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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:
Apr. 13, 2010

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2008
Applicants:

Zeru Berhane Tekie, Newark, DE (US);

Luis Alberto Chu, Landenberg, PA (US);

Eugene F. Hartstein, Newark, DE (US);

Inventors:

Zeru Berhane Tekie, Newark, DE (US);

Luis Alberto Chu, Landenberg, PA (US);

Eugene F. Hartstein, Newark, DE (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 17/50 (2006.01); C01B 31/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A process for treating acid gas comprising hydrogen sulfide comprises introducing a first acid gas into a reducing furnace to produce a first oxidized gas stream, cooling the first oxidized gas stream in a first heat recovery system, introducing the cooled gas stream into an oxidizing furnace to produce a second oxidized gas stream and cooling the second oxidized gas stream in a second heat recovery system. The acid gas is preferably produced in a refinery after treatment of sour gas or sour water. Spent acid may be fed into oxidizing furnace as part of a sulfuric acid recovery process. The spent acid can be spent sulfuric acid from a sulfuric acid alkylation process.


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