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United States Patent Office Patented Jan 3,489,677 United States Patent Office Patented Jan. 13, 1970 2 oil and fractions thereof with a reactive aqueous solution 3,489,677 REMOVAL OF ELEMENTAL SULFUR CON capable of extracting from the oil any entrained or dis TAMENANTS FROM PETROLEUM OLS Solved elemental sulfur present therein. William H. Thompson, Lafayette, and Eldred E. Young, Other objects will become apparent during the follow Concord, Calif., assignors to Shell Oil Company, New ing discussion of the invention. York, N.Y., a corporation of Delaware No Drawing. Filed Nov. 20, 1967, Ser. No. 684,507 SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Ent. C. C10g 29/02 Now in accordance with the present invention it has U.S. C. 208-236 11. Claims been found that elemental sulfur can be separated effec O tively from crude oil and fractions thereof containing less than about 5%, and generally between about 0.5% ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE and 1.5% of elemental sulfur, by contacting such con A method of purifying elemental sulfur contaminated taminated oils with an aqueous solution containing a oils by treating such elemental sulfur contaminated oils mixture of an alkali hydrosulfide and hydroxide such as with an aqueous solution containing a mixture of alkali 5 ammonium hydrosulfide and ammonium hydroxide for a hydrosulfide and corresponding hydroxide, e.g., ammo period of time and under controlled temperature condi nium hydrosulfide and ammonium hydroxide. tions to effect a reaction between the elemental sulfur dispersed or solubilized in 1he oil and the alkali com pounds present in the aqueous solution so that on sepa The present invention relates to a new and novel proc 20 ration of the oil phase from the aqueous phase, the sulfur ess for removing elemental sulfur from elemental sulfur has been transferred in the latter phase where it is pres contaminated petroleum oils. More particularly, the in ent as ammonium polysulfide. Elemental sulfur can be vention is directed to a process for the removal of dis recovered therefrom by heating the solution preferably solved and entrained elemental sulfur from elemental above 200 F. (240-250 F.), e.g., by a steam treat sulfur contaminated crude oils or fractions thereof, said 25 thereby effecting a chemical decomposition reaction oils or fractions thereof being used as carrier vehicles whereby the ammonium polysulfide in the aqueous solu in the pipeline transportation of sulfur-oil slurries. tion breaks down into elemental sulfur, ammonia, hydro gen sulfide and water. The precipitated elemental sulfur BACKGROUNED OF THE INVENTION is readily removed from the residual aqueous solution by It is well know in the art that very small amounts of 30 suitable means such as filtration, centrifugation or gravity naturally occurring elemental sulfur and sulfur com settling while the remaining aqueous solution can be re pounds are present in petroleum oils or are formed due cycled and admixed with the vaporized portion of the to chemical refinement of oils, such as by sulfuric acid aqueous contacting solution for further use to purify treatment of oils, and that these sulfur and sulfur com fresh batches of sulfur contaminated oils. The reaction pounds can be effectively removed by chemical process taking place when the vaporized and aqueous liquid por ing such oils with ammonia or alkali compounds, e.g., tions of the solvent are remixed after steam treating is alkali metal hydroxide, as evidenced by reference to as follows: U.S. Patents 1,300,816; 1,413,005; 1,423,712; 1974,724; HO--HS--NH->NH+HS--NH4OH (I) 1974,725; 3,185,641 and 3,250,697. However, these 40 methods or other related methods known in the art are By the process of this invention elemental sulfur con either ineffective or quite costly for removing elemental taminated oils having a sulfur content of from about 1% sulfur from oils which have been contaminated with to about 2% can be reduced to values of less than 0.01% large amounts (0.3-5% or 0.5-1.5%) of elemental sulfur. sulfur or even less. It is to be clearly understood that the Oils contaminated with such large amounts of elemental process of the present invention effectively removes ele sulfur must be effectively treated to remove essentially all 45 mental sulfur contaminants from oils and that the indige of the entrained sulfur prior to processing these oils into nous sulfur in chemical forms in the oil other than the industrial products such as gasoline, fuel oils, lubricating elemental form before becoming contaminated with oils, etc. Also the presence of sulfur in these products elemental sulfur is unaffected by the contacting aqueous causes corrosion, objectionable odors, air pollution etc., 50 solution of the present invention. and therefore its removal is essential. Oils can become The ratio of the oil