Sr No.

Component, dry Feed Purified CO2 Tail gas H2S

basis syngas syngas
1 H2 62.4% 95.27% 0.84% 0.07% 0.31%
2 N2+ Ar 0.51% 0.76% 0.08% 25.32% 4.36%
3 C0+CH4 2.67% 3.97% 0.33% 0.04% 0.08%
4 CO2 34.10% 20ppm 98.75% 74.57% 68.01%
5 H2S+COS 0.25% 0.1ppm 2ppm 5ppm 27.24%
6 Flowrate, 6021.1 3936.1 1283.9 1003.6 54.2
kmole/h
7 Pressure, MPa 7.8 7.6 0.18 0.11 0.25
8 Power, shaft 1100kW
9 Steam, 0.5MPa 6490kg/h
10 Refrigeration 1980kW
11 Cooling water 5000 lpm
12 Nitrogen at 0.3 256.7kmol
MPa e/h
In rectisol process syngas and methanol act as feed and syngas is
mixed with methanol and chilled with cold product gases. This
mixture is then separated in flash drum. As methanol is in liquid
form and contains most of the water from feed (Syngas).This
liquid mixture is then depressurized, warmed and fed into the
water splitter (binary distillation). In reboiler steam is used as a
heating purpose. Water is withdrawn from bottom of the column.
Methanol in liquid form is fed into the top of the column and
methanol/ vapor is removed as the overhead product. Gas is fed
into the column as absorption tower is splited into three sections.
This column is used to separate H2S and CO2 on the basis of
their solubilities.
• Top section removes CO2 from the syngas
• The bottom section removes H2S and COS
from the middle section.
• The middle section also removes CO2 from
syngas.
• Methanol in chilled form is fed into above
section.
• From the top section liquid is removed and
cooled by exchanging steam with others, again
injected into the middle section.
• Heat of absorption is removed from the
middle section by refrigeration coils.
• From the top of the column pure syngas is
removed. Liquid is removed from bottom and
middle sections. Both streams which are in
liquid form is depressurized. Flashed off gases
are recompressed and reinjected into the
bottom of the column and liquid removed
from the bottom of the column contains H2S
and COS.
• The CO2 and tail gas columns are designed to
remove CO2 without removing H2S and COS.