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Recovery of ammonia and pyridine bases in spray-nozzle scrubbers

Journal Article · · Coke Chem., USSR (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
OSTI ID:5809352

The use of saturatorless apparatus for ammonia recovery is restricting the increase in throughput capacity of the coke-oven gas processing apparatus which is necessary in view of the adoption of thermally prepared charge and the consequent large increase in coke-oven gas volumes. Basic design data have been compiled at the West Siberian Iron and Steel Works for the construction of spray-nozzle scrubbers by experiments with the existing standard saturatorless apparatus. The ammonia recovery performance of the stage I scrubbers was found to depend entirely on two factors, viz., the coke-oven gas throughput per scrubber and the mother-liquor acidity. It was completely unaffected by the mother-liquor throughput rate over the range 170 to 230 m/sup 3//h. In stage II, the results showed that the only factor significantly influencing the relative ammonia losses in the coke-oven gas was the mother-liquor throughput rate. Based on the results of these experiments, new scrubbers were designed to handle higher flow rates in the Stage II scrubbers. In Stage I the recommendations were to increase the height of the scrubbers and to add more spray nozzles. (LTN)

OSTI ID:
5809352
Journal Information:
Coke Chem., USSR (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: Coke Chem., USSR (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 8; ISSN COKCA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English