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Wet scrubber is a form of pollution control technology. The term describes a variety of devices that use pollutants from a furnace flue gas or from other gas streams. In a wet scrubber, the polluted gas stream is brought into contact with the scrubbing liquid, by spraying it with the liquid, by forcing it through a pool of liquid, or by some other contact method, so as to remove the pollutants.

The design of wet scrubbers or any air pollution control device depends on the industrial process conditions and the nature of the air pollutants involved.

Inlet gas characteristics and dust properties (if particulate are present) are of primary importance. Scrubbers can be designed to collect particulate matter and/or gaseous pollutants. Wet scrubbers remove dust particles by capturing them in liquid droplets. Wet scrubbers remove pollutant gases by dissolving or absorbing them into the liquid.

Any droplets that are in the scrubber inlet gas must be separated from the outlet gas stream by means of another device referred to as a Entrainment (engineering) eliminator or Entrainment (engineering) separator (these terms are interchangeable). Also, the resultant scrubbing liquid must be treated prior to any ultimate discharge or being reused in the plant.

There are numerous configurations of scrubbers and scrubbing systems, all designed to provide good contact between the liquid and polluted gas stream.

Figures 1 and 2 show two examples of wet scrubber designs, including their mist eliminators.Figure 1 is a venturi scrubber design. The mist eliminator for a venturi scrubber is often a separate device called a cyclonic separator. Figure 2 has a tower design where the mist eliminator is built into the top of the structure. Various tower designs exist.

A wet scrubber's ability to collect small particles is often directly proportional to the power input into the scrubber. Low energy devices such as spray towers are used to collect particles larger than 5 micrometers. To obtain high efficiency removal of 1 micrometer (or less) particles generally requires high energy devices such as venturi scrubbers or augmented devices such as condensation scrubbers. Additionally, a properly designed and operated entrainment separator or mist eliminator is important to achieve high removal efficiencies. The greater the number of liquid droplets that are not captured by the mist eliminator the higher the potential emission levels.

Wet scrubbers that remove gaseous pollutants are referred to as absorbers. Good Liquid-to-gas ratio is essential to obtain high removal efficiencies in absorbers. A number of wet scrubber designs are used to remove gaseous pollutants, with the packed bed and the theoretical plate tower being the most common.

If the gas stream contains both particle matter and gases, wet scrubbers are generally the only single air pollution control device that can remove both pollutants. Wet scrubbers can achieve high removal efficiencies for either particles or gases and, in some instances, can achieve a high removal efficiency for both pollutants in the same system. However, in many cases, the best operating conditions for particles collection are the poorest for gas removal.

In general, obtaining high simultaneous gas and particulate removal efficiencies requires that one of them be easily collected (i.e., that the gases are very soluble in the liquid or that the particles are large and readily captured) or by the use of a scrubbing reagent such as lime or sodium hydroxide.

Advantages and disadvantages For particulate control, wet scrubbers (also referred to as wet collectors) are evaluated against fabric filters and electrostatic precipitators (ESPs). Some advantages of wet scrubbers over these devices are as follows:

• Wet scrubbers have the ability to handle high temperatures and moisture.
• In wet scrubbers, the inlet gases are cooled, resulting in smaller overall size of equipment.
• Wet scrubbers can remove both gases and particulate matter.
• Wet scrubbers can neutralize corrosion gases.

Some disadvantages of wet scrubbers include corrosion, the need for entrainment separation or mist removal to obtain high efficiencies and the need for treatment or reuse of spent liquid.

Table 1 summarizes these advantages and disadvantages. Wet scrubbers have been used in a variety of industries such as acid plants, fertilizer plants, steel mills, asphalt plants, and large power plants.

{| class="wikitable" align="center" width="550px" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"|-! colspan="2" style="height:50px; align:center" | Table 1. Relative advantages and disadvantages of wet scrubbers compared to other control devices|-| align="center" | Advantages| align="center" | Disadvantages|-| align="left" width="50%" valign="top" | Small space requirements
Scrubbers reduce the temperature and volume of the unsaturated exhaust stream. Therefore, vessel sizes, including fans and ducts downstream, are smaller than those of other control devices. Smaller sizes result in lower capital costs and more flexibility in site location of the scrubber.
No secondary dust sources
Once particulate matter is collected, it cannot escape from hoppers or during transport.
Handles high-temperature, high-humidity gas streams
No temperature limits or condensation problems can occur as in baghouses or ESPs.
Minimal fire and explosion hazards
Various dry dusts are flammable. Using water eliminates the possibility of explosions.
Ability to collect both gases and particulate matter| align="left" width="50%" valign="top" | Corrosion problems
Water and dissolved pollutants can form highly corrosive acid solutions. Proper construction materials are very important. Also, wet-dryinterface areas can result in corrosion.
High power requirements
High collection efficiencies for particulate matter are attainable only at high pressure drops, resulting in high operating costs.
Water-disposal problems
Settling ponds or sludge clarifiers may be needed to meet waste-water regulations.
Difficult product recovery
Dewatering and drying of scrubber sludge make recovery of any dust for reuse very expensive and difficult.
Meteorological problems
The saturated exhaust gases can produce a wet, visible steam plume. Fog and precipitation from the plume may cause local meteorological problems.|}

