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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2000
Filed:
May. 03, 1999
Michael T Hammer, Birdsboro, PA (US);
Michael L Mengel, Fredericksburg, PA (US);
Marsulex Environmental Technologies, LLC, Lebanon, PA (US);
Abstract
An flue gas scrubbing apparatus and process by which flue gases are contacted by a contact medium while traveling rapidly upward through a passage, such that the contact medium is fully entrained in the upward-flowing flue gases. The gases and the entrained contact medium are then redirected downwardly so that the entrained contact medium impacts the surface of a reservoir of the contact medium contained in the tank, with the result that much of the entrained contact medium is separated from the flue gases. The surface of the reservoir of contact medium causes the flue gases to abruptly change flow direction, flowing horizontally at a reduced velocity so that any remaining contact medium entrained in the gases becomes separated from the gases. After another abrupt change in flow direction, the gases are substantially free of contact medium and can be demisted by conventional means.