Flue gas-treating method and apparatus for treating acidic tail gas by using ammonia process

• US 9,370,745 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2015
• Issued: 06/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jiangnan Environmental Protection Group Inc.
• Original Assignee: Jiangsu New Century Jiangnan Environmental Protection Company Limited
• Inventors: Xu, Changxiang, Fu, Guoguang, Xu, Yanzhong, Luo, Jing
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmer, Anthony J
• Application Number:
  US14/829,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20150352486A1
• Time in Patent Office: 307 Days
• Field of Search: 423/243.06, 423/242
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2251/11 Air
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2251/2062 Ammonia
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2252/102 Ammonia
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2252/103 Water
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2257/302 Sulfur oxides
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2257/406 Ammonia
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2258/0283 Flue gases
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/502 characterised by a specific solution or suspension
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/504 characterised by a specific device
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/78 with gas-liquid contact

Abstract

A flue gas-treating method for treating acid tail gas by using an ammonia process, comprising the following steps of: 1) controlling the concentration of sulfur dioxide in an acid tail gas entering an absorber to be ≦30,000 mg/Nm³; 2) spraying and cooling with a process water or/and an ammonium sulfate solution in the inlet duct of the absorber or inside the absorber; 3) providing an oxidation section in the absorber, wherein the oxidation section is provided with oxidation distributors for oxidizing the desulfurization absorption solution; 4) providing an absorption section in the absorber wherein the absorption section achieves desulfurization spray absorption by using absorption solution distributors via an absorption solution containing ammonia; the absorption solution containing ammonia is supplied by an ammonia storage tank; 5) providing a water washing layer above the absorption section in the absorber, wherein the water washing layer washes the absorption solution in the tail gas to reduce the slip of the absorption solution; 6) providing a demister above the water washing layer inside the absorber to control the concentration of mist droplets contained in the cleaned tail gas. In the coal chemical industry, the integration of the Claus sulfur recovery process and the ammonia desulfurization technology can reduce the investment of the post-treatment and simplify the operation process, and provide intensive advantages to the environmental control of plants.

Claims

1. A flue gas-treating method for treating acid tail gas by an ammonia absorption process, the process comprising:

1) flowing raw tail gas into an inlet duct of an absorber, and adding air into the raw tail gas via an air blower, which is connected to the inlet duct, to make the concentration of sulfur dioxide in said raw tail gas reach a concentration of <

30,000 mg/Nm³, before the tail gas flows into the absorber;

2) cooling and washing the tail gas by spraying the tail gas in a cooling washing spray layer with water and/or ammonium sulfate solution produced in an oxidation section, wherein said cooling washing spray layer is in the inlet duct of the absorber or inside the absorber, and wherein the concentration of the ammonium sulfate solution increases when spraying the tail gas with ammonium sulfate solution;

3) desulfurizing the tail gas in an absorption section of the absorber by spraying the tail gas via absorption solution distributors with absorption solution containing ammonia supplied by an ammonia storage tank, wherein the desulfurizing step generates desulfurization absorption solution containing ammonium sulfite;

4) removing absorption solution droplets from the desulfurized tail gas by washing the desulfurized tail gas with water in a water washing layer above the absorption section in the absorber;

5) removing droplets from the desulfurized and washed tail gas by treating the desulfurized and washed tail gas with a demister above the water washing layer inside the absorber; and

6) oxidizing the desulfurization absorption solution produced in step

     3) by treating the desulfurization absorption solution in an oxidation section in the absorber set under the absorption section of the absorber, wherein said oxidation section contains oxidation distributors to oxidize ammonium sulfite in the desulfurization absorption solution to ammonium sulfate.

2. The flue gas-treating method of claim 1, further comprising pumping the oxidized desulfurization absorption solution produced in step 6) into the cooling washing spray layer in step 2) inside the absorber and/or in the inlet duct of the absorber to result in concentration of the oxidized desulfurization absorption solution.

