>99.5% purity
Typical purified bromine product for process reuse.
Bromine Recovery Plants
Recovery and purification plants producing reusable bromine from industrial HBr, sodium-bromide, potassium-bromide and aqueous waste streams.
UD Technologies · Vadodara, India
Industrial bromide recovery
Turn bromide-bearing process streams back into reusable bromine.
Bromination reactions can leave a substantial share of the original bromine as hydrogen bromide or dissolved sodium and potassium bromides. A recovery plant converts these aqueous streams back into elemental bromine, reducing raw-material loss and the bromide load sent to waste treatment.
Chlorine oxidises the bromide feed in a glass reaction and stripping column. Live steam strips liberated bromine and excess chlorine, glass heat exchangers condense the vapour, and a purification column distils the crude bromine. Organic contamination can be removed in a feed pretreatment stage before recovery.
Multiple feeds
Recover from HBr, NaBr, KBr and aqueous waste.
Material recovery
Reduce bromine purchase and waste-treatment demand.
Custom pretreatment
Condition feeds containing process organics.
Salient features
A complete oxidation, stripping and purification process.
The final equipment arrangement, materials and controls are selected around the process duty and site conditions.
Reactive stripping
Chlorine oxidation and live steam release bromine from aqueous bromides.
Staged condensation
Cooling and chilling exchangers condense bromine-rich overhead vapour.
Phase separation
A glass separator divides condensed bromine from the aqueous phase.
Bromine purification
Reboiling and fractional distillation raise crude bromine to reuse quality.
Corrosion-resistant plant
Glass and compatible materials are applied throughout the aggressive service.
Automation options
PLC control and application-specific instrumentation can be integrated.
System configuration
Follow the bromine recovery process from feed to product.
The plant is engineered as one coordinated system, with pretreatment and final drying added where the feed and product specification require them.
Industrial bromide recovery plant
Reactive stripping and bromine purification
Process sequence
- Feed
- HBr, NaBr, KBr or another aqueous bromide stream
- Reaction
- Chlorine oxidation in a glass stripping column
- Stripping medium
- Live steam
- Condensation
- Cooling and chilling glass heat exchangers
- Purification
- Reboiler, distillation column and condensers
- Typical purity
- Better than 99.5% bromine
Principal equipment
- Upstream
- Optional organic-impurity pretreatment
- Separation
- Glass phase separator
- Overhead
- Pure-product and vent guard condensers
- Product handling
- Bromine cooler and crude/pure receivers
- Options
- Dry bromine system, PLC and custom materials
Related system
Recover bromine directly from sea bittern.
For salt-field brines, the sea-bittern production plant is engineered around variable natural feed concentration and hot reactive stripping.
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