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AshenLight on February 8, 2009 - 4:32am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

As a biologist that works with H2S, I have to wonder if there's an economical way to use microbes to remove it from the gas. There are many different sulfide oxidation pathways that yield different end products (not just elemental S but polysulfides, thiosulfate, polythionates, etc.) which are less toxic and potentially easier to remove.

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ROCKMAN on February 8, 2009 - 6:22pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Maybe Ashen but I suspect scalabilty and the time factor might be the difficulty with such an approach. A few thousand cf per day perhaps but 25 million cf per day is a lot to deal with. The NG has to be processed right then and quickly. No way to store any appreciable amount of NG in a gaseous state in an offshore environment.

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