A. Ahlstrom Corporation

Foster Wheeler Energia Oy

A. Ahstrom Corporation

Kurt Westerlund

Matti A Hiltunen

Timo Hyppanen

Harry Lampenius

Kari Myohanen

Kim Westerlund

A method and apparatus for cooling hot gas in a reactor which is provided with a mixing chamber for hot gas and a chamber encompassing a bubbling fluidized bed in the lower section of the reactor, a riser in the middle section, a gas outlet in the upper section of the reactor, and heat transfer surfaces for recovering heat from solid particles. The hot gas is introduced through the mixing chamber into the lower section of the reactor. In the mixing chamber solid particles are supplied to the hot gas for cooling the gas. The gas containing solid particles is conveyed into a separator. From the separator, the gas is conveyed through the riser into particle separators and, when purified, out of the reactor. The solid particles separated in the particle separator are returned to the lower section of the reactor, preferably both directly into the mixing chamber and into the fluidized bed. From the fluidized bed, cooled solid particles are conveyed to the mixing chamber for cooling of hot gas.

Method and apparatus for treating or utilizing a hot gas flow

A method and apparatus for cooling hot gas in a reactor in which the lower section of the reactor is provided with an inlet for hot gas and a chamber encompassing a bubbling fluidized bed. A central section of the reactor is provided with a riser, and the upper section with a gas outlet, and the reactor has heat transfer surfaces for recovering heat from solid particles. The riser is defined by vertical walls which are disposed above the bubbling fluidized bed so that they divide the fluidized bed into concentric outer and inner parts. From the inner part of the fluidized bed solid particles are supplied to the hot inlet gas for cooling thereof. The gas containing solid particles is conveyed through the riser into the upper section of the reactor, where solid particles are separated from the gas in a particle separator and returned to the fluidized bed into the outer part thereof.

Apparatus for treating or utilizing a hot gas flow

Treatment of process gases containing halogenous compounds

A method of cooling hot flue or process gases containing halogenous compounds in two successively located circulating fluidized bed reactors. In the first reactor the gases are cooled to a temperature of &gt;400.degree. C. In the second reactor the gases are rapidly cooled to below a temperature zone of 250.degree.-400.degree. C. In the first reactor the gases are brought into contact with a catalytic material capable of destroying polyhalogenous compounds. A retention time of 1-10 seconds, preferably 2-5 seconds, is provided for the gases in the first reactor.

Method of treating process or flue gases containing halogenous compounds

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