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" A kinetic simulation on BTEX destruction in Claus furnace by oxidizing agents "
Ramees Khaleel Rahman
Gupta, Abhijeet Raj
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804299
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TL49125
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1855425986; 10243787
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Rac, Katalin Franciska
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A kinetic simulation on BTEX destruction in Claus furnace by oxidizing agents\ Ramees Khaleel RahmanGupta, Abhijeet Raj
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The Petroleum Institute (United Arab Emirates)
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2016
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M.S.
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Chemical Engineering
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2016
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107
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Committee members: Berrouk, Abdallah; Wang, Kean
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-37457-5
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The demand for low sulfur content in hydrocarbon fuels and the stringent environmental regulations has led to an increased production of acid gas (H<sub>2</sub>S and CO<sub>2</sub>) as byproducts in oil and gas industry. Consequently, the need for efficient treatment of acid gas has surfaced. Sulfur recovery units (SRU), consisting mainly of a furnace and catalytic reactors, are widely used to recover sulfur and thermal energy from acid gas. The contaminants in acid gas such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) and frequent variation in its composition causes flame instability and the production of unwanted byproducts such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), CO, COS and CS<sub>2</sub>, which reduce process efficiency and increase operational cost through frequent catalyst deactivation. In this work, a detailed reaction mechanism is presented for SRU that includes reactions for the combustion of acid gas and its contaminants, and the formation and oxidation of large PAHs by several oxidants (O, O<sub>2</sub> and OH). In order to improve xylene profile, reactions were added for xylene from the literature. Oxidation reactions for BTX by SO<sub>2</sub> were also added into the base mechanism. In addition, rate constants for oxidation reactions for PAHs by SO<sub>2</sub> were estimated from the reactions for smaller aromatics and these were also added. The resulting mechanism is validated with different sets of experimental data, and is used to investigate the process conditions that triggers the oxidation of aromatics (BTX and PAHs) in the furnace. The roles of feed flow rate, oxygen concentration, feed preheating and fuel gas flow rate in aromatics destruction are examined. A decrease in aromatics is observed with low acid gas flow rate due to enhanced residence time in the furnace. The increase in acid gas preheating temperatures, oxygen concentration in air and fuel gas flow rate resulted in reduced aromatics production due to their oxidation by SO<sub>2</sub> and O<sub>2</sub>. The reaction mechanism alongside simulation results, presented herein, provide viable means of optimizing SRU to achieve efficient aromatics destruction.
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Chemical engineering
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Applied sciences;BTEX;Claus;PAH;Simulation
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Gupta, Abhijeet Raj
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Chemical EngineeringThe Petroleum Institute (United Arab Emirates)
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