Abstract

The catalytic destruction of NH 3 and SO 2 has been examined over a series of alumina supported transition metal oxide catalysts in the laboratory. It was found that alumina supported vanadium oxide is the best candidate for this reaction. These studies show that employing a feed containing 4% NH 3 + 3% SO 2 and a residence time of 0.75 s at 700 °C, conversions of 100 and 87.7% for NH 3 and SO 2, respectively, can be achieved over fresh alumina supported vanadium oxide with the main products being only N 2, water and sulfur. The effect of pretreatment of the catalyst by sulfidation was also examined in this study. Based on these results it was shown that feeding a simulated industrial sour water stripper gas (SWSG) plus oxygen over alumina supported vanadium oxide at 750 °C with a residence time of 4 sec, resulted in an NH 3 conversion of 100%, while no SO 2 was detected in the products.

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