Sulfur handling & melting

Sebastian Brechtel
Product & Strategy Manager

Sulfur handling and melting process steps

Sulfur storage
Solid sulfur dosing
Sulfur melting
Sulfur filtration
Leaf filter
Polishing / Police filter
Liquid sulfur storage

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Sulfur Handling & Melting

Sulfur Melting in ext. Heat Exchanger & Filtration & Storage

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Sulfur Storage
Bulk Storage

Liquid Sulfur Storage

45,000 t

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Sulfur storage under roof recommended

Higher CAPEX
Safety concept needed
Less impact on
environment

Minimized pollution = loss

of sulfur

Acidity control

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Solid Sulfur-Day Bin

Features
Bin for two sulfur melters
Two independent discharge systems for
each melter

High flexibility
- Adjustable sulfur feed of each
melter

Reduced Invest cost, only one

installation

Additional buffer capacity

More flexibility by feeding from
storage to day bin

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Solid Sulfur-Day Bin

Alternative Payloader

Smaller capacity plants

Man power required
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Sulfur melting and filtration

Features

Sulfur melting tank above ground

No pits why?
Dead zones in rectangular
shaped pits

Solids settling
No heat and mass transfer in
dead zones

Leakages not visible

= LARGE & INEFFICIENT

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Sulfur melting and filtration

Features

Sulfur melting tank above ground

Tanks advantages
Circular without dead zones
Easy to agitate well
High efficiency mass and heat
transfer

Easier cleaning
Efficient:
40 t/h sulfur melting in tank of
7 m diameter
4 m height
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Sulfur melting and filtration

Features

Sulfur melting tank above ground

No pits
Front-end loader sulfur feed or
Sulfur day bin dosing

Good access for maintenance

Heating coils removable or
external shell and tube heat
exchanger

One single agitator in melter

Leaf filter & polishing filter
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Sulfur Melting Tank - Dirty Sulfur

Features

Full drainage of the tank possible for

maintenance

Easier removal of non-molten , undesired solids collected at the lowest

part of the vessel

Better access to equipment parts

Removable heating coils
Carbon steel with brick-lined section
in upper part of the melter

Natural overflow to dirty sulfur pump

tank
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Sulfur Melting Tank - Dirty Sulfur

Flat Bottom

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Sulfur Melting Tank

Features

minimized number of weld seams by

bending design

heating bundle removable from top of

melter by filled up melter

individual replacement of each heating

coil

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Sulfur Leaf Filter

Features
Hydraulic movement of Filter Shell
Avoiding filter cake disposals on
movement
system , Hanging shell arrangement
prefered
Solid filter plate support system
Personal risk elimination by disposal
opening below filter frame
All utility and sulfur connections at
fixed head except the shell heating
device

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Police - / Polishing - Filter

Features
Filter candle type
sinter material allows
high filtering efficiency,
steam and chemical
cleaning

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Ceramic vs. wounded glas fibre candles

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Pro
Efficient
High capacity

Pro
Cost

Con
Cost
Cleaning difficult

Con
Capacity
Single use

Ceramic vs. wounded glas fibre candles

Design decision triggered by level of impurities

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