Reclaiming device, reclaiming method, and recovery unit for CO2 or H2S or both

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10471379-B2
Application number	US-201515110829-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 7, 2015
Priority date	Jan 17, 2014
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

An evaporator is provided that separates, from a degraded substance, an absorbent branched off and introduced, a heating section which is interposed on a circulation line L 21 that circulates the absorbent introduced into this evaporator, heats the circulating absorbent to obtain gaseous recovery steam containing a vaporized absorbent and CO 2 , a concentrate branch line L 22 that branches off a part of the absorbent circulating through the circulation line L 21 at a bottom of the evaporator from the circulation line L 21 as a concentrate, a cooler that is interposed on this concentrate branch line L 22 and cools the concentrate, an ionic degraded substance removal section that removes an ionic degraded substance in the cooled concentrate, and a purified absorbent discharge line L 23 that reuses the concentrate as a purified absorbent from which the ionic degraded substance is removed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A reclaiming device comprising:
an evaporator that is configured to introduce a part of an absorbent to recover CO 2 or H 2 S in a gas in a closed system recovery unit through an introduction line and separate a degraded substance contained in the absorbent from the absorbent;
a heating section that is provided on a circulation line configured to draw off the absorbent from the evaporator and circulate the absorbent therein, and is configured to heat the circulating absorbent to obtain recovery steam containing an absorbent and CO 2 or H 2 S;
a recovery steam discharge line that is configured to discharge the recovery steam from a top side of the evaporator;
a concentrate drawing off line that is drawn off from the circulation line and is configured to supply a concentrate from a bottom side of the evaporator;
a cooler that is interposed on the concentrate drawing off line and is configured to cool the concentrate;
an ionic degraded substance removal section that is configured to remove an ionic degraded substance in the cooled concentrate; wherein
a concentrated waste water line that is branched off from the concentrated drawing off line and is configured to discharge a concentrated waste water; and
a first on-off valve that is provided between the branched portion of the concentrated waste water line and the cooler on the concentrated drawing off line, wherein
the reclaiming device is configured to concentrate an absorbent containing the degraded substance in the evaporator by closing the first on-off valve to concentrate the degraded substance and discharge the concentrated waste water to the outside through the concentrated waste water line.

2. The reclaiming device according to claim 1 , wherein
the ionic degraded substance removal section is an electrodialyser or an ion exchange resin device.

3. The reclaiming device according to claim 2 , in the case where the ionic degraded substance removal section is the ion exchange resin device, comprising:
a chemical introduction section that introduces a regenerating chemical to the ion exchange resin device; and
a recirculation line that branches off a resin-regenerated waste liquid obtained by regenerating an ion exchange resin with the introduced chemical from a purified absorbent discharge line and recirculates the resin-regenerated waste liquid to the evaporator side, wherein
the ion exchange resin is regenerated by regenerating the ion exchange resin with a regenerating chemical as well as stopping the introduction and discharge of the absorbent and concentrating the resin-regenerated waste liquid in the evaporator while returning the resin-regenerated waste liquid to the evaporator.

4. The reclaiming device according to claim 1 , comprising:
an ultraviolet irradiation section that decomposes a nonionic degraded substance, which is provided downstream of the ionic degraded substance removal section.

5. A recovery unit for CO 2 or H 2 S or both, comprising:
an absorber that brings a gas containing CO 2 or H 2 S or both into contact with an absorbent and removes CO 2 or H 2 S or both;
an absorbent regenerator that regenerates a solution that has absorbed CO 2 or H 2 S or both to obtain an absorbent; and
the reclaiming device according to claim 1 which draws off a part of the absorbent regenerated in the absorbent regenerator and removes a coexisting substance in the absorbent, wherein
recovery steam recovered from the reclaiming device is introduced into the regenerator as well as the absorbent regenerated in the absorbent regenerator circulates and is reused in the absorber, wherein
the recovery unit is configured to reuse a purified absorbent from which the ionic degraded substance has been removed in the reclaiming device.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd
• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Eng Ltd

Inventors

• Hagimoto Akiyori
• Oishi Tsuyoshi
• Hamada Tsutomu
• Yukumoto Atsuhiro

Classifications

• B01J49/00

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• B01J41/04

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• B01J39/04

  Processes using organic exchangers · CPC title

• B01D2258/02

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• B01D2252/20478

  Alkanolamines · CPC title