Experimental Study of the Removal of Fine Particulate Matter and Moisture from Flue Gas

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  • 1. CAS Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy and Power, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Beijing 100190, China
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Online published: 2023-11-26

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This work was supported by a National Science and Technology Major Project (No. 2017-I-0009-0010).

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Science Press, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2023

Abstract

Liquid desiccant systems are promising methods to recover water and waste heat simultaneously from flue gas. Prior research found that the reduction of particulate matter could occur during the absorption processes. In the present paper, experiments were carried out to explore the effect of removing fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in a liquid desiccant dehumidifier. Aqueous calcium chloride (CaCl2) was used as the desiccant in the experiments. The discrepancies in mass and energy conservation were within ±10% and ±15%, respectively, which showed the good reliability of the experimental results. Additionally, 23.5%–46.0% of the PM2.5 and 23.9%–45.1% of the moisture in the flue gas were removed. By comparing the desiccant solution and water, it was found that they could minimally remove PM2.5 through washing the flue gas. Regardless of whether the flue gas was dehumidified by water or the solution, the removal fractions of PM2.5 of these two methods could be very close if they achieve the same fraction of moisture removal. From the results of a parameter analysis, it was found that the removal fraction of PM2.5 was nearly proportional to the removal fraction of moisture within the experimental range.

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ZHENG Xin, LU Yuan, WANG Bo, ZHAO Lifeng . Experimental Study of the Removal of Fine Particulate Matter and Moisture from Flue Gas[J]. Journal of Thermal Science, 2023 , 32(6) : 2273 -2283 . DOI: 10.1007/s11630-023-1847-2

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