Wet scrubber systems Wet scrubber systems generally consist of the following components:

• Ductwork and fan system
• A saturation chamber (optional)
• Scrubbing vessel
• Entrainment separator or mist eliminator
• Pumping (and possible recycle system)
• Spent scrubbing liquid treatment and/or reuse system
• An exhaust stack

A typical wet scrubbing process can be described as follows:

• Hot flue gas from a furnace enters a saturator (if present) where gases are cooled and humidified prior to entering the scrubbing area. The saturator removes a small percentage of the particulate matter present in the flue gas.
• Next, the gas enters a venturi scrubber where approximately half of the gases are removed. Venturi scrubbers have a minimum particle removal efficiency of 95%.
• The gas flows through a second scrubber, a packed bed, where the rest of the gases (and particulate matter) are collected.
• A entrainment separator or mist eliminator removes any liquid droplets that may have become entrained in the flue gas.
• A recirculation pump moves some of the spent scrubbing liquid back to the venturi scrubber where it is recycled and the remainder is sent to a wastewater treatment.
• Treated scrubbing liquid is recycled back to the saturator and the packed bed.
• Fans and ductwork move the flue gas stream through the system and eventually out the stack.

Categorization of wet scrubbers Since wet scrubbers vary greatly in complexity and method of operation, devising categories into which all of them neatly fit is extremely difficult. Scrubbers for particle collection are usually categorized by the gas-side pressure drop of the system. Gas-side pressure drop refers to the pressure difference, or pressure drop, that occurs as the exhaust gas is pushed or pulled through the scrubber, disregarding the pressure that would be used for pumping or spraying the liquid into the scrubber.

Scrubbers may be classified by pressure drop as follows:

• Low-energy scrubbers have pressure drops of less than 12.7 cm (5 in) of water.
• Medium-energy scrubbers have pressure drops between 12.7 and 38.1 cm (5 and 15 in) of water.
• High-energy scrubbers have pressure drops greater than 38.1 cm (15 in) of water.

However, most scrubbers operate over a wide range of pressure drops, depending on their specific application, thereby making this type of categorization difficult.

Another way to classify wet scrubbers is by their use - to primarily collect either particulates or gaseous pollutants. Again, this distinction is not always clear since scrubbers can often be used to remove both types of pollutants.

Wet scrubbers can also be categorized by the manner in which the gas and liquid phases are brought into contact. Scrubbers are designed to use power, or energy, from the gas stream or the liquid stream, or some other method to bring the pollutant gas stream into contact with the liquid. These categories are given in Table 2. US EPA Air Pollution Training Institute developed in collaboration with North Carolina State University, College of Engineering (NCSU)

{| class="wikitable" style="width:550px; align:center; cellpadding:2; cellspacing:1"|-! colspan="2" style="height:50px; align:center" | Table 2. Categories of wet collectors by energy source used for contact|-| align="center" | Wet collector| align="center" | Energy source used for gas-liquid contact|-| align="left" width="50%" valign="top" | Gas-phase contacting
Liquid-phase contacting
Wet film
Combination

• Liquid phase and gas phase
• Mechanically aided

| align="left" width="50%" valign="top" | Gas stream
Liquid stream
Liquid and gas streams
Energy source:

• Liquid and gas streams
• Mechanically driven rotor

|}



Bibliography

• Bethea, R. M. 1978. Air Pollution Control Technology. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
• Perry, J. H. (Ed.). 1973. Chemical Engineers’ Handbook. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Richards, J. R. 1995. Control of Particulate Emissions (APTI Course 413). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Richards, J. R. 1995. Control of Gaseous Emissions. (APTI Course 415). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Semrau, K. T. 1977. Practical process design of particulate scrubbers. Chemical Engineering. 84:87-91.

