Removing sulphur oxides from a fluid stream

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8691171
APP PUB NO 20130259789A1
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13782290

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A process for removing sulphur oxides from a fluid stream, such as flue gas, comprising: providing a non-aqueous absorption liquid containing at least one hydrophobic amine, the liquid being incompletely miscible with water; treating the fluid stream in an absorption zone with the non-aqueous absorption liquid to transfer at least part of the sulphur oxides into the non-aqueous absorption liquid and to form a sulphur oxide-hydrophobic amine-complex; causing the non-aqueous absorption liquid to be in liquid-liquid contact with an aqueous liquid whereby at least part of the sulphur oxide-hydrophobic amine-complex is hydrolyzed to release the hydrophobic amine and sulphurous hydrolysis products, and at least part of the sulphurous hydrolysis products is transferred into the aqueous liquid; separating the aqueous liquid from the non-aqueous absorption liquid. The process mitigates absorbent degradation problems caused by sulphur dioxide and oxygen in flue gas.

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RTI INTERNATIONAL3040 CORNWALLIS RD RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK NC 27709

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Bartling, Karsten Neustadt, DE 3 20
Coleman, Luke James Ivor Durham, US 3 7
Katz, Torsten Neustadt, DE 25 155
Lail, Marty Alan Raleigh, US 5 8
Riemann, Christian Altrip, DE 11 52
Rigby, Sean Taylor Houston, US 1 5

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