Uhde Gmbh

Manfred Koch

Horst Grochowski

Ludwig Muhlhaus

Michael Buxel

Horst Thieme

Rolf Lambach

Friedrich-Wilhelm Pietzarka

A process and an apparatus for the purification of gases, particularly for the desulphurization of and NO.sub.x -elimination from flue gas by multistage adsorption and catalytic reaction in gravity-flow moving beds of granular, carbon-bearing materials contacted by a transverse steam of the gas, in which a minimum of two moving beds are arranged in series with reference to the gas route so that NO.sub.x -elimination takes place in the second or any downstream moving bed. Where large volumes of flue gas from industrial furnaces must be purified, purification is adversely affected by the formation of gas streaks with widely varying sulphur dioxide concentrations. This disadvantage is eliminated in that the prepurified flue gas leaving the first moving bed and having a locally variable sulphur dioxide concentration gradient is subjected to repeated mixing before ammonia is added as reactant for NO.sub.x -elimination.

Method for the purification of flue gases

This invention relates to a process for the desorption of spent solid adsorbent through heating the latter to desorption temperature by means of a hot granular heat carrier medium; particularly of activated coal or activated coke used for flue gas purification by adsorption in power plants, for example.

Process for the desorption of spent solid absorbent

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Holzwickede, Germany

Manfred Koch