Abstract: Provided is a method and plant for reducing SO2 emissions in which a catalyst for catalyzing the formation of cement clinker is extracted from kiln exhaust gas and recycled.
Abstract: Oxygen or oxygen-enriched air is employed to support combustion in furnace (16) of part of the hydrogen sulphide content of a first feed gas stream. Sulphur is extracted from the resulting gas stream in a sulphur condenser (26). Catalyst Claus reaction between hydrogen sulphide and sulphur dioxide in the resulting sulphur vapour depleted gas stream takes place in a catalytic reactor (32). Sulphur is extracted in a further sulphur condenser (34). The resulting sulphur vapour depleted gas stream is passed into a catalytic reduction reactor (40) in which all the residual sulphur dioxide and any sulphur vapour are reduced to hydrogen sulphide. The resulting reduced gas mixture has water vapour extracted there from in a quench tower (52). The resulting water vapour depleted gas stream flows to a Claus plant for further treatment typically together with a second feed gas stream.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 4, 2001
Date of Patent:
May 17, 2005
Assignee:
The BOC Group plc
Inventors:
Richard William Watson, Stephen Rhys Graville
Abstract: A method of decreasing nitrate nitrogen and volatile organic compounds in soil and groundwater by burying a fatty acid having 10 or more carbon atoms, an alcohol having 12 or more carbon atoms, an ester of a linear saturated fatty acid having 14 or more carbon atoms and a monohydric alcohol, an ester of a linear saturated fatty acid having 14 or more carbon atoms and a polyhydric alcohol, an ester of a fatty acid having 16 or more carbon atoms and glycerine, and the like in soil containing nitrate nitrogen and volatile organic compounds. This method allows for on site treatment, high biological denitrification and a decrease in volatile organic compounds secondary pollution by the release of organic matter and nitrogen into the environment is extremely small.
Abstract: A gas burner for use with a Claus furnace made up of at least five concentric tubes and the spaces formed between them. The diameters of the tubes increase radially outward so that the first tube has a smaller diameter than the fifth tube. At the end of the burner closest to the furnace, the tube ends of the third, fourth, and fifth tubes lie in the same plane. The first and the second tubes are fastened together and capable of movement along the central longitudinal axis of the burner, but their ends closest the furnace are not capable of moving past the plane formed by the third, fourth, and fifth tubes. An injector is located between the first and second tubes at the end closest the furnace. The injector is oriented towards the periphery of the burner.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 29, 2001
Date of Patent:
May 10, 2005
Assignee:
L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme á Directorie et Conseil de Surveillance pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude
Inventors:
Rémi Pierre Tsiava, Manuel Binoist, Benoit Grand, Richard Soula, Denis Cieutat
Abstract: The present invention provides a method for inhibiting the evolution of H2S from sulfhydryl compounds in molten sulfur by using scavenging agents such as anhydrides and polymers thereof, conjugated ketones, carbonates, epoxides, monoesters and diesters of unsaturated dicarboxylic acids and polymers of these esters, and the like and mixtures thereof. In one embodiment, it is preferred that the scavenging agent is in liquid form at contact temperature with the molten sulfur. In another embodiment, the scavenging agent may be atomized into the vapor space over the molten sulfur to contact the sulfur with the agent.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 17, 2003
Date of Patent:
May 3, 2005
Assignee:
Baker Hughes Incorporated
Inventors:
John A. Schield, Weldon J. Cappel, Jerry J. Weers, Glenn L. Roof
Abstract: A rhenium (IV) sulphide (ReS2) nanotube material and a method of preparation of the rhenium (IV) sulphide (ReS2) nanotube material. The rhenium (IV) sulphide (ReS2) nanotube material comprises hollow cylinders of concentric rhenium (IV) sulphide layers, the ReS2 interlayer distance being between 0.5 to 0.7 nm. Each ReS2 layer consists of a layer of rhenium atoms sandwiched between two layers of sulfur atoms.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 13, 2003
