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Title: Utilizing secondary heat to heat wash oil in the coke-oven gas desulfurization division

Journal Article · · Coke Chem. USSR (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
OSTI ID:5399557

Removal of hydrogen sulfide from the coke-oven gas by the vacuum-carbonate method involves significant energy costs, comprising about 47% of the total costs of the process. This is explained by the significant demand of steam for regeneration of the wash oil, the cost of which exceeds 30% of the total operating costs. The boiling point of the saturated wash oil under vacuum does not exceed 70/sup 0/C, thus the wash oil entering the regenerator can be heated either by the direct coke-oven gas or by the tar supernatant from the gas collection cycle. Utilizing the secondary heat of the direct coke-oven gas and the tar supernatant liquor (the thermal effect is approximately the same) to heat the wash oil from the gas desulfurization shops significantly improves the industrial economic indices. Heating the wash oil from gas desulfurization shops using the vacuum-carbonate method by the heat of the tar supernatant liquor may be adopted at a number of coking plants which have a scarcity of thermal resources and which have primary coolers with vertical tubes.

OSTI ID:
5399557
Journal Information:
Coke Chem. USSR (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Vol. 6; Other Information: Translated from Koks Khim.; No. 6, 39-40(1981)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English