Acid gas treating, also known as gas sweetening and sour gas treating, refers to a group of processes that use various aqueous solvents such as Amines, Hot Potassium Carbonate, Sodium Hydroxide etc, to remove hydrogen sulfide (high toxicity) and carbon dioxide (lack of heating value) from gases. It is a very common unit process used in Gas Processing plant, Refineries, petrochemical plants, Coal Fired Power Plant and other industries. Principle Separation Technologies are listed below: Solvent Separation Adsorption Membrane Separation Cryogenic Distillation Solvent Separation: Figure below shows a general schematic of the CO2 removal using a sorbent. Acid Gas Removal using amine treating Solvent separation process uses liquid absorbent or solid sorbent. It consists two steps - the absorption step and the regeneration step. In the contactor vessel, the CO2 - containing gas is brought into contact with regenerated solvent which captures the CO2. The rich solvent, loaded with C...
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