ES2012468B3 - INSTALLATION OF COOLING, DEHUMIDIFICATION, AND DENAFTENIZATION AND DEALCHITRANIZATION OF COIL DISTILLATION GASES. - Google Patents

Abstract

The process and respective plant are designed to process the gas distilled out of coal and exiting from coke-ovens (1), through a first cooling step down to 80-85 DEG C, by means of water sprays, thus obtaining a partial condensation of tar and naphthalene which will be collected in a manifold-tank or header (3) together with the cooling water and steam condensate. Thereafter, the gas is separated from the condensed materials and is then further cooled in a water-spray tower (11) down to a temperature of 2-30 DEG C to cause the total condensation of tar and almost total condensation of naphthalene and steam, thus purifying the gas from said materials. Naphthalene is removed from the cooling water and condensate flowing out of said tower (11) by absorbing it completely into the tar which is also contained in said water, by processing said water in a suitable decantation and flotation tank (18) where tar will settle down and naphthalene will float. Tar and naphthalene will be removed through suitable ducts (20,21) from the bottom and surface, respectively, and then introduced into a single piping (22) where they will contact with each other and tar will absorb naphthalene by dissolving it. Water from various sections of the plant will collect in a decanter (9) where the tar that has absorbed naphthalene settles down and is removed, whilst the purified water is re-cycled. Suitable provisions are utilized to promote and to accelerate to a maximum extent the absorption of naphthalene into the tar, during all the steps of the process.