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http://dx.doi.org/10.5572/KOSAE.2010.26.3.339

Collection Efficiency Enhancement of Spray Tower Scrubber by Introducing Electrospray with Two-flow Nozzle  

Hwang, You-Seong (Department of Environmental Engineering, Hanseo University)
Kim, Jong-Ho (Department of Environmental Engineering, Hanseo University)
Kim, Jong-Hyeon (Department of Environmental Engineering, Hanseo University)
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Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment / v.26, no.3, 2010 , pp. 339-345 More about this Journal
Abstract
There have been a number of efforts to satisfy national emission regulations and reduce the amount of emitted air pollutants. There are several air pollution control devices, however, only wet scrubber is efficiently used to remove particulate matters and gaseous pollutants, even if it has minimum collection efficiency in the particle size range of $0.1{\sim}1{\mu}m$. This study aimed to improve the collection efficiency of a spray tower type scrubber by introducing an electrospray system with two-flow nozzle. We found that the collection efficiency of a spray tower type scrubber was similar to that of a conventional wet scrubber. However, installation of an electrospray system in the scrubber resulted in drastic further improvement of collection efficiency comparing to that of a conventional scrubber, which is 26%, 35.2%, and 45.1% at the liquid to gas ratio of 0.26 $L/m^3$ and 19.9%, 35.1%, and 42.5% at 0.34 $L/m^3$ for the applied voltage of -30 kV, -35 kV, and -40 kV, respectively. Therefore, we found that the introduction of an electrospray system is very effective to improve the collection efficiency of a spray tower type scrubber.
Keywords
Electrospray; Two-flow nozzle; Spray tower type scrubber; Collection efficiency;
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