Process for the desulfurization of a crude gas containing H.sub.2 S

US5628977A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Linde GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Michael Heisel · Munich, DE
• Freimut Marold · Dorsten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 26, 1995
• Grant date: May 13, 1997
• Expiry date: May 26, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A50/20
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a process for the desulfurization of a crude gas stream containing at least H.sub.2 S in a Claus plant, afterburning of Claus waste gas, and gas washing of the waste gas from the afterburning to remove SO.sub.2, in which SO.sub.2 recovered by the gas washing is recycled to a point before the Claus plant. According to the invention, within the Claus plant, between 60% and 90%, preferably between 67% and 85%, and especially preferably between 67% and 80% of the sulfur contained in the crude gas is separated directly from the crude gas, and between 33% and 10%, preferably between 25% and 10%, and especially preferably between 20% and 15% of the sulfur originally contained in the crude gas is recycled as SO.sub.2. The gas washing to remove SO.sub.2 is advantageously carried out with an absorbing agent having a physical action. A partial stream of the crude gas can be conveyed directly into the afterburning, bypassing the Claus plant. In addition to a Claus reactor operated at a temperature of between 850.degree. and 1300.degree. C., preferably between 900.degree. and 1100.degree. C., the Claus plant can contain one or more catalytic and/or thermal reactors for …