References

Wet scrubber is a form of pollution control technology. The term describes a variety of devices that use pollutants from a furnace flue gas or from other gas streams. In a wet scrubber, the polluted gas stream is brought into contact with the scrubbing liquid, by spraying it with the liquid, by forcing it through a pool of liquid, or by some other contact method, so as to remove the pollutants.

The design of wet scrubbers or any air pollution control device depends on the industrial process conditions and the nature of the air pollutants involved.

Inlet gas characteristics and dust properties (if particulate are present) are of primary importance. Scrubbers can be designed to collect particulate matter and/or gaseous pollutants. Wet scrubbers remove dust particles by capturing them in liquid droplets. Wet scrubbers remove pollutant gases by dissolving or absorbing them into the liquid.

Any droplets that are in the scrubber inlet gas must be separated from the outlet gas stream by means of another device referred to as a Entrainment (engineering) eliminator or Entrainment (engineering) separator (these terms are interchangeable). Also, the resultant scrubbing liquid must be treated prior to any ultimate discharge or being reused in the plant.

There are numerous configurations of scrubbers and scrubbing systems, all designed to provide good contact between the liquid and polluted gas stream.

Figures 1 and 2 show two examples of wet scrubber designs, including their mist eliminators.Figure 1 is a venturi scrubber design. The mist eliminator for a venturi scrubber is often a separate device called a cyclonic separator. Figure 2 has a tower design where the mist eliminator is built into the top of the structure. Various tower designs exist.

A wet scrubber's ability to collect small particles is often directly proportional to the power input into the scrubber. Low energy devices such as spray towers are used to collect particles larger than 5 micrometers. To obtain high efficiency removal of 1 micrometer (or less) particles generally requires high energy devices such as venturi scrubbers or augmented devices such as condensation scrubbers. Additionally, a properly designed and operated entrainment separator or mist eliminator is important to achieve high removal efficiencies. The greater the number of liquid droplets that are not captured by the mist eliminator the higher the potential emission levels.

Wet scrubbers that remove gaseous pollutants are referred to as absorbers. Good Liquid-to-gas ratio is essential to obtain high removal efficiencies in absorbers. A number of wet scrubber designs are used to remove gaseous pollutants, with the packed bed and the theoretical plate tower being the most common.

If the gas stream contains both particle matter and gases, wet scrubbers are generally the only single air pollution control device that can remove both pollutants. Wet scrubbers can achieve high removal efficiencies for either particles or gases and, in some instances, can achieve a high removal efficiency for both pollutants in the same system. However, in many cases, the best operating conditions for particles collection are the poorest for gas removal.

In general, obtaining high simultaneous gas and particulate removal efficiencies requires that one of them be easily collected (i.e., that the gases are very soluble in the liquid or that the particles are large and readily captured) or by the use of a scrubbing reagent such as lime or sodium hydroxide.

Advantages and disadvantages For particulate control, wet scrubbers (also referred to as wet collectors) are evaluated against fabric filters and electrostatic precipitators (ESPs). Some advantages of wet scrubbers over these devices are as follows:

• Wet scrubbers have the ability to handle high temperatures and moisture.
• In wet scrubbers, the inlet gases are cooled, resulting in smaller overall size of equipment.
• Wet scrubbers can remove both gases and particulate matter.
• Wet scrubbers can neutralize corrosion gases.

Some disadvantages of wet scrubbers include corrosion, the need for entrainment separation or mist removal to obtain high efficiencies and the need for treatment or reuse of spent liquid.

Table 1 summarizes these advantages and disadvantages. Wet scrubbers have been used in a variety of industries such as acid plants, fertilizer plants, steel mills, asphalt plants, and large power plants.

{| class="wikitable" align="center" width="550px" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"|-! colspan="2" style="height:50px; align:center" | Table 1. Relative advantages and disadvantages of wet scrubbers compared to other control devices|-| align="center" | Advantages| align="center" | Disadvantages|-| align="left" width="50%" valign="top" | Small space requirements
Scrubbers reduce the temperature and volume of the unsaturated exhaust stream. Therefore, vessel sizes, including fans and ducts downstream, are smaller than those of other control devices. Smaller sizes result in lower capital costs and more flexibility in site location of the scrubber.
No secondary dust sources
Once particulate matter is collected, it cannot escape from hoppers or during transport.
Handles high-temperature, high-humidity gas streams
No temperature limits or condensation problems can occur as in baghouses or ESPs.
Minimal fire and explosion hazards
Various dry dusts are flammable. Using water eliminates the possibility of explosions.
Ability to collect both gases and particulate matter| align="left" width="50%" valign="top" | Corrosion problems
Water and dissolved pollutants can form highly corrosive acid solutions. Proper construction materials are very important. Also, wet-dryinterface areas can result in corrosion.
High power requirements
High collection efficiencies for particulate matter are attainable only at high pressure drops, resulting in high operating costs.
Water-disposal problems
Settling ponds or sludge clarifiers may be needed to meet waste-water regulations.
Difficult product recovery
Dewatering and drying of scrubber sludge make recovery of any dust for reuse very expensive and difficult.
Meteorological problems
The saturated exhaust gases can produce a wet, visible steam plume. Fog and precipitation from the plume may cause local meteorological problems.|}

