Process for preparation of hydrobromic acid
AssigneeAgrocel Industries Limited
InventorsDipesh Kantisen Shroff, Bhupendra Kalyanbhai Sachani, Dhaval Rajnikant Dave
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Abstract
A process has been disclosed for preparation of hydrobromic acid from bromine, sulfur dioxide and water, which involves in situ generation of bromine from bittern for the production of hydrobromic acid and separation thereof from co-products, viz., sulfuric and hydrochloric acids. The invented process obviates the need for double distillation or precipitation step for removal of sulfate impurities. The concentration of the product obtained by the disclosed process is about 48% and it contains <15 ppm sulfate and chloride impurities.
Claims8
A continuous process for manufacturing hydrobromic acid by separating hydrobromic acid from sulfuric acid and subsequently concentrating the hydrobromic acid, comprising:
- (i) filling a flash tank and a first re-boiler with a mixture of hydrobromic acid and sulfuric acid from a feed tank;
- (ii) heating the mixture of hydrobromic acid and sulfuric acid to 95-100° C. under reduced pressure by heating the first re-boiler so as to cause thermo-siphoning of said mixture from the first re-boiler to the flash tank;
- (iii) continuously adding the mixture of the hydrobromic acid and sulfuric acid from the feed tank to the flash tank, maintaining the temperature at 95-100° C.;
- (iv) condensing an azeotropic mixture of hydrobromic acid and water formed during step (iii) in a first heat exchanger and feeding it back to a hollow column which is fitted above the flash tank;
- (v) allowing hydrobromic acid from the azeotropic mixture of hydrobromic acid and water to drop into a reflux divider, which is fitted in the hollow column in step (iv);
- (vi) allowing hydrobromic acid to flow through a connecting pipe from the reflux divider to a second re-boiler, said second re-boiler maintained at 65-70° C.;
- (vii) allowing hydrobromic acid to flow from the bottom of the second re-boiler to a first storage tank via a second heat exchanger;
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- (viii) collecting sulfuric acid from the bottom of the flash tank into a second storage tank via a third heat exchanger by opening a valve when specific gravity of sulfuric acid is at least 1.45.
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