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Advanced Sulfur Control Concepts -
Final Report - January 2003

Research Triangle Institute

Table of Contents

Section 1 (1.53mb)

 ABSTRACT

ii
  LIST OF FIGURES vi
LIST OF TABLES ix
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS xi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ES-1

Section 2 (632kb)

1

 INTRODUCTION 1
   

1.1

 Background 1

1.2

 Objective 2

1.3

 Project Tasks and Chronology 2

2

 ADVANCED HOT GASSES PROCESS (AHGP) 3
 

2.1

 Introduction 3

2.2

 Process Description 3

2.3

 Development of AHGP 4

Section 3 (5mb)

3

 SINGLE-STEP SULFUR RECOVERY PROCESS (SSRP) 6
   

3.1

 Introduction 6

3.2

 Process Description 6

3.3

 SSRP Development 8
 

3.3.1

 Catalyst screening: SSRP in a fixed-bed micro-reactor 9

3.3.2

 Concept evaluation: SSRP in a micro-bubble reactor 22

3.3.3

 Process evaluation: SSRP in a bench-scale continuous stirred tank reactor 25

Section 4 (1.88mb)

4

 ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF SSRP 46
   

4.1

 Introduction 46

4.2

 Selection of IGCC Base Case 46

4.3

 Base Case 1: Texaco-IGCC-Amine 48

4.4

 Texaco-IGCC-SSRP System 50

4.5

 Comparison of Base Case 1 with SSRP 52

4.6

 Cost Calculation Details 55

4.7

 Calculation of the Cost of Electricity (COE) 58

4.8

 COE Sensitivity Analysis 60

4.9

 Summary 61

Section 5 (2.48mb)

5

 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 63
 

6

 REFERENCES 66

APPENDIX A

 Advanced Sulfur Control Concepts: Proceedings of the Advanced Coal-Fired Power Systems '95 Review Meeting A-1

APPENDIX B

 Advanced Sulfur Control Processing: Proceedings of the Advanced Coal-Fired Power Systems '96 Review Meeting B-1

Section 6 (3.28mb)

 APPENDIX C Hot Gas Desulfurization with Sulfur Recovery: Proceedings of the Advanced Coal-Based Power and Environmental Systems '97 Conference C-1
  APPENDIX D Advanced Hot Gas Desulfurization Process with Sulfur Recovery: Proceedings of the International Symposium on "Gas Cleaning at High Temperatures", University of Karlsruhe, 1999 D-1

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Section 10 (1.8mb)
Section 11 (1.58mb)
 Section 12 (384kb)

 APPENDIX E Engineering Evaluation of Hot Gas Desulfurization with Sulfur Recovery, Topical Report, May 1998 E-1

Section 13 (2.45mb)

 APPENDIX F Advances in Hot Gas Desulfurization with Elemental Sulfur Recovery: Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Sept. 1998 F-1
  APPENDIX G Candidate Process and Materials for the Direct Oxidation of H2S in Coal Gas: A Literature Review G-1

Section 14 (1.85mb)

 APPENDIX H Single-step Sulfur Recovery Process (SSRP): Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Sept. 2002 H-1
  APPENDIX I SSRP Micro-Reactor Processed Data I-1
APPENDIX J SSRP Micro-Bubbler Processed Data J-1

Section 15 (1.18mb)

 APPENDIX K SSRP CSTR Processed Data K-1