Sour Water Stripper Literature

[Peasea]

I am designing a sour water stripper. The literature available in this area is pretty thin. Can some one tell me more about the availability of literature in this area especially those related to real life operating experiences and troubleshooting?

PeaSea

 

[mbeychok]

Peasea:

Bryan Research & Engineering has a simulation program named TSweet which includes sour water strippers and is excellent. Their website is at www.bre.com

AspenTech's Hysis simulation program also includes sour water stripping. Their website is at www.aspentech.com

Now, if you want to go way back to the earliest literature on designing sour water strippers (if you have access to a very good university library):

(1) "Design of Sour Water Strippers" published in "Proceedings of the Seventh World Petroleum Congress", Mexico City, April 1967

(2) "Aqueous Wastes From Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants", published by John Wiley and Sons, New York and London, 1967

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has also published some surveys (in about the 1970's and 1980's) about materials of construction and other aspects of sour water strippers. Try contacting their library.

Milton Beychok
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