High-efficiency process for production of sulfur from metallurgical sulfur dioxide gases


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Abstract

Process in which sulfur is produced from a gas containing 25–55% SO2 was studied in order to evaluate the real efficiency of the catalytic post-reduction of sulfur dioxide in a pilot unit with gas flow rate of up to 1.2 nm3 h–1 at the following temperatures (°C): thermal stage 850–1100, catalytic conversion 350–570, and Claus reactor 219–279. It was found that the conversion at 400–550°C and space velocity of 1600 h–1 on AOK-78-57 promoted aluminum oxide catalyst provides full processing of organosulfur compounds (CS2 and COS). The temperature dependence of the conversion/generation of hydrogen sulfide on AOK-78-57 catalyst corresponds to the equilibrium model. It was experimentally confirmed that the homogeneous reduction of sulfur dioxide gas with methane at T ≈ 1100°C, with catalytic post-reduction at 400–550°C and subsequent Claus-conversion of the reduced gas at 230–260°C, provide a sufficiently deep (by 92–95%) general processing of sulfur dioxide gas to sulfur.

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O. I. Platonov

JSC “Institut Gipronikel,”

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Email: oipla@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Grazhdanskii pr. 11, St. Petersburg, 195229

L. Sh. Tsemekhman

JSC “Institut Gipronikel,”

Email: oipla@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Grazhdanskii pr. 11, St. Petersburg, 195229

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