Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Naoyuki Kawamata

Akio Kobayashi

Toshiharu Matsuda

Isao Funahashi

Tomijiro Morita

Makoto Naoki

Jun Fukui

Sulfur dioxide can be removed from a combustion exhaust gas and converted to gypsum by first scrubbing a sulfur dioxide-containing combustion exhaust gas with an aqueous alkali sulfite solution to form an alkali bisulfite-containing aqueous solution and then treating, within a closed system, the thus formed aqueous bisulfite solution with a calcium compound. The efficiency of the sulfur dioxide removal can be increased greatly by adding a portion of alkali sulfite aqueous solution circulating in the system to at least a portion of filtrate from the gypsum separation process to precipitate metallic ionic impurities contained in the filtrate in the form of salts and separate these salts by filtration, and then recirculating the filtrate from the salt separation process to the absorption system.

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Naoyuki Kawamata