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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1981
Gerhard Ranke, Pocking, DE;
Horst Weiss, Munich, DE;
Linde Aktiengesellschaft, Wiesbaden, DE;
Abstract
In a system for the separation of sour gases especially hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide from a raw gaseous mixture e.g., hydrogen-containing in order to form a purified gaseous mixture, comprising scrubbing the gaseous mixture in a first scrubbing stage with a physical scrubbing liquid e.g., methanol having a higher absorbability for hydrogen sulfide than for carbon dioxide, withdrawing from the scrubbing stage a first stream of scrubbing liquid loaded with hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, and regenerating the loaded scrubbing liquid to form (a) a gaseous phase containing hydrogen sulfide, and (b) regenerated scrubbing liquid, the improvement of scrubbing said gaseous phase containing hydrogen sulfide in a second scrubbing stage with a stream of scrubbing liquid capable of absorbing additional H.sub.2 S, e.g., a CO.sub.2 -depleted stream from an H.sub.2 S enrichment column; and subjecting resultant second stream of scrubbing liquid loaded with hydrogen sulfide to a separation stage, preferably rectification, to form a bottoms of regenerated scrubbing liquid and an overhead of a gaseous phase rich in hydrogen sulfide irrespective of whether the raw gaseous mixture has a very low H.sub.2 S concentration.