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http://dx.doi.org/10.7464/ksct.2019.25.1.019

The Numerical Study on Effect of the Droplet Sizes on Internal Mass Transfer in the Spray Type Scrubber  

Lee, Chanhyun (Department of Environmental Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Chang, Hyuksang (Department of Environmental Engineering, Yeungnam University)
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Clean Technology / v.25, no.1, 2019 , pp. 19-32 More about this Journal
Abstract
As regional air pollution gets worse by the sulfur oxides emitted from various types of vessels passing through the many countries, the International Maritime Organization establishes the emission control areas and regulates sulfur dioxide in those areas. In order to satisfy these regional regulations, the fuel selection method and the exhaust gas post-treatment device are applied to the ships. Due to the economic reasons, the post-treatment method of exhaust gas for reducing the amount of sulfur oxides discharged is mainly preferred. The scrubber which is dominantly used in the ships are the spray type system where the sprayed liquid drops used for capturing the soluble sulfur dioxides in the exhaust gas. The performance of the spray type system depends on the size distribution of the sprayed droplets. In order to evaluate this performance, we designed counterflow type scrubber and cyclone scrubber and evaluated the desulfurization efficiency and the amount of droplet evaporation according to the size of each droplet by using computational fluid dynamics. The Eulerian-Eulerian analysis method was used because the scrubber had a gas-liquid two-phase flow inside the scrubber. When the diameter of the droplet was $100{\mu}m$, $300{\mu}m$, $500{\mu}m$ and $700{\mu}m$. As a result, both of scrubbers showed high desulfurization efficiency and low evaporation amount at $500{\mu}m$ and $700{\mu}m$.
Keywords
Droplets; Eulerian-eulerian; Scubberm; Computational fluid dynamics;
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