Sulphur
The magazine for the sulphur and sulphuric acid industries

Latest issue:
March/April 2019

• The Gulf's growing sulphur surplus
  The Arabian Gulf continues to be the fastest growing area for new sulphur supply. While large sour gas projects, some of them delayed from earlier years, continue to be the major source of new sulphur, large new refining projects in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will also contribute to the growing surplus.

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• Sulphur as a fertilizer
  The importance of sulphur in plant nutrition is becoming increasingly recognised. While many traditional sulphate-based fertilizers are still the major source of plant nutrient sulphur, a wide variety of new sulphur enhanced fertilizers are now available to help correct growing sulphur soil deficiencies.

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• Sulphur dust suppression in extremely cold temperatures
  Dr Jeff Cooke, Director of Technology, and Tibor Horvath, Laboratory Manager for the IPAC Chemicals Division of DuBois Chemicals Canada discuss the use of dust suppressant chemicals on formed sulphur in freezing conditions when traditional water-based sprays are unusable.

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• Sulphuric acid from non-condensable gases
  New wet gas sulphuric acid technology to produce sulphuric acid from the incineration of pulp mill non-condensable gases has been operating continuously since 2017, reducing sulphurous emissions at the Äänekoski pulp mill in Finland. The internally produced sulphuric acid can replace purchased acid at several locations within the mill. Naveen Chenna of Valmet Technologies Inc. describes the new process and its advantages.

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• TGTU re-start-up at Mellitah Complex
  The Claus tail gas treatment unit (TGTU) at the Mellitah Oil & Gas BV complex was successfully re-commissioned in January, 2018. Ciro Di Carlo of Siirtec Nigi describes the sequence of operation successfully carried out under Siirtec Nigi guidance to bring the TGT unit on stream, on a continuous and stable basis, under uncommon circumstances.

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• Sulphur plant upgrade for lean acid gas processing
  WorleyParsons and Linde have carried out a prefeasibility study to determine the best option to improve operations of a Saudi Aramco sulphur plant processing a lean acid gas feed containing H2S and BTX contaminants. High level oxygen enrichment combined with acid gas enrichment unit (AGE) was found to be the most economic option. I. Alami and C. Chukwunyere of Saudi Aramco, Dr M. Guzmann of Linde Gas and S. Pollitt of WorleyParsons discuss the findings.

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• Integrated AGE and hydrocarbon removal in sour gas processing
  A new sour gas treating scheme comprising H2S removal, separation of impurities such as hydrocarbons, BTEX and mercaptans, and an integrated acid gas enrichment system has been developed for sour gas field developments, refineries, associated gas, shale gas, syngas from power plants, natural gas processing applications, and early production facilities. M. Rameshni and S. Santo of Rameshni & Associates Technology & Engineering (RATE) describe this innovative scheme named Enrich-MAX.

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