Process for separating an acid from a gaseous mixture
AssigneeImperial Chemical Industries PLC
InventorMervyn Edward Dennant Turner
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Abstract
A process for separating acid gases from gaseous mixtures by absorption in alkaline solutions such as potassium carbonate solution wherin corrosion caused by the absorbing solution is reduced by inclusion therein of an aromatic compound. The aromatic compound has at least one nitro group and at least one hydroxyl group substituted in the same benzene nucleus. The invention is particularly applicable when the absorbent is a potassium carbonate solution activated by arsenic ions.
Claims8
In a process for separating carbon dioxide from a gaseous mixture by absorbing it in an aqueous alkaline absorbing solution of a salt of ammonium or of an alkali metal and regenerating the said solution, the improvement which comprises inhibiting the corrosion of mild steel or stainless steel surface in contact with the said solution by having present therein an amount between 0.02% and 1.0% by weight of an aromatic compound having at least one nitro group and at least one hydroxyl group substituted in the same benzene nucleus or a compound formed from the said aromatic compound in the solution and an amount sufficient to activate absorption of an activator selected from the group consisting of arsenite ions, arsenate ions, monoethanolamine, diethanolamine, ethylamino ethanol, glycine, N-ethyl-.beta.-alanine and N-ethyl glycine.
In a process for separating carbon dioxide from a gaseous mixture by absorbing carbon dioxide in an aqueous alkaline absorbing solution of a salt of ammonium or of an alkali metal and regenerating the said solution, the improvement which comprises inhibiting the corrosion of mild steel or stainless steel surface in contact with the said solution by having present therein an amount between 0.02% and 1.0% by weight of an aromatic compound having at least one nitro group and at least one hydroxyl group substituted in the same benzene nucleus or a compound formed from the said aromatic compound in the solution and an amount sufficient to activate absorption of an arsenic compound.
In a process for separating carbon dioxide from a gaseous mixture by absorbing it in an aqueous alkaline absorbing solution of a salt of ammonium or of an alkali metal and regenerating the said solution, the improvement which comprises inhibiting the corrosion of mild steel or stainless steel surface in contact with the said solution by having present therein an amount between 0.02% and 1.0% by weight of an aromatic compound having at least one nitro group and at least one hydroxyl group substituted in the same benzene nucleus or a compound formed from the said aromatic compound in the solution and an amount from 0.1% to 1% by weight of arsenic ion for inhibition of general corrosion.
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