Status of the EIC process for hydrogen sulfide abatement

Conference · Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980 · Trans. - Geotherm. Resour. Counc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6167224

Brown, F C; Dyer, W H

Development of effective, economic control techniques for hydrogen sulfide emissions would remove a major environmental impediment to the future development of geothermal resources both in the United States and abroad. In a five-year development program, EIC Corporation has verified the process concept in laboratory and field tests, and designed, built and tested an integrated, one-tenth commercial scale pilot plant at The Geysers. The process, designated CUPROSUL, is based on a recycled copper salt scrub solution with the sulfur being rejected in the form of ammonium sulfate. The six month pilot plant test demonstrated the ability of the CUPROSUL process to deal with varying steam inputs, to average high degrees (97%) of hydrogen sulfide removal efficiency, to remove ammonia, boric acid and other contaminants, and to operate in a continuous manner. The process engineering design for commercial scale is complete for continuous, instrumented operation at a geothermal power generation site.

• Research Organization: EIC Corp., Newton, MA
• OSTI ID: 6167224
• Report Number(s): CONF-800920-
• Journal Information: Trans. - Geotherm. Resour. Counc.; (United States), Vol. 4; Conference: Geothermal Resource Council annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 9 Sep 1980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
GEOTHERMAL FLUIDS
SCRUBBING
GEYSERS GEOTHERMAL FIELD
AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT
HYDROGEN SULFIDES
REMOVAL
AMMONIA
BORIC ACID
PILOT PLANTS
REGENERATION
SEPARATION PROCESSES
CHALCOGENIDES
FLUIDS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
GEOTHERMAL FIELDS
HYDRIDES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INORGANIC ACIDS
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN HYDRIDES
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
SULFIDES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
150600* - Geothermal Energy- Environmental Aspects