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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1980
Alan D Randolph, Tuscon, AZ (US);
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
The Arizona Board of Regents, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (US);
Abstract
The flue gas desulfurization process using a lime or limestone slurry scrubbing solution producing used liquor containing calcium sulfite or sulfate (typically gypsum). Precipitated particles are removed by feeding the used scrubbing liquor to an agitated crystallization zone to grow crystals and directing part of the used scrubbing liquor from that zone to a quiescent crystallization zone, in which particles are settled back into the agitated zone. An underflow stream from the agitated zone containing large crystals is combined with an overflow stream from the quiescent zone, which combined stream is clarified with the fines being returned to the scrubber and the large crystals being removed as a waste product. Apparatus for performing the above process in which the agitated and quiescent crystallization zones form part of a single crystallization vessel, and the two zones are separated by a baffle.