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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
May. 21, 2015
The Babcock & Wilcox Company, Barberton, OH (US);
Gea Process Engineering A/s, Soeborg, DK;
Michael G Klidas, Rocky River, OH (US);
Kevin E. Redinger, Alliance, OH (US);
Joseph M Mitchell, III, Canal Fulton, OH (US);
Steven Feeney, Lancaster, OH (US);
Niels Jacobsen, Gentofte, DK;
Claus Erik Boilesen, Taastrup, DK;
The Babcock & Wilcox Company, Akron, OH (US);
GEA Process Engineering A/S, Gladsaxevej, DK;
Abstract
The present invention relates generally to the field of emission control equipment for boilers, heaters, kilns, or other flue gas-, or combustion gas-, generating devices (e.g., those located at power plants, processing plants, etc.) and, in particular to a new and useful method and apparatus for reducing and/or eliminating various liquid discharges from one or more emission control equipment devices (e.g., one or more wet flue gas desulfurization (WFGD) units). In another embodiment, the method and apparatus of the present invention is designed to reduce and/or eliminate the amount of liquid waste that is discharged from a WFGD unit by subjecting the WFGD liquid waste to one or more drying processes, one or more spray dryer (or spray dry) absorber processes, and/or one or more spray dryer (or spray dry) evaporation processes.