Mid-east crude oil generally contains 2-4%sulfur.When this oil is usedfor Texaco gasifier as raw material, and the generated gas is introduced to hot carbonate or MEA CO
2 removal unit after CO is converted to H
2 and CO
2 without foregoing desulfurization, most of the sulfur contained in the charge oil will enter into the regenerated CO
2, and H
2S content in CO
2 will be as much as about 1-2%.
In order to desulfurize CO
2 with absorption method, there would be no other better processthan Alkazid-Dik process and dry box process is expensive in the cost of equipment and operation.To convert H
2S to S by Claus process, H
2S content is too low.
Author established a new process for the desulfurization of CO
2.In this process, H
2S in CO
2 is catalytically converted to SO
2 adding 0
2 before converter.Then, after purifyingthe converted gas, SO
2 is scrubbed and recovered by NH
4HS0
3-(NH
4)
2S0
3 solution, which is used for (NH
4)
2SO
4 manufacture after H
2SO
4 addition and SO
2 recovery.
Author designed and constructed a plant by this process.In this report, the reaction conditions and catalysts for the catalytic oxidation of H
2S are investigated.At the temperature lower than 500°C, ZnO catalyst and Fe
2O
3 catalyst have shown H
2S conversion greater than 99.8% at the residual 0
2 of 0.1-0.2%.Generation of SO
3 mist was not observed and increase of organic sulfur was very small.
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