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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1991
Werner Weisweiler, Remchingen-Singen, DE;
Erhard Herrmann, Karlsbad-Spielberg, DE;
Wolfgang Fennemann, Karben, DE;
Harald Sauer, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Bernd Thone, Friedberg, DE;
Metallgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Abstract
The process of removing dust, sulfur compounds and nitrogen oxides from combustion exhaust gases, comprising mixing a combustion exhaust gas with ammonia; feeding Ca(OH).sub.2 and FeSO.sub.4 to a fluidized bed reactor containing mixed solids including fly ash, iron sulfates and calcium compounds, especially Ca(OH).sub.2, CaCO.sub.3, CaO, CaSO.sub.4 and CaSO.sub.3 ; supplying an ammonia-containing exhaust gas mixture to the fluidized bed reactor as a fluidizing gas; operating the fluidized bed reactor at a temperature between 300.degree. and 450.degree. C. to form a reacted exhaust gas; supplying the reacted exhaust gas to a multistage electrostatic precipitator having a first stage and additional stages; recycling solids collected in the first stage to the fluidized bed reactor; and recycling one portion of additional solids collected in the additional stages to the fluidized bed reactor and discharging another portion of the additional solids.