Hydrogen sulfide basicity

Hydrogen chloride released dissolves in water during condensation in the crude oil distillation column overhead or in the condenser, which cause corrosion of materials at these locations. The action of hydrochloric acid is favored and accelerated by the presence of hydrogen sulfide which results in the decomposition of sulfur-containing hydrocarbons this forces the refiner to inject a basic material like ammonia at the point where water condenses in the atmospheric distillation column. 

Hydrogen sulfide ion HS and anions of the type RS are substantially less basic than hydroxide ion and react with both primary and secondary alkyl halides to give mainly substitution products... 

Natural-gas components include water vapor, carbon dioxide (qv), sometimes hydrogen sulfide, heavier hydrocarbons (qv), methane, nitrogen, small amounts of argon, traces of neon and hydrogen, and helium. The production of pure helium from natural gas requires three basic processing steps (73). 

Hydrogen Sulfide andMercaptans. Hydrogen sulfide and propylene oxide react to produce l-mercapto-2-propanol and bis(2-hydroxypropyl) sulfide (69,70). Reaction of the epoxide with mercaptans yields 1-aLkylthio- or l-arylthio-2-propanol when basic catalysis is used (71). Acid catalysts produce a mixture of primary and secondary hydroxy products, but ia low yield (72). Suitable catalysts iaclude sodium hydroxide, sodium salts of the mercaptan, tetraaLkylammonium hydroxide, acidic 2eohtes, and sodium salts of an alkoxylated alcohol or mercaptan (26,69,70,73,74). 

Hydrogen sulfide reacts with nitriles in the presence of a basic catalyst forming thioamides. A commercial example is its addition to cyanamide with the formation of thiourea [62-56-6]. ... 

The Claus process is the most widely used to convert hydrogen sulfide to sulfur. The process, developed by C. F. Claus in 1883, was significantly modified in the late 1930s by I. G. Farbenindustrie AG, but did not become widely used until the 1950s. Figure 5 illustrates the basic process scheme. A Claus sulfur recovery unit consists of a combustion furnace, waste heat boiler, sulfur condenser, and a series of catalytic stages each of which employs reheat, catalyst bed, and sulfur condenser. Typically, two or three catalytic stages are employed. 

Michael-Type Additions. Michael additions are generally used to prepare methyl 3-mercaptopropionate (eq. 10) and mercaptopropionitrile (eq. 11) by the reaction of methyl acrylate or acrylonitrile and hydrogen sulfide using a basic catalyst. This reaction proceeds as shown ... 

Hydrogen Sulfide HjS Cause of rotten egg odor corrosion Aeration, chlorination, highly basic anion exchange... 

J Consider the coke-oven gas COG sweetening process shown in Fig. 3.22. The basic objective of COG sweetening is the removal of acidic impurities, primarily hydrogen sulfide, from COG (a mixture of H2, CH4, CO, N2, NH3, CO2, and H2S). Hydrogen sulfide m undesirable impurity, because it is corrosive and contributes to SO2 emission when the G... 

These workers also prepared the thio analog of 17 (R = H) by treating 16 (R = H) with aqueous ammonia to provide the P-oxoamide, which was converted into the corresponding enolized P-thioxoamide 18 by treatment with hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen chloride in ethanol. Compound 19 was synthesized by oxidation of 18 with iodine in ethanol under basic conditions. 

Alkalinity and Lime Content. The whole mud alkalinity test procedure is a titration method which measures the volume of standard acid required to react with the alkaline (basic) materials in an oil mud sample. The alkalinity value is used to calculate the pounds per barrel unreacted excess lime in an oil mud. Excess alkaline materials, such as lime, help to stabilize the emulsion and also neutralize carbon dioxide or hydrogen sulfide acidic gases. 

Strong basic solutions are effective solvents for acid gases. However, these solutions are not normally used for treating large volumes of natural gas because the acid gases form stable salts, which are not easily regenerated. For example, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide react with aqueous sodium hydroxide to yield sodium carbonate and sodium sulfide, respectively. 

Early efforts to effect the photoinduced ring expansion of aryl azides to 3H-azepines in the presence of other nucleophiles met with only limited success. For example, irradiation of phenyl azide in hydrogen sulfide-diethyl ether, or in methanol, gave 17/-azepine-2(3//)-thione35 (5% mp 106—107 " O and 2-methoxy-3//-azepine (11 %),2 3 respectively. Later workers194 failed to reproduce this latter result, but found that in strongly basic media (3 M potassium hydroxide in methanol/dioxane) and in the presence of 18-crown-6, 17/-azepin-2(3//)-one was produced in 48% yield. In the absence of the crown ether the yield of azepinone falls to 35%. 

