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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 1986
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1985
Herbert Fischer, Lollar, DE;
Manfred Kriebel, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Metallgesellschaft AG, Frankfurt, DE;
Abstract
The feed gas is partially burnt with oxygen-containing gas in a thermal Claus process plant, in which temperatures in the range of 850.degree. to 1350.degree. C. is maintained. Product gas which has been produced is passed through a catalytic Claus process plant (Claus catalysis plant), from which sulfur is withdrawn. The exhaust gas from the Claus catalysis plant is supplied to a desulfurizing plant. The sulfur compounds in the exhaust gas of the desulfurizing plant are converted to SO.sub.2 in a thermal aftertreating unit. When the rate of the H.sub.2 S-containing feed gas is below a limit, which is between 20 to 35% of the total rate of feed gas permissible for the thermal Claus process plant, then recycled exhaust gas from the desulfurizing plant (recycle gas) is admixed to the feed gas at such a rate that the rate of the mixed feed and recycle gases exceeds that limit. The recycle gas is suitably heated to 200.degree. to 400.degree. C. before it is mixed with the feed gas.