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US 12,134,073 B1Granted
Solid/liquid desulfurization catalyst for hydrocarbon purification
AssigneeKing Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
InventorsSagheer A. Onaizi, Reyad Shawabkeh, Zuhair Omar Malaibari, Nabeel Salim Abu-Ghander
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Abstract
A two or particularly three-phase process, and corresponding apparatus, desulfurizes sour hydrocarbon gas, e.g., natural gas, generally better than known, using a fixed-bed, two-phase processes in terms of the amount of H2S scavenged and the breakthrough time of H2S. The three-phase process is effective in scavenging H2S at ambient temperature and pressure, using a copper salt catalyst impregnated on alumina or other generally inert support, which is regenerable.
Claims7
A heterogeneous desulfurization catalyst, comprising:
- a solid catalyst in the form of particles of agglomerated masses of irregular shape comprising:
- a support comprising Al2O3 in an amount of at least 95 wt. %, based upon total support weight, the support being inert to desulfurization at ambient conditions;
- copper (II) ions upon and impregnated within the support in an amount of at least 95 wt. %, based upon total catalytically active metals in the catalyst at the ambient conditions, and
- a liquid comprising at least 75 wt. % H2O, based upon total solvent weight,
- wherein the heterogenous desulfurization catalyst is in the form of an aqueous suspension having a solid-liquid ratio, measured as solid catalyst mass per mass of liquid in a range of from 0.01 to 1.5.
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