Wet scrubber systems Wet scrubber systems generally consist of the following components:

• Ductwork and fan system
• A saturation chamber (optional)
• Scrubbing vessel
• Entrainment separator or mist eliminator
• Pumping (and possible recycle system)
• Spent scrubbing liquid treatment and/or reuse system
• An exhaust stack

A typical wet scrubbing process can be described as follows:

• Hot flue gas from a furnace enters a saturator (if present) where gases are cooled and humidified prior to entering the scrubbing area. The saturator removes a small percentage of the particulate matter present in the flue gas.
• Next, the gas enters a venturi scrubber where approximately half of the gases are removed. Venturi scrubbers have a minimum particle removal efficiency of 95%.
• The gas flows through a second scrubber, a packed bed, where the rest of the gases (and particulate matter) are collected.
• A entrainment separator or mist eliminator removes any liquid droplets that may have become entrained in the flue gas.
• A recirculation pump moves some of the spent scrubbing liquid back to the venturi scrubber where it is recycled and the remainder is sent to a wastewater treatment.
• Treated scrubbing liquid is recycled back to the saturator and the packed bed.
• Fans and ductwork move the flue gas stream through the system and eventually out the stack.

Categorization of wet scrubbers Since wet scrubbers vary greatly in complexity and method of operation, devising categories into which all of them neatly fit is extremely difficult. Scrubbers for particle collection are usually categorized by the gas-side pressure drop of the system. Gas-side pressure drop refers to the pressure difference, or pressure drop, that occurs as the exhaust gas is pushed or pulled through the scrubber, disregarding the pressure that would be used for pumping or spraying the liquid into the scrubber.

Scrubbers may be classified by pressure drop as follows:

• Low-energy scrubbers have pressure drops of less than 12.7 cm (5 in) of water.
• Medium-energy scrubbers have pressure drops between 12.7 and 38.1 cm (5 and 15 in) of water.
• High-energy scrubbers have pressure drops greater than 38.1 cm (15 in) of water.

However, most scrubbers operate over a wide range of pressure drops, depending on their specific application, thereby making this type of categorization difficult.

Another way to classify wet scrubbers is by their use - to primarily collect either particulates or gaseous pollutants. Again, this distinction is not always clear since scrubbers can often be used to remove both types of pollutants.

Wet scrubbers can also be categorized by the manner in which the gas and liquid phases are brought into contact. Scrubbers are designed to use power, or energy, from the gas stream or the liquid stream, or some other method to bring the pollutant gas stream into contact with the liquid. These categories are given in Table 2. US EPA Air Pollution Training Institute developed in collaboration with North Carolina State University, College of Engineering (NCSU)

{| class="wikitable" style="width:550px; align:center; cellpadding:2; cellspacing:1"|-! colspan="2" style="height:50px; align:center" | Table 2. Categories of wet collectors by energy source used for contact|-| align="center" | Wet collector| align="center" | Energy source used for gas-liquid contact|-| align="left" width="50%" valign="top" | Gas-phase contacting
Liquid-phase contacting
Wet film
Combination

• Liquid phase and gas phase
• Mechanically aided

| align="left" width="50%" valign="top" | Gas stream
Liquid stream
Liquid and gas streams
Energy source:

• Liquid and gas streams
• Mechanically driven rotor

|}



Bibliography

• Bethea, R. M. 1978. Air Pollution Control Technology. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
• Perry, J. H. (Ed.). 1973. Chemical Engineers’ Handbook. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Richards, J. R. 1995. Control of Particulate Emissions (APTI Course 413). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Richards, J. R. 1995. Control of Gaseous Emissions. (APTI Course 415). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Semrau, K. T. 1977. Practical process design of particulate scrubbers. Chemical Engineering. 84:87-91.

References

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