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Designing Wet Scrubbers for SO 2 Absorption into Fairly Concentrated Sulfuric Acid Solutions Containing Hydrogen Peroxide
Author(s) -
Thomas D.,
Colle S.,
Vanderschuren J.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.200390074
Subject(s) - data scrubbing , scrubber , hydrogen peroxide , sulfuric acid , chemistry , mass transfer , absorption (acoustics) , mass transfer coefficient , contactor , inorganic chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , chromatography , materials science , organic chemistry , thermodynamics , waste management , power (physics) , physics , engineering , composite material
Absorption of SO 2 , diluted with nitrogen up to concentrations of 500 Pa, was performed at 20 °C and 1 atm, with water and sulfuric acid solutions containing hydrogen peroxide in two different contactors: a packed column and a cable scrubber. The absorption rate was determined for various SO 2 partial pressures, as well as different concentrations of sulfuric acid (up to 40 wt %) and of hydrogen peroxide in the scrubbing liquid. It was found that the SO 2 absorption rate increases with the hydrogen peroxide concentration, and decreases as the acidity of the scrubbing liquid increases. Taking into account hydrodynamic and mass transfer characteristics of the packing for both scrubbers, a practical enhancement factor depending on the liquid phase H 2 SO 4 and H 2 O 2 contents, was deduced from semi‐continuous tests. As a good concordance was observed between results determined for both contactors, a single correlation is proposed, allowing the computation of this kinetic factor for quite simple simulation or design of SO 2 scrubbers, provided the gas and liquid phase mass transfer coefficients k G a and k L a are known.