to the contacting or treating aqueous contaminated with such large amounts of elemental sulfur solution can be varied over wide limits of from 20:1 to as when such oils are used as carrier vehicles in pipeline 1:20 and preferably between 10:1 and 5:1, respectively, transportation of sulfur as described in the Redcay U.S. and the treatment can be carried out at ambient tempera Patent 2,798,772 or in copending patent application Ser. 55 tures or elevated temperatures, but preferably below 200 No. 663,755, filed Aug. 28, 1967. Although these refer F. The aqueous phase can be separated from the oil ences, e.g., the Redcay patent, describe methods of sepa phase by any suitable means such as gravity settling, cen rating the oil from the sulfur at the terminal end and trifuging, etc. The ammonium polysulfide solution recov thereafter purifying by chemical means the sulfur by ered can be decomposed by suitable means such as in a removing any dissolved or entrained oil therefrom, no 60 closed vessel or under nitrogen blanket to exclude air. mention is made of purifying the carrier, namely the oil, Thus, on heating or distillation of the solution either which can be recycled and reused as a sulfur carrier liquid or granular solid yellow sulfur is precipitated and without further purification. Available art is lacking on removed, while ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and some Water suggesting means for purifying oil carriers used in pipe are driven off, collected, cooled and recycled after ab line transportation of sulfur as a sulfur-oil slurry. 65 sorption in the cooled aqueous liquid remaining after sulfur An object of the present invention is directed to a proc removal for further treatment of fresh batches of sulfur ess for removing sulfur from sulfur contaminated oils. contaminated oils. When necessary or desirable, the Still another object of the present invention is directed treated oil can be further contacted with additional to a process for removing elemental sulfur from ele amounts of the aqueous treating solution to effect removal mental sulfur contaminated petroleum oil. 70 of any sulfur which has not been removed by the initial Also, it is an object of the present invention to purify treatment and the process can be repeated as necessary crude oil and fractions thereof by chemically treating the until essentially all of the entrained and dissolved ele 3,489,677 3. 4 mental sulfur is removed. Thus, a sulfur contaminated oil 663,755 and as a result become contaminated with ele can be treated by the process of this invention so that the mental sulfur which must be removed prior to refinery sulfur content of the treated oil is below about 0.0% processing such as an oil and fractions thereof into in and such oils can be safely processed in refineries to dustrial products such as gasoline, fuel oil, lubricating oil produce industrial products such as gasoline and lube oils, and other industrial products. etc. The foregoing description of the invention is merely PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE intended to be explanatory thereof. Various changes in INVENTION the details of the described method may be made within the scope of the appended claims without departing from To summarize, the steps in removing elemental sulfur the spirit of the invention. present as contaminates in oils comprises: O We claim as our invention: (1) Contacting or treating the elemental sulfur con 1. A method of purifying elemental sulfur contaminated taminated oil with an aqueous solution containing a mix petroleum oil comprising contacting the oil with an aque ture of alkali hydrosulfide and hydroxide, e.g., a mix ous solution containing a mixture of ammonium hydro ture of ammonium hydrosulfide and ammonium hy sulfide and ammonium hydroxide and removing the Sul droxide, preferably at ambient temperature for a period fur-free oil phase from the aqueous phase. of time sufficient to effect a reaction between the elemental 2. The process of claim 1 wherein the contacting of the sulfur and the ammonium compounds in the aqueous solu two phases is effected at ambient temperature. tion; 3. The process of claim 1 wherein the ratio of the oil (2) Separating the oil phase from the aqueous phase phase to the aqueous phase varies from 20:1 to 1:20, re and further treating the separated oil phase if necessary 20 spectively. by the process of step (1); 4. The process of claim 1 wherein the elemental sulfur (3) Treating the separated aqueous phase containing a content of the oil is at least 0.3% prior to treatment. polysulfide, e.g., ammonium polysulfide, as a result of the 5. The process of claim 1 wherein the two phases are reaction of step (1) to effect the breaking down of the separated and the aqueous phase is heated to above 200 ammonium polysulfide into elemental Sulfur, hydrogen 25 F.
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