Abstract:
The sweetening of natural gasoline liquid fractions employing molecular sieve type adsorbents to selectively adsorb the sulfur compound impurities is accomplished using a minimum of nonsorbable purge gas for regeneration purposes. The process comprises using a low boiling condensable paraffin to purge the sulfur compounds from the principal adsorption bed, condensing said paraffin, purifying same in the liquid phase by passage through a large pore molecular sieve bed, and thereafter removing the sulfur compounds from the latter bed with a non-sorbable purge gas.