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Flue gas at 600 c will be cooled to 450 C before entering a cyclone removing 80 % of char particles with

diameter greater that 5 micrometer and 56 % of the tar. A second cyclone is needed to remove more of
the particulates. The flue gas will then be cooled to 250 C before going to the sand bed filter removing
80 % of the char and 90 % of tar. The flue gas will be cooled to 50 C preparing it for the next unit.

The gas enters the absorber at 50 C and 7.06 atm. An amine-based solvent will be used composing of 30
wt. % DEA and 70 % water. A ratio of 35:65 for the solvent and flue gas will be used. This will result to
the removal of 94.30% of CO2. The sweet gas going to the power generation unit is composed of CO, H2,
CO2, AND CH4. The sour gas on the other hand with CO2, H2S, and solvent mixture will proceed to the
stripper. An estimated vaporization loss for the amine solvent with 30 % of DEA is 5.878X10^-5 kg/ton of
solvent is neglected. Before going to the stripper, the sour gas will pass through a heat exchanger with
at outlet temperature of 42.3 C. In the stripper column, the acid gas composed of CO2 and H2S will be
separated from the solvent and solid, which will be going to the amine tank for reuse. The acid gas will
have an outlet temperature of 115-126 C will pass through a cooler to have an outlet temperature of 72
C.

The acid gas will then proceed to the enrichment tower. The same solvent will be used for this tower,
this will separate the off gas which will proceed to the CO2 liquefaction unit with the captured H2S. the
Off-gas stream will be composed of CO2 (95.8 % removal) and H2S (0.002%). The bottom stream will be
composed of the solvent, H2S and CO2 that has not been removed. The bottom stream will then pass
through a heat exchanger having an outlet temperature of 99 C and 4.08 atm as pressure. The gas will
then be separated to two streams using a regenerator. This will separate acid gas (H2S AND CO2) with
the solvent. Then to increase the outlet temperature of 62.43 C, the acid gas will pass a heat exchanger
to achieve a 292.71 C which is the inlet temperature for the next unit.

The Acid gas will pass through a thermal reactor with air to produce process gas (CO2, N2, H2O, S and
unreacted SO2) based on the claus reaction. The air to acid gas ratio is 1.6 and the outlet temperature is
1094.05 C and pressure is 143 kpa. The claus reaction is composed of two reactions, H2S + 3/2O2 = SO2
+ H2O, where in the limiting reactant is O2. And the second reaction is SO2 + 2H2S = 3S2 + 2H2O, where
in the limiting reactant is H2S. The process gas is then cooled through a waste heat boiler cooling the gas
from 1094.05 C to 371.15 C and reducing the pressure to 132 kpa. After cooling the process gas will now
enter the condenser separating the Liquid S from the rest of the process gas. The Liquid S will be stored
to tanks. The process gas will now go through a catalytic converter to further reduce the sulfur
contents. The catalytic converter will use CRS-31 catalyst. The reaction in the catalytic converter is SO2 +
2H2S = 3S2 + 2H2O, where H2S is also the limiting reactant. This process gas will then be condensed to
recover more liquid Sulfur.

As for the captured CO2, this will be cooled and compressed to obtain it in its liquid state. This will lead
to a drastic increase in mass of the product CO2.

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