Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
6-30-1973
Degree Name
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
First Advisor
Edward Charles Roche, Jr.
Second Advisor
Saul I. Kreps
Third Advisor
John E. McCormick
Abstract
A computer program which calculates a complete heat and material balance around a "split feed" Claus sulfur recovery plant was written in Fortran IV for the RCA Spectra 70 computer. The program provides for up to three catalytic reactors, the hot gas bypass method of reheating, and a feed gas containing hydrogen sulfide, water vapor, hydrogen, and nitrogen. The program user specifies as input data the feed stream composition and temperature, the number of reactors, the combustion air temperature, the conversion in each reactor, the outlet temperature in each condenser, and the fraction of burner exit gas used for reheating the feed gases to each reactor. The program prints out the input data, the adiabatic flame temperature of the burner combustion gases, the cooling load of the waste heat boiler and each condenser, the reheater heating loads, and a complete stream summary.
Recommended Citation
Woolley, Thomas R., "Computer simulation of a split feed Claus sulfur recovery plant" (1973). Theses. 2478.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/2478
