contacting stage is precooled by an indirect heat exchange to such a temperature that the wall temperatures of the heat exchanger are above the dew point temperature of the reaction gas. The precooled reaction gas entering a condensing stage is contacted in a venturi with cocurrent sulfuric acid of 98.0 to 100% concentration and a temperature of at least 95.degree. C. The exit temperature of the gas from the condensing stage is maintained at least at 120.degree. C. The gas rises in a succeeding absorption stage through a packing layer, which is contacted with trickling sulfuric acid having a concentration of 98 to 100% and a temperature of 70.degree. to 120.degree. C. The dry gas which leaves the absorption stage and has been freed from SO.sub.3 is maintained at a temperature which is as high as or slightly higher than the temperature of the acid as it initially contacts the packing in the absorption stage. The sulfuric acid concentration is controlled by a supply of water into the sulfuric acid in the condensing and/or absorption stage.