The Recovery of Sulfur Resource during Regeneration Process for the Hot Gas Desulfurization Sorbent

Abstract

Recovery of sulfur source is an important goal of industrialization regeneration for hot coal gas desulfurization sorbent. The different sulfide forms of sulfur produced in regeneration atmosphere and the method for recovering of sulfur source are discussed in this paper. The regeneration exhausted gas of high temperature desulfurization sorbent mainly has several forms of sulfides: sulfur dioxide, hydrosulfide and elemental sulfur, sulfide form and regeneration atmosphere have a direct relationship. Recovering sulfur dioxide utilize the reduction of CO or ammonia, and recovering hydrosulfide use selective catalytic oxidation which is the desulfurization method for achieve prospects of industrialization, but there is catalyst poisoning in these methods. We point out that the direct recovery of elemental sulfur from different forms of sulfide will be the focus of future research.