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Despite tangible progress in the development of alternative power sources, even in the 21st century, our civilization cannot completely abandon the consumption of hydrocarbons.
Fortunately, the gas and air purification industry is keeping up with the times, and today highly efficient exhaust scrubbers, fume absorbers and smoke extraction systems are available on the market.
Coal, fuel oil, diesel, gasoline, kerosene – this is not the whole list of hydrocarbon fuels, whose consumption exceeds 10 million kilograms per minute.
Smoke extraction system after medical waste incineration (produced at PZGO LLC, Russia)
Within this page, the main sources of waste / exhaust emissions (fumes, vapors, aerosol and dust) will be reviewed, as well as methods and equipment for their industrial-scale capture, removal and neutralization.
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Before turning directly to industrial fume extraction systems, smoke absorbers and exhaust scrubbers, we have to justify the strict need for their use in the field of deactivating harmful emissions generated by power plants (steam generators), incinerators, steel mills (furnaces), oil and gas companies, and, of course, cars.
In general, the exhausts come into existence because the feedstock is not combusted completely. As a result, the flue gases contain a whole bunch of compounds of varying degrees of danger.
The table below lists the main pollutants present in flue emissions. All of the elements and compounds listed below, as well as many others can be effectively captured or neutralized by means of advanced air-cleaning / exhaust extraction systems manufactured at PZGO LLC.
Pollutant / Element / Compound | Negative impact | Danger rating |
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) | 10 times more dangerous than carbon monoxide, and dramatically affect all living organisms | ★★★★★ |
Sulfur dioxide (SOx) | in contact with body fluids sulphur oxide is converted into sulfuric acid, which causes dramatic damage to all living cells | ★★★★☆ |
Carbon monoxide | binds to hemoglobin and stops the oxygen supply of cells | ★★★☆☆ |
Benzpyrene | replaces parts of the DNA chains, which leads to serious mutations during cell replication | ★★★★★ |
Cadmium and mercury | cumulative poisons that can accumulate in the body. The biological hazard of these components, contained in small quantities in smoke emissions, is a negative impact on life-critical sulfur-containing enzymes and amino acids | ★★★★★ |
Hydrochloric acid / Hydrogen chloride | an extremely dangerous compound that causes burns of the skin. Acids are usually present in smokes in the form of a fine aerosol mixed with water vapor | ★★★★☆ |
Hydrogen sulfide H2S | one of the most dangerous sulfur-containing compounds, causing pulmonary edema, convulsions, nerve paralysis and coma / death. The danger of hydrogen sulfide this gas is that it paralyzes the olfactory nerves, and the person stops feeling the smell of H2S while continuing to inhale extremely dangerous poison | ★★★☆☆ |
Anthracene | a poison and a carcinogen that negatively affects the skin, to the extent of pigmentation and keratinization of the skin integument | ★★☆☆☆ |
Aldehydes | strong neurotoxins that can accumulate in the body indefinitely, causing irreversible damage to the brain and the nervous system | ★★★★☆ |
Paraffins, olefins, naphthenes and aromatic hydrocarbons | capable of oxidizing to extremely hazardous oxygen-containing compounds | ★★☆☆☆ |
Microscopic particles of soot and ash | contaminate the pulmonary surfactant and interfere with normal lung function | ★☆☆☆☆ |
Despite the fact that the properties of separate components of the exhaust gases are studied sufficiently, due to the high chemical activity of smoke components, it is often impossible to precisely predict the exact composition and properties of the resulting gaseous compounds.
Stationary smoke emissions are regulated by the Standards Catalogue ISO 13.040.40.
During the thermal decomposition of solid household waste / SMW, the spectrum of gaseous pollutants may include even more dangerous chemical combinations and pure elements: heavy metals, ketones, alkaline and acid fumes, alcohols, esters, amines, and many other components hazardous to human health and environment.
Fluidized bed exhaust absorber for the complex capture of gaseous and mechanical pollutants from an asphalt plant
Thus, equipment for cleaning waste gases / smoke emissions must be able to simultaneously capture all harmful gaseous substances, as well as mechanical dust in the form of microdisperse soot, ash and slag particles.
Exhaust arrester and industrial dust extractors in most cases are vertical columns. Vertical orientation greatly simplifies the movement of contaminated flow through the tower, and, thus, reduces the materials consumption and the cost of apparatus.
The heart of the industrial air scrubber is a working chamber filled with a movable bed. The fluid bed itself is an array of hollow, thin-walled polypropylene balls that can easily change their position relative to each other (under the pressure of the gas-mechanical phase).
This demo stand vividly depicts the movement / floating of the ball-type filling inside the working chamber of the filter
The difference between fume scrubbers and absorbers in this particular case is formal and depends on the technical conditions in which the device operates. So, if a fluidized bed apparatus processes a gas stream that is heavily polluted by mechanical inclusions, then it can be called a scrubber. If the same apparatus is used to a greater extent to neutralize chemical pollutants in the stream, it can be called an absorber.
The ability of the bed to float is ensured by the state of balance of opposing forces.
The working reagent of the smoke absorber can be selected in such a way that an economically valuable product is formed as sludge / pulp. For example, the use of an aqueous solution of lime to trap sulfur dioxide makes it possible to obtain a solution of artificial high-purity gypsum as slurry.
The working chamber of the smoke extractor may be lined with heat- and acid-resistant material.
It should be noted that scrubbers and absorbers can function not only as independent devices, but also as gas cleaning stages in multistage air treatment facilities.
Multi-stage scrubber-based smoke absorption plant
This feature is especially needed when it is necessary to clean the complex and hot polluted smoke stream.
At each stage, it is possible to obtain an ecologically-safe, (and sometimes valuable) residua. Desorption of the adsorbent allows to obtain chemical compounds and chemical elements of the highest degree of purity.
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If necessary, local commissioning of the equipment is possible, as well as training of your staff.
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