Group IIIA metals, however, like aluminum, will not precipitate in an acidic hydrogen sulfide solution. They will precipitate, however, if a basic hydrogen sulfide solution is introduced. Group LA metals, on the other hand, are always soluble in a hydrogen sulfide solution, regardless of whether the solution is acidic or... 

Copper and the Copper Alloys. Copper and its alloys are relatively resistant to corrosion dry, unpolluted air rarely affects them at normal temperatures surfaces of the metal or its alloys exposed to polluted air, even under ordinary atmospheric conditions, however, are tarnished by pollutants such as hydrogen sulfide and/or carbon dioxide. Given sufficient time, the activity of the pollutants result in the formation of a usually green layer, known as patina, which coats and surrounds the bulk of the metal or alloy (see Fig. 40). If the patina is chemically stable, that is, if it is hard, is non-porous, and covers the entire surface of an object, it protects the underlying metal core from further corrosion. Such a patina consists mostly of basic... 

Katasulf A process for removing hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from coke-oven gas, developed by IG Farbenindustrie in Germany in the 1920s. The basic reaction involved is the catalyzed oxidation of hydrogen sulfide to sulfur dioxide and water at approximately 420°C ... 

SulFerox A process for removing hydrogen sulfide and organic sulfur compounds from hydrocarbons, similar to the Stretford process but using an aqueous solution containing chelated iron and proprietaiy additives. The product is elemental sulfur. The basic reactions are ... 

Basic Aspects and Stoichiometry of Hydrogen Sulfide Formation... 

As far as organic matter transformations are concerned, the process rates are significantly slower compared with aerobic transformations. Basically, readily biodegradable organic matter is preserved and even, to some extent, produced opposite to the situation when aerobic processes proceed. The sulfur cycle, until now included in the sewer process model, is relatively simply described following empirical expressions for sulfide formation. Other important processes in this respect, e.g., hydrogen sulfide emission and sulfide oxidation, still need to be included, however, and, most of all, investigated from a conceptual point of view. 

The produced fluids and gases are typically directed into separation vessels. Under the influence of gravity, pressure, heat, retention times, and sometimes electrical fields, separation of the various phases of gas, oil, and water occurs so that they can be drawn off in separate streams. Suspended solids such as sediment and salt will also be removed. Deadly hydrogen sulfide (H2S), is sometimes also encountered, which is extracted simultaneously with the petroleum production. Crude oil containing H2S can be shipped by pipeline and used as a refinery feed but it is undesirable for tanker or long pipeline transport. The normal commercial concentration of impurities in crude oil sales is usually less than 0.5% BS W (Basic Sediment and Water) and 10 Ptb (Pounds of salt per 1,000 barrels of oil). The produced liquids and gases are then transported to a gas plant or refinery by truck, railroad tank car, ship, or pipeline. Large oil field areas normally have direct outlets to major, common-carrier pipelines. 

By far most of the reports on addition reactions of hetero-nucleophiles to activated dienes deal with sulfur-nucleophiles17,48,80,120-137, in particular in the synthesis of 7/3-sulfur-substituted steroids which, like their carbon-substituted counterparts (Section n.A), are of interest because of their ability to inhibit the biosynthesis of estrogens80,129-137. Early investigations17,120-122 concentrated on simple acyclic Michael acceptors like methyl sorbate and 2,4-pentadienenitrile. Bravo and coworkers120 observed the formation of a 3 1 mixture of the 1,6- and 1,4-adduct in the reaction of methyl sorbate with methanethiol in basic medium (equation 39). In contrast to this, 2,4-pentadienenitrile adds various thiols regioselectively at C-5, i.e. in a 1,6-fashion (equation 40)17,121,122, and the same is true for reactions of this substrate with hydrogen sulfide (equation 41), sodium bisulfite and ethyl thioglycolate17. 

Since the main intent in synthesizing our materials was the development of new versatile adsorbents capable of effectively removing either acidic or basic TICs at ambient conditions, the dynamic breakthrough experiments were carried out at ambient conditions. The details of the homemade experimental setup are presented in [42-44]. Ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and nitrogen dioxide were our target TICs. 

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