期刊
JOURNAL OF NATURAL GAS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
卷 97, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2021.104378
关键词
Split flow; Sulfur recovery units; Reaction mechanism; BTEX reactions; Claus process
资金
- Petroleum Institute Gas Processing and Materials Science Research Centre [GRC19001]
- Khalifa University of Science and Technology [RC2-2018-024]
This paper proposes a split-flow sulfur recovery method to effectively destroy BTEX in the Claus furnace and reduce operational costs. Simulation results show that this configuration significantly improves BTEX destruction while maintaining sulfur recovery efficiency.
Sulfur recovery from acid gas containing H2S through Claus process is an efficient process. However, the acid gas contains several impurities such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (collectively known as BTEX), light aliphatic hydrocarbons, H2O, NH3, CO2, COS, CS2, and N-2. Among the hydrocarbons, while the aliphatics get destroyed in the Claus furnace, the aromatics (BTEX) often survive the high-temperature environment to reach the catalytic units to form soot deposits on the catalyst active sites and reduce their activity. This necessitates catalyst replacement and increases operational cost. This paper proposes a split-flow sulfur recovery method with enhanced gas temperature to effectively destroy BTEX in the Claus furnace to reduce the operational cost, where a portion of the acid gas feed is injected at the furnace inlet while the remaining is injected in the furnace in the post-combustion zone. A detailed reaction mechanism, developed for acid gas combustion and validated with experimental data, is utilized to conduct furnace simulations with the split-flow configuration to predict temperature, BTEX destruction, and acid gas conversion to sulfur. The results indicate that the suggested configuration for the Claus furnace can significantly improve BTEX destruction in the furnace with enhance temperature and SO2 concentration in the initial part of the furnace, while the sulfur recovery efficiency remains unaltered. The novel flow configuration for BTEX destruction also evades the need to co-fire natural gas in the furnace that was mandatory earlier to ensure BTEX destruction.
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