Jt. Konttinen et al., HOT GAS DESULFURIZATION WITH ZINC TITANATE SORBENTS IN A FLUIDIZED-BED .2. REACTOR MODEL, Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 36(6), 1997, pp. 2340-2345
High-temperature high-pressure sulfur removal is considered to be one
of the key steps in the hot gas cleanup train of an integrated gasific
ation combined cycle (IGCC) process. Regenerable mixed metal oxide sor
bents such as zinc titanates are prime candidates for this purpose. As
part of sulfur removal process development, Carbona Corp. is developi
ng fluidized bed reactor models for scale-up. In the first part of thi
s work, the parameters for the unreacted shrinking core and overlappin
g grain models were determined to describe the rate of zinc titanate i
n H2S capture. A method using these sorbent particle conversion models
for fluidized bed application is presented in this paper. Both models
show a reasonably good fit to the high-pressure fluidized bed sulfida
tion test data, with the same order of magnitude parameters as obtaine
d in the previously reported solid conversion rate tests.