I want to develop an acid process for removing HCN and (CN)2 from gas effluent.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/j150381a002
"The Reaction of Hydrogen Cyanide with Sulfuric and Phosphoric Acids"
Alan W. Cobb , James H. Walton
J. Phys. Chem., 1937, 41 (3), pp 351–363
DOI: 10.1021/j150381a002
Publication Date: March 1937
Citation offers reaction with aqueous sulfuric acid to form carbamic acid:
H2O + HCN.H2SO4 -> HCOONH2 + H2SO4
I'm not a chemical engineer, so in return, I'd like for you to tell me how this would be implemented in an industrial-scale environment. Thanks!
Thanks Chris!
It is usually treated in an absorption tower with chemical reaction, better known as "wet scrubber" with NaOH or other alcaline material. My problem is that my effluent contains a lot of CO2 wich would consume huge amounts of alcaline solution. I'm thinking of using same process, but with acid hydrolysis that would not absorbe CO2.
Do you have access to this article? If you do, could you send it to me?
A little nomenclature correction: HCOONH2 is formamide (amide of formic acid); carbamic acid is NH2COOH (amide of carbonic acid).
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