Kinetic Modeling Study of the Industrial Sulfur Recovery Process for Operating Condition Optimization

Table 5

Original industrial data and the optimization result.

	Original situation	Optimization situation
Acid gas (kg/s)	13.007	13.007
Air (kg/s)	14.869	14.711
Excess air coefficient	0.955	0.945
Temperature in TR (K)	1270	1280
Temperature of cooling water (K)	500	500
Sulfur production (kg/s)	6.698	6.801
Sulfur recovery efficiency (%)	96.07%	97.54%