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Investigating three different models for simulation of the thermal stage of an industrial split-flow SRU based on equilibrium-kinetic approach with heat loss

Chemical Product and Process Modeling, ISSN: 1934-2659, Vol: 14, Issue: 1
2019
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Modified Claus process is the most important process that recovers elemental sulfur from H S. The thermal stage of sulfur recovery unit (SRU), including the reaction furnace (RF) and waste heat boiler (WHB), plays a critically important role in sulfur recovery percentage of the unit. In this article, three methods including kinetic (PFR model), equilibrium and equilibrium-kinetic models have been investigated in order to predict the reaction furnace effluent conditions. The comparison of results with industrial data shows that kinetic model (for whole the thermal stage) is the most accurate model for simulation of the thermal stage of the industrial split-flow SRU. Mean absolute percentage error for the considered kinetic model is 4.59%. For the first time, the consequences of considering heat loss from the reaction furnace on calculated molar flows are studied. The results show that considering heat loss only affects better prediction of some effluent molar flow rates such as CO and SO , and its effect is not significant on the results. Eventually the effects of feed preheating on some important parameters like sulfur conversion efficiency, H S to SO molar ratio and important effluent molar flows are investigated. The results indicate that feed preheating will reduce the sulfur conversion efficiency. It is also noticeable that by reducing the feed temperature to 490K, H S/SO molar ratio reaches to its optimum value of 2.

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