Sulfuric acid manufacture : analysis, control and optimization

By some measure the most widely produced chemical in the world today, sulfuric acid has an extraordinary range of modern uses including phosphate fertilizer production, explosives, glue, wood preservative and lead-acid batteries. An exceptionally corrosive and dangerous acid, production of sulfuric...

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Main Author King, Matthew J.
Other Authors Davenport, W. G., Moats, Michael S.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, ©2013.
Edition2nd ed.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080982267
0080982263
1299617107
9781299617100
9780080982205
0080982204
Physical Description1 online resource

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. Production and consumption
  • 3. Sulfur burning
  • 4. Metallurgical offgas cooling and cleaning
  • 5. Regeneration of spent sulfuric acid
  • 6. Dehydrating air and gases with strong sulfuric acid
  • 7. Catalytic oxidation of SO2 to SO3
  • 8. SO2 oxidation catalyst and catalyst beds
  • 9. Production of H2SO4([scientific symbol]) from SO3(g)
  • 10. Oxidation of SO2 to so3
  • equilibrium curves
  • 11. SO2 oxidation heatup paths
  • 12. Maximum SO2 oxidation : heatup path-equilibrium curve intercepts
  • 13. Cooling first catalyst bed exit gas
  • 14. Second catalyst bed heatup path
  • 15. Maximum SO2 oxidation in a second catalyst bed
  • 16. Third catalyst bed SO2 oxidation
  • 17. SO3 and CO2 in feed gas
  • 18. Three catalyst bed acid plant
  • 19. After-H2SO4-making SO2 oxidation
  • 20. Optimum double contact acidmaking
  • 21. Enthalpies and enthalpy transfers
  • 22. Control of gas temperature by bypassing
  • 23. H2SO4 making
  • 24. Acid temperature control and heat recovery
  • 25. Making sulfuric acid from wet feed gas
  • 26. Wet sulfuric acid process fundamentals
  • 27. SO3 gas recycle for high SO2 concentration gas treatment
  • 28. Sulfur from tail gas removal processes
  • 29. Minimizing sulfur emissions
  • 30. Materials of construction
  • 31. Costs of sulfuric acid production.