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Sulfuric Acid Plant

Brief Overview

Capacity:

500 T/d @ 100%
 

Technology:

Stearns-Roger
 

Built:

1980
 

Major Equipment:

For anhydre / 100%
- Boiler 26 T/h @ 60 bars
- Alimentation pumps, brand: GUINARD 35 m3/h @ 740 m
- Turbo pumps, brand: BREGUET 225 m3/h
- Gear pump 75 KW

For oleum and dilution
- C.S horiz. Steel, Tanks 9 to 60 m3
- Spiral heat exhangers S.S 80 m2, brand: ALFA LAVAL
- Storages, C.S: steel inox 50 to 1 200 m3 in glasse-lined 25 m3
- Pumps: 500 m3 / h @ 20 m, brand: Rheinhutte, Breguet, Iwaki, Moret, Salmson, Lefi, Jeumont-Schneider, K.S.B 500 m3 to 20 m

For Sodium bisulfite
- Storages inox vertical, 37 m3 et 540 m3, horizon hard rubber: 50 m3
- Pumps: 150 m3 / h et 20 m3 / h, brand: DURCO et IWAKI
- Tubular heat exhangers: 122 m2
- S.S and brick-lined columns
 

Process Description

Contact single absorption. Then washing for S0² in smokes with soda, producing sulfitique solution, use for a production of soda bisulfite (60 T/d). Oleum production and acid dilution 92%