Crystallization
Last month, Comprimo — the sulfur technology business of Worley (North Sydney, Australia; www.worley.com) — acquired the rights to license the Eutectic Freeze Crystallization (EFC) technology from Cool Separations B.V. (Poortugaal, the Netherlands; www.coolseparations.nl). When an EFC unit is combined with Comprimo’s desulfurization technologies (SuperClaus or EuroClaus with a caustic scrubber), this process eliminates gaseous and liquid sulfur emissions from the scrubber effluent and provides clean reusable water. In addition to treating this highly contaminated effluent to recover water, the process also produces sellable salt, which can be used as a potential raw material for fertilizer industries.