Reclaiming method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10940431-B2
Application number	US-201916580306-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2019
Priority date	Jan 17, 2014
Publication date	Mar 9, 2021
Grant date	Mar 9, 2021

Abstract

A reclaiming method is disclosed including conducting evaporation by introducing a part of the absorbent to recover CO2 or H2S in a gas in a closed system recovery unit and separating a degraded substance contained in the absorbent from the absorbent to be introduced into an evaporator and obtain recovery steam containing an absorbent and CO2 or H2S by a heating section that is provided on a circulation line that circulates in the evaporator; and removing ionic degraded substance by cooling the concentrate obtained in the evaporation and removing an ionic degraded substance in the concentrate after the cooling, wherein a purified concentrate from which the ionic degraded substance has been removed is reused as a purified absorbent.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A reclaiming method comprising:
conducting evaporation by introducing a part of an absorbent to recover CO 2 or H 2 S in a gas in a recovery unit into an evaporator and heating and concentrating the part of the absorbent to obtain recovery steam containing the absorbent and CO 2 or H 2 S and concentrate;
discharging the recovery steam from a top of the evaporator;
drawing off and supplying the concentrate from a bottom side of the evaporator;
removing an ionic degraded substance by cooling the concentrate supplied from the evaporator and removing the ionic degraded substance contained in the concentrate after the cooling to obtain a purified concentrate; and
reusing purified concentrate as a purified absorbent in the recovery unit.

2. The reclaiming method according to claim 1 , wherein
in the removing the ionic degraded substance, electrodialysis or an ion exchange resin is used.

3. The reclaiming method according to claim 2 , wherein, in the removing the ionic degraded substance, the ion exchange resin is used,
the ion exchange resin is regenerated by introducing a regenerating chemical into the ion exchange resin and concentrating a resin-regenerated waste liquid obtained by regenerating the ion exchange resin with the introduced chemical on the evaporator side.

4. The reclaiming method according to claim 1 , comprising irradiating an ultraviolet light to decompose a nonionic degraded substance contained in the concentrate after removing the ionic degraded substance.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Eng Ltd

Inventors

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

Classifications

• C02F1/325

  Irradiation devices or lamp constructions · CPC title

• B01J47/00

  Ion-exchange processes in general; Apparatus therefor (ion-exchange chromatography processes or apparatus B01D15/08) · CPC title

• C02F1/42

  by ion-exchange (ion-exchange in general B01J) · CPC title

• C02F1/048

  Purification of waste water by evaporation · CPC title

• B01D53/1462

  Removing mixtures of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide · CPC title