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http://dx.doi.org/10.7464/ksct.2015.21.3.191

Computational Analysis on the Control of Droplet Entrained in the Exhaust from the Spray Type Scrubber system  

Lee, Chanhyun (Department of Environmental Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Chang, Hyuksang (Department of Environmental Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Koo, Seongmo (Department of Environmental Engineering, Yeungnam University)
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Clean Technology / v.21, no.3, 2015 , pp. 191-199 More about this Journal
Abstract
The SOx emission from the ship diesel engines will do a negative influence to the human health and the environment. To reduce the negative environmental effect of the SOx emission caused by the high traffic of ship movements, the SECA (SOx emission control area) has been set on several province around world to carry out the severe emissions control and to meet the emissions control standard. To cut down the SOx emission from the ships, the wet type scrubber is being used widely. In this work, we prepared a numerical model to simulate the spray type scrubber to study the motion of liquid droplets in the flow of the scrubber. For the analysis, the CFD (computational fluid dynamics) method was adopted. As a special topic of the study, we designed the wave plate type of mist eliminator to check the carry over of the uncontrolled water droplet to the exhaust. Numerical analysis is divided into two stages. At the first stage, the analysis was done on the basic scrubber without the mist eliminator, and then the second stage of analysis was done on the scrubber with the mist eliminator on several condition to check and compare with the basic scrubber. On the condition of the basic scrubber, 42.0% of the distributed water droplets were carried over to the exhaust. But by adding the designed droplet eliminator at the exhaust of the scrubber, only 3.4% of the distributed water droplets supplied to the scrubber was emitted to the atmosphere.
Keywords
Spray type Scrubber; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Mist eliminator;
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