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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1999
Cees Jan Nico Buisman, Harich, NL;
Hendrik Dijkman, Ