The present disclosure relates to a method for chemically modifying particles of a bicarbonate salt in a co-rotating twin-screw extruder and chemically modified bicarbonate particles prepared therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to a method for controlling an amount of carbonate salt formed during chemical modification of bicarbonate salt particles.

The present disclosure relates to a method for chemically modifying particles of a bicarbonate salt in a co-rotating twin-screw extruder and chemically modified bicarbonate particles prepared therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to a method for controlling an amount of carbonate salt formed during chemical modification of bicarbonate salt particles.

The present disclosure relates to a method for chemically modifying particles of a bicarbonate salt in a co-rotating twin-screw extruder and chemically modified bicarbonate particles prepared therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to a method for controlling an amount of carbonate salt formed during chemical modification of bicarbonate salt particles.

Method for producing sodium bicarbonate particles by spray-drying of an aqueous solution comprising 1 to 10% by weight of sodium bicarbonate and an additive selected from the group consisting of: magnesium salt, sodium alkylbenzene sulfonate and soybean lecithin. Sodium bicarbonate particles obtainable by such process and comprising at least 20 mg of the additive per kg of sodium bicarbonate particles.

Hydrogen sulfide is scrubbed from a gas stream to prepare dissolved alkali metal sulfide or hydrosulfide, which is used to prepare feed electrolyte solution for electrochemical processing to generate alkali metal hydroxide in catholyte and polysulfide in anolyte, which may be recovered from an electrochemical reactor and which may be subjected to further processing to precipitate elemental sulfur. Aqueous scrubbing solution may include alkali metal carbonate capture agent to capture hydrogen sulfide in alkali metal bicarbonate The gas stream may include carbon dioxide in addition to hydrogen sulfide, and a ratio of dissolved alkali metal carbonate to bicarbonate may be increased prior to electrochemical processing.

We have described herein a method and associated apparatus that can halt global warming with significant economic benefits. They include (1), re-scrub half the carbon dioxide emitted from calcining baking soda into soda ash to produce twice as much soda ash and twice as much ammonium chloride as comparing with the standard Solvay ammonia soda ash process; Use the ammonium chloride as sugarcane fertilizer producing fuel ethanol, and bagasse, a photosynthesized bio-fuel from carbon dioxide already presented in the earth atmosphere for power generation, and (2), expand the sugarcane plantation areas into desert oasis using desert heat to produce distilled water for irrigation, pumped by solar heated hydraulic press pumps to supplement insufficient rain forest resources on earth's continents to accelerate reaching carbon neutral on capture annually twenty five billion tons of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from earth atmosphere economically.

We have described herein a method and associated apparatus that can halt global warming with significant economic benefits. They include re-scrubbing half the carbon dioxide emitted from calcining baking soda into soda ash to produce twice as much soda ash and twice as much ammonium chloride as compared with the standard Solvay ammonia soda ash process, collecting from calcining exhaust a carbon dioxide and water mixture, transferring the carbon dioxide and water mixture to a hydraulic press for use as a multi component working medium.

A process for preparing sodium bicarbonate particles, comprising the steps of: (a) adding at least one alkali metal carbonate to an aqueous solution in order to form an aqueous composition; wherein the alkali metal carbonate comprises sodium carbonate and wherein the aqueous composition comprises at least one polycarboxylic acid and/or the salts thereof, in an amount of at least 200 ppm based on the weight of the aqueous composition; and (b) precipitating solid particles comprising sodium bicarbonate crystals and separating said sodium bicarbonate particles from the aqueous composition, in order to obtain sodium bicarbonate particles and an aqueous mother liquor.

Hydrogen sulfide is scrubbed from a gas stream to prepare dissolved alkali metal sulfide or hydrosulfide, which is used to prepare feed electrolyte solution for electrochemical processing to generate alkali metal hydroxide in catholyte and polysulfide in anolyte, which may be recovered from an electrochemical reactor and which may be subjected to further processing to precipitate elemental sulfur. Aqueous scrubbing solution may include alkali metal carbonate capture agent to capture hydrogen sulfide in alkali metal bicarbonate The gas stream may include carbon dioxide in addition to hydrogen sulfide, and a ratio of dissolved alkali metal carbonate to bicarbonate may be increased prior to electrochemical processing.

Process for the production of reactive composition particles comprising at least 60% by weight of sodium carbonate and having a BET specific surface of at least 4 m.sup.2/g, according to which particles based on sodium bicarbonate and/or sodium sesquicarbonate having a median particle size D.sub.50 of less than 35 m are brought into contact with a stream of hot gases having a temperature of at least 100 C. in order to convert the sodium bicarbonate into sodium carbonate by calcination, the stream of hot gases comprising calcined particles subsequently being subjected to a separation stage in order to obtain, on the one hand, the reactive composition particles and, on the other hand, a separated stream of hot gases comprising CO.sub.2 and steam, the separated stream of hot gases being at least partly recycled upstream of the separation stage.