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Process of desulfurizing hot gases. [8 claims; 1 drawing]

Patent ·
OSTI ID:7144146
Gases produced by reacting fuels with oxygen containing gases and water vapor under pressure are desulfurized by scrubbing with a concentrated solution of one or more alkali salts of weak inorganic acids at a temperature near the atmospheric-pressure boiling point of the solution in a column while maintaining an exchange ratio of from 0.2 to 2.0 cubic meters of the concentrated solution per standard cubic meter hydrogen sulfide in the gas to be purified.
Assignee:
Metallgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft
Patent Number(s):
US 3931389
OSTI ID:
7144146
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English