3. The flue gas-treating method of claim 1, wherein the temperature of the acid tail gas flowing into the absorption section in the absorber is <

80°

C., the operating temperature of the absorption section in the absorber is <

65°

C., and the temperature of absorption solution is <

65°

C.

4. The flue gas-treating method of claim 3, wherein the superficial gas velocity is 1.5 m/s to 4 m/s, the liquid gas ratio of the cooling absorption solution is <

6 L/m³, the liquid gas ratio of absorption section is 1 L/m³ to 15 L/m³, and the concentration of the ammonium sulfate solution is >

15%.

5. The flue gas-treating method of claim 1, wherein the acid tail gas flowing into the inlet duct of the absorber in step 1) is from a Claus sulfur recovery process, and the cooling process is achieved by air supplement, water cooling and/or ammonium sulfate solution cooling.

6. A flue gas-treating apparatus for treating acid tail gas by an ammonia absorption process, the apparatus comprising an absorber (16), an air blower (2), an ammonia solution tank (3), an absorber oxidation section (4), an absorption circulation pump (5), an ammonium sulfate storage tank (6), an ammonium sulfate discharge pump (7), an inlet duct (8) of the absorber, a cleaned gas duct (9), a stack (10), a demister (11), a water washing layer (12), an absorber absorption spray layer (13), a cooling washing pump (14), an inlet cooling washing spray layer (15), and a spraying pump (17), wherein the inlet duct (8) is connected to the air blower (2);

a process water or/and ammonium sulfate solution cooling and spraying device is set in the inlet duct of the absorber or inside the absorber;

an oxidation section (4) is provided in the absorber (16), wherein the oxidation section (4) is provided with oxidation distributors for oxidizing the desulfurization absorption solution;

an absorption section is provided in the absorber (16) wherein the absorption section (13) achieves desulfurization spray absorption by using absorption solution distributors via an absorption solution containing ammonia;

an oxidation blower (1) is provided in the oxidation section (4);

a solution generated by the oxidation section (4) is transported into the ammonium sulfate storage tank (6) and transported out of the apparatus by an ammonium sulfate discharge pump (7); and

the absorption spray layer (13) consists of two to four spray tower layers or packed tower layers.

7. The flue gas-treating apparatus of claim 6, wherein the water washing layer of a packed tower is provided above the absorption spray layer, the demister is set at the top of the absorber, and the cleaned gas duct and stack are provided above the absorber.

8. The flue gas-treating apparatus of claim 6, wherein said blower is a centrifugal air blower that adjusts the concentration of acid tail gas by supplying air, and the pressure and flow amount thereof are set according to the parameters of the acid tail gas to ensure the concentration of sulfur dioxide in the tail gas before the tail gas flows into the absorber to be no more than 30,000 mg/Nm³.

9. The flue gas-treating apparatus of claim 6, wherein said air blower supplies air to oxidize ammonium sulfite to ammonium sulfate, wherein the pressure of the air blower is set according to the liquid level of the oxidation section and is no less than 0.05 MPa, and the flow rate of the oxidation air is more than 150% of a theoretical value.

10. The flue gas-treating apparatus for treating acid tail gas by using an ammonia process according to claim 6, wherein the height of the absorber is 20 m to 40 m;

the oxidation residence time in the oxidation section is over 30 minutes;

the superficial gas velocity at the absorption spray layer, the water washing layer, and the demister is 1 m/s to 5 m/s; and

the demister has 2 to 3 baffle plates.

11. The flue gas-treating apparatus of claim 9, wherein a centrifugal air blower is used to adjust the concentration of acid tail gas by supplying air, and the pressure and flow amount thereof are set according to the parameters of the acid tail gas to ensure the concentration of sulfur dioxide in the tail gas to be no more than 30,000 mg/Nm³.

12. The flue gas-treating apparatus of claim 9, wherein the height of the absorber is 20 m to 40 m;

the oxidation residence time in the oxidation section is over 30 minutes;

the superficial gas velocity at the absorption spray layer, the water washing layer, and the demister is 1 m/s to 5 m/s; and

the demister has 2 to 3 baffle plates.