Liquid redox sulfur recovery options, costs, and environmental considerations for the natural gas industry

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5533782

Dalrymple, D A; Trofe, W ^[1]

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1. Radian Corp. (US)

Liquid redox chemistry has been employed for sulfur removal and recovery applications since the 1950's. The first process to be used commercially was the Stretford process, which was used extensively in the United States in the 1960's as a replacement for the iron sponge process in the treatment of sour town gas. In recent years, the Stretford process has been joined in the United State' marketplace by several other liquid redox processes including the Unisulf, Sulfolin, LO-CAT, SulFerox, and Hiperion processes. This paper describes the chemistry and engineering options available with each process, as well as the environmental and cost considerations associated with these processes.

• OSTI ID: 5533782
• Report Number(s): CONF-881143-
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting, Washington, DC (USA), 27 Nov - 2 Dec 1988; Other Information: Technical Paper 64D
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

03 NATURAL GAS
37 INORGANIC
ORGANIC
PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
SULFUR
RECOVERY
AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT
CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
COST
HYDROGEN SULFIDES
REDOX PROCESS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
CHALCOGENIDES
ELEMENTS
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INDUSTRY
KINETICS
MANAGEMENT
NONMETALS
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
REACTION KINETICS
REPROCESSING
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SULFIDES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
030800* - Natural Gas- Environmental Aspects
030700 - Natural Gas- Waste Management
400201 - Chemical & Physicochemical Properties