ODSO acid medium, ODSO acid mixture medium, and uses thereof
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsOmer Refa Koseoglu, Robert P. Hodgkins
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Abstract
An acid medium is provided comprising one or more water-soluble oxidized disulfide oil ODSO compounds. The use of such an acid medium is disclosed as a replacement for conventional acids. Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an ODSO acid or ODSO acid mixture medium comprising, consisting of or consisting essentially of one or more polar water-soluble ODSO compounds, including polar water-soluble ODSO compounds present in an effluent refinery hydrocarbon stream recovered following catalytic oxidation of mercaptans present in a petroleum feedstream.
Claims19
An acid medium having a pH of less than about 7 comprising:
- one or more acidic water-soluble oxidized disulfide oil (ODSO) compounds having a pH of less than about 7;
- and one or more additional acidic components selected from the group consisting of hydrochloric acid, hydrobromic acid, hydrofluoric acid, phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid and aqua regia,
- wherein the ODSO comprises 25-99.9 percent by mass of the acid medium.
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