Noxso Corporation

John L Haslbeck

Lewis G Neal

Hsiaopin Tseng

Warren Tzu Ma

Scott M Harkins

James Brown Black, Iii

Carroll H Sherman

Process and apparatus which increase the concentration of NO.sub.x in an off-gas stream of heated air carrying NO.sub.x removed or desorbed from sorbent, feed the off-gas stream into NO.sub.x reduction apparatus, or to nitrogen by-product producing apparatus, and maintain the volume of the off-gas stream substantially constant as the NO.sub.x concentration is being increased.

Closed loop no.sub.x reduction

Processes and apparatus for removing acid gases from hot flue gases utilizing a slurry consisting of water, calcium chloride and at least one absorbing agent selected from a group consisting of calcium oxides, magnesium oxides, calcium hydroxides, magnesium hydroxides, alkali metal oxides, alkali metal hydroxides, and alkali metal carbonates, introducing the slurry into the rising stream of hot flue gas to absorb the acid gas into the water and thereafter to react the absorbed acid gas with the absorption agent and thereafter to evaporate the water to produce dry solids comprising reaction products and unreacted absorption agents suspended in the flue gas. The calcium chloride reduces the water vapor pressure of the slurry to reduce the rate at which the water evaporates so as to increase the rate at which the acid gas is absorbed into the water before the water evaporates. The dry solids include relatively large, relatively small, and intermediate sized dry solids with the relatively large and intermediate dry solids being first removed from the flue gas, the relatively large sized dry solids being discharged as waste, and the intermediate sized dry solids being recycled for reuse in reacting with the acid gas and with the relatively small sized dry solids being removed second from the flue gas and the relatively small sized dry solids recycled for reuse in reaction with the acid gases.

Processes and apparatus for removing acid gases from flue gas

A downcomer including a tubular member oriented vertically and extending downwardly from a fluidized grid and including a lower portion provided with an inclined opening formed at a first angle with respect to the tubular member, and a flapper valve including an upper portion and a lower portion formed at a second angle with respect to the upper valve portion, the upper portion of the flapper valve is mounted pivotally to the tubular member at a position to normally place the lower portion of the flapper valve in engagement with and closing the inclined opening.

Downcomer and flapper valve

Novel sorbents comprising (a) an alumina substrate having a pore volume between 0.4 and 0.8 cc/g, and (b) an alkali or alkaline earth component, for example, sodium carbonate, wherein the amount of the alkali or alkaline earth component is between 50 and 400 .mu.g per m.sup.2 of the substrate. The sorbents of the present invention are outstandingly effective for the removal of nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and hydrogen sulfide from waste gas streams.

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John L Haslbeck