Removal of CO.sub.2 and/or H.sub.2 S from gases

US4553984A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Klaus Volkamer · Bischofswerda, DE
• Eckhart Wagner · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Ulrich Wagner · Bernburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 6, 1984
• Grant date: Nov 19, 1985
• Expiry date: Mar 6, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/151
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

CO.sub.2 and/or H.sub.2 S are removed from gases which contain CO.sub.2 and/or H.sub.2 S by a process in which the said gas is treated, in an absorption stage at from 40.degree. to 100.degree. C., with an aqueous absorption liquid containing from 20 to 70% by weight of methyldiethanolamine, the treated gas is taken off at the top of the absorption stage, the aqueous absorption liquid laden with CO.sub.2 and/or H.sub.2 S is taken off at the bottom of the absorption stage and then regenerated by being let down in one or more flash stages, the flash gases being taken off at the top of the flash stage or flash stages, the losses of water as a result of water present in the gas streams taken off at the top of the absorption stage and of the flash stage or flash stages are compensated by feeding in, at the bottom of the last flash stage or, where only one flash stage is used, at the bottom of this, and amount of steam corresponding to the water loss, and the regenerated absorption liquid is recycled to the absorption stage.