Date of Patent:
May 3, 2005
Assignee:
Haldor Topsoe A/S
Inventors:
Michael Brorson, Claus J. H. Jacobsen, Thomas Willum Hansen
Abstract: A bioremediation system converts a waste stream, at least part of which is a fluid containing energetics, to carbon dioxide (CO2), water, and environmentally benign end products. It uses gas-enhanced sequencing-batch-reactors (SBRs), treating the waste stream in three SBRs seriatim. The first SBR uses a nitrogen purge, the second a hydrogen gas supplement, and the third an oxygen gas or forced air supplement. Each reactor may be supplemented with additives to optimize conditions such as pH, dissolved oxygen, and nutrient level. The system may be implemented under manual control, semi-automated, or fully automated, as needed. A waste stream of consideration is the pink water resultant from munitions fabrication and handling.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 14, 2002
Date of Patent:
April 12, 2005
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
Inventors:
Byung J. Kim, Neal R. Adrian, Clint M. Arnett
Abstract: An adsorbent for removing sulfur compounds from sulfur compounds-containing fuel gas contains a zeolite ion-exchanged with Ag and has an excellent performance when used to remove sulfur compounds from the fuel gas, irrespective of the moisture concentration in the fuel gas, and a method for removing sulfur compounds from sulfur compounds-containing fuel gas by use of an adsorbent of the above-mentioned type. The zeolite is a Na—+Y type zeolite.
Abstract: A flue gas processing apparatus for removing sulfur oxide contained in a gas, including a desulfurization tower through which the gas flows, the desulfurization tower including a catalyst unit having at least one activated carbon fiber board which adsorbs the sulfur oxide and a water-supply device configured to supply water to the catalyst unit so as to form sulfuric acid from the sulfur oxide adsorbed to the at least one activated carbon fiber board, the water-supply device being positioned above the catalyst unit in the desulfurization tower, and a pressurizing device configured to apply pressure to the gas supplied to the desulfurization tower so as to flow the gas through the catalyst unit by the pressure.
Abstract: A modified vanadium compound characterized in that vanadium sulfate (III), or a mixed vanadium compound of vanadium sulfate (III) and vanadyl sulfate (IV) contains excessive sulfuric acid other than sulfate group composing the vanadium sulfate (III) or the vanadyl sulfate (IV), and when the modified vanadium compound is used, a redox flow battery electrolyte can be prepared easily.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 4, 2001
Date of Patent:
March 29, 2005
Assignees:
Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd., Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd
Abstract: A method for treating and upgrading effluents containing at least a metallic sulphate comprising adding at least a base to the effluent to precipitate the metallic ions in the form of iron oxy-hydroxides Fe(OHx) wherein x=2 and/or 3; separating the precipitated hydroxide calcium sulphate CaSO4; and separating the calcium sulphate CaSO4 precipitated during the preceding step. Said method enables obtainment of calcium sulphate (white gypsum) substantially free of metals and therefore capable of being upgraded and iron oxy-hydroxides likewise capable of being upgraded.
Abstract: A process is provided for the production of hydrogen sulphide from the bacterial reduction of a mixture of a liquid and elemental sulfur with an electron donor, such as hydrogen gas, carbon monoxide or organic compounds. The bacteria may be Desulforomonas sp. (mesophilic), Desulfotomaculum KT7 (thermophilic), etc. The liquid/sulfur mixture is at a pH ranging from 5 to 9, and the liquid/sulfur mixture contacts the bacteria at a hydraulic retention time of at least 1 day. The hydrogen sulphide is stripped from the liquid medium to produce a gas containing at least 1 volume percent hydrogen sulphide.
Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous based, solvent free degreaser composition, comprising a blend of two nonionic surfactants selected from, alcohol alkoxylate with a fatty alcohol moiety, alkoxylated fatty alcohol, fatty alcohol having oxyethylate moieties, polyoxyalkylene block copolymers, and alkyl phenol alkoxylate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 29, 1997
Date of Patent:
October 17, 2000
Assignee:
BASF Corporation
Inventors:
Charles O. Kerobo, Michael C. Welch, Suzanne M. Gessner, Sonia J. Patterson
Abstract: Detergent composition are disclosed which are formulated for use in wash water over a wide range of pH in the washing bath. The compositions contain an anionic surfactant, optionally in combination with a nonionic surfactant with optimal builders and enzymes, and also contain at least one water soluble organic polymer, such as polyethylene glycol, which is miscible with or soluble in the surfactant. The presence of the water soluble polymer leads to enhanced fabric cleaning performance.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 29, 1997
Date of Patent:
February 15, 2000
Assignee:
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
Inventors:
Hoai-Chau Cao, Marie-Christine Houben, Patricia Pagnoul, Patrick Durbut, Guy Broze, Anne-Marie Misselyn
Abstract: Disclosed is a system of natural colors consisting of thousands of colored powders of mineral origin and of materials in or on which pigments have been applied and, afterwards, submitted to at least one thermal treatment and/or irradiation. These natural colors cover the totality of the visible spectrum and offer a great variety of tones, tints and reflections from white to black, including all the rainbow colors. The powders of this system are obtained by mechanical, chemical, thermal and/or physical processes and are used alone or in combination. They are particularly useful to color materials and, more especially those used in the construction and architectural fields.
Abstract: This invention relates to a black-pigmented high molecular weight organic material which is structured from a radiation-sensitive precursor by irradiation, the pigmentation of which material consists of coloured organic pigments, at least one of which is in latent form before irradiation. This material is preferably used as a thin layer which is built up in the form of patterns on a transparent substrate and which can be used, for example, as black matrix for optical colour filters. This invention also relates to a process for the preparation of this material as well as to novel soluble derivatives of yellow disazo condensation pigments which can be used in this process.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 8, 1998
Date of Patent:
January 4, 2000
Assignee:
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
Inventors:
Ulrich Schadeli, Eric Tinguely, Veronique Hall-Goulle, Gerardus de Keyzer
Abstract: Disclosed is a system of natural colors consisting of thousands of colored powders of mineral origin and of materials in or on which pigments have been applied and, afterwards, submitted to at least one thermal treatment and/or irradiation. These natural colors cover the totality of the visible spectrum and offer a great variety of tones, tints and reflections from white to black, including all the rainbow colors. The powders of this system are obtained by a combination of three mechanical, chemical, thermal and/or irradiation processes. They are particularly useful to color materials and, more especially those used in the construction and architectural fields.
Abstract: Disclosed is a system of natural colours consisting of thousands of coloured powders of mineral origin and of materials in or on which pigments have been applied and, afterwards, submitted to at least one thermal treatment and/or irradiation. These natural colours cover the totality of the visible spectrum and offer a great variety of tones, tints and reflections from white to black, including all the rainbow colours. The powders of this system are obtained by mechanical, chemical, thermal and/or physical processes and are used alone or in combination. They are particularly useful to colour materials and, more especially those used in the construction and architectural fields.
Abstract: Disclosed are compositions comprising one or more compounds characterized by the formula: ##STR1## wherein each R is independently a hydrocarbyl, hydroxy, hydrocarbyloxy, carboxylic acid, carboxylic acid ester, carboxylic acid amide, sulfonic acid, sulfonic acid amide, imidazolone or nitro group; n is 0, 1 or 2; and M is at least one divalent metal. A process for preparing azo pigment compositions is also disclosed. Paint, ink and plastic compositions containing the foregoing pigments compositions are disclosed.
Abstract: An aqueous liquid composition containing dihydrogen phosphate salt, surfactant(s), and a dual coordinate bonding agent for iron cleans soiled metal surfaces without damaging any plastic parts that come into contact with the composition, supporting the growth of bacteria that cause unpleasant odors, or obscuring the transparency of any transparent window that it contacts. The composition is particularly useful for cleaning unpainted aluminum sided rail transport cars that have polycarbonate housings insulating electrical contact points that provide motive electric power to the cars; many conventional aqueous alkaline and acid cleaners promote stress cracking of polycarbonate plastics.