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The Southern African Institute of Mining & Metallurgy
ZAMBIA
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State of the Art Gas Absorption
Technologies
Outline
1. Overview of CTI;
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Technologies
Corporate Profile
Cansolv Technologies Inc. (CTI) founded in 1997
Headquarters in Montreal, Canada
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Technologies
Corporate Profile
SO2 Technology
9 Cansolv SO2 Scrubbing units in operation;
CO2 Technology
3 Cansolv CO2 Capture demo plants in detailed
engineering
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Technologies
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Technologies
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Technologies
Amine Characteristics
Amine developed for oxidised environments
Oxidation degradation losses per year < 2% of
annual inventory
Very low amine volatility (ppb levels)
Amine in salt form undetectable losses with
treated gas
High tolerance for dust ingress
High tolerance for strong acid ingress
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Technologies
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Technologies
How CTI Customers Handle By-Product
By-Product
Profile
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Technologies
Commercial Units Metallurgical and Acid Plant
Applications
Application Location Flow By-Product Feed SO2 SO2 Status
(Nm3/hr) Conc. Emission
s
SARP Acid N/S 40,000 H2SO4 5,000 ppm 15 ppm Operating
Plant America (existing) (s/u 2002)
Lead Smelter Asia- 34,000 H2SO4 0.1 90 ppm Operating
Pacific (existing) 12.5% (s/u 2005)
Copper Anode Asia- 43,000 H2SO4 0.09 2% 50 ppm Operating
Furnace Pacific (existing) (s/u 2007)
Catalyst N/S 48,000 Liquid 9100 ppm 100 ppm Operating
recovery America SO2/Bisulfite (s/u 2008)
roaster (new)
Sinter Machine Asia- 350,000 H2SO4 2400 ppm 140 ppm Start-up
(secondary) Pacific (existing)
Sinter Machine Asia- 2x H2SO4 800 ppm 40 ppm Start-Up
(primary) Pacific 510,000 (new)
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Technologies
Lead Smelter Offgas
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Technologies
965,000 Nm3/hr
5 absorbers, 1 regenerat
New sulphuric acid plan
Single absorption with
Cansolv APTG
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Technologies
Key Advantages in Smelter
Applications
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Technologies
1. Treats Variable & Dilute SO2
Load
Load levelling design
Vary lean amine flow to SO2 absorber
Constant rich amine flow to regenerator
Larger amine inventory
Maintain SO2 emissions
Decouple variable nature of smelter gas from
sulphuric acid production
SO2 product & Sulphuric acid production are continuous
at constant flowrate
Eliminates need to burn sulphur to strengthen AP feed
Design capacity based on average smelter SO2 load
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Technologies
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Technologies
2. Flexibility in gas cleaning
design
Amine has high tolerance for
dust and SO3 ingress
Optimise between gas cleaning
and amine purification
Reduced gas cleaning
increases amine purification
required
Capital/operating cost
advantages often favour amine
purification
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Technologies
2. Flexibility in gas cleaning
design
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Technologies
3. Manage SO2 from multiple sources
at a single site
Multiple absorbers may be used with a single
regenerator
Several secondary sources: furnaces, converters
Acid plant tail gas has low SO2 load vs. smelter
Leverage existing Cansolv plant to minimise capex
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Technologies
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Technologies
Thank you!
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