The invention relates to a gas scrubbing process and plant for purifying raw synthesis gas by physical absorption in methanol. A raw synthesis gas stream which includes hydrogen and carbon monoxide as desired constituents and water and acid gases as undesired constituents is admixed with methanol and subsequently cooled below the freezing point of water. According to the invention a liquid phase including methanol and water is separated from the cooled raw synthesis gas stream. Acid gases are removed from the remaining gaseous phase by physical absorption in methanol at elevated pressure. Separating the water from the raw synthesis gas stream before the absorption of the acid gases prevents larger amounts of water passing into the methanol circuit of the gas scrubbing process. This achieves savings in resources and certain plant parts may be smaller than is customary.

A process for removing hydrogen sulfide from a sour gas stream is presented. The method oxidizes hydrogen sulfide to sulfuric acid by reducing aqueous bromine to hydrobromic acid in solution. The aqueous bromine solution does not react with hydrocarbon components common to natural gas including methane and ethane. This allows the process to both sweeten sour gas and convert its hydrogen sulfide content to sulfuric acid in a single step. In the present process, sulfuric acid is concentrated to eliminate its bromine content prior to being removed from the system, while the remaining hydrobromic acid solution is electrolyzed to regenerate aqueous bromine and produce hydrogen. Hydrobromic acid electrolysis requires less than half the energy required by water electrolysis and is an inherently flexible load that can shed or absorb excess power to balance supply and demand.

A system and method for processing unconditioned syngas first removes solids and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOC), then removes volatile organic compounds (VOC), and then removes at least one sulfur containing compound from the syngas. Additional processing may be performed depending on such factors as the source of syngas being processed, the products, byproducts and intermediate products desired to be formed, captured or recycled and environmental considerations.

A resource recovery system for reducing carbon dioxide emissions is revealed. Salt is delivered to a first plasma decomposition unit and decomposed into sodium and chlorine. The sodium is sent to a hydrolysis unit and mixed with water to get pure hydrogen and sodium hydroxide which are respectively sent to a power generation unit for power generation and a carbon dioxide absorption unit to react with carbon dioxide from air and produce a mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. Then the mixture is delivered to an electric heating unit and broken into carbon dioxide and sodium hydroxide. The carbon dioxide is sent to a second plasma decomposition unit and decomposed into carbon and oxygen gas which is delivered to the power generation unit for generating power. Thereby catalysts, power required, and coproducts are obtained during operation of the system. Therefore, the system offers energy, environmental, and economic benefits.

A system includes: an intake tube operably connected to a power plant, the intake tube configured to transport exhaust from the power plant; a drill configured to create a hole in the side of the plant usable to receive exhaust generated by the plant, the drill configured to remain in place and function as the intake tube, the system further comprising a cooling tube operably connected to the intake tube, the cooling tube configured to receive the exhaust from the intake tube; a U-shaped tube operably connected to the cooling tube, the U-shaped tube comprising a mister configured to generate a mist; and a vacuum tube fan operably connected to the U-shaped tube, the mister configured to cause the cooled exhaust and the heated liquid to bond so as to create a sludge, the sludge falling to a bottom of the system, the sludge being removed from the system.

A fluid treatment device including: a pipe having an inlet through which fluid is introduced into the pipe from a fluid treatment space, an outlet through which sterilized fluid is discharged to the fluid treatment space, and a flow channel connecting the inlet to the outlet, the pipe providing a sterilization area in the flow channel; a solvent filling at least a portion of the sterilization area; and at least one light source module disposed in the sterilization area, and including a light source to emit sterilizing light and a substrate on which the light source is mounted, in which the fluid introduced through the inlet passes through the solvent towards the outlet, the solvent traps contaminants contained in the fluid when the fluid passes through the solvent, and the light source module sterilizes the solvent with the contaminants trapped therein.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for reducing greenhouse gas emission in a vessel and a vessel including the same, in which an absorbent liquid recycling unit is provided in two or more stages so that an unreacted aqueous ammonium salt solution remaining in ammonia water is removed to maintain a concentration of ammonia water at a certain level, thereby increasing a recovery rate of an absorbent liquid and preventing a deterioration in greenhouse gas absorption performance. Or in which exhaust gas is cooled by a heat exchange method, thereby preventing a decrease in a concentration of an absorbent liquid, and an absorbent liquid recycling unit is provided in two or more stages so that an unreacted aqueous ammonium salt solution remaining in ammonia water is removed, thereby increasing a recovery rate of the absorbent liquid and preventing a deterioration in greenhouse gas absorption performance.

A flue gas can be cooled for carbon capture purposes with the use of a gas-to-gas exchanger, using air as the cooling media, downstream of a heat recovery process, and optionally upstream of a quenching process; the use of an amine chilling process to reduce the required flue gas cooling duties upstream of the CO.sub.2 absorber; the use of a gas-to-gas exchanger, using the absorber overhead as the cooling media, downstream of a heat recovery process, and optionally upstream of the quenching process; and/or the use of a quenching process in which heated water and condensate is cooled by an external cooling loop utilizing treated flue gas condensate in an evaporative cooling process.

Systems and methods for sulfur-compound removal from hydrocarbon liquids may include at least one tank defining a chamber with top and bottom ends, a gas inlet into the chamber, a gas outlet from the chamber, a fluid inlet into the chamber, and a fluid outlet from the chamber. A fluid circulation assembly creates a hydrocarbon liquid flow on a liquid path, and a gas circulation assembly circulates a gas flow along a gas path. The gas inlet and outlet and the fluid inlet and outlet of the tank may be arranged to create a crossflow and counterflow of the liquid and gas flows in the chamber of the tank such that sulfur-containing compounds are transferred from the liquid to the gas flow. A gas processor assembly may remove sulfur-containing compounds from the gas flow before recirculating the gas flow. The gas flow may be predominantly nitrogen (N2) gas.

Method and installation for treating a CO.sub.2- and H.sub.2O-containing flue gas generated by an industrial process unit before CCUS, whereby the flue gas evacuated from the unit is subjected to cooling to a temperature T2 between 100 and 600° C., whereby the cooled flue gas is pretreated in one or more particle removal and/or gas cleaning and/or drying stages and the temperature of the cooled flue gas is further reduced to a temperature T3<T2, before a first part of pretreated flue gas is subjected to CCUS, a second part of the pretreated flue gas being recycled at temperature T3 as a cooling agent and mixed with the flue gas during the controlled cooling thereof, partially or fully purified CO.sub.2 from the CCUS may be recycled at temperature T4<T2 may be recycled as a cooling agent and mixed with the flue gas during the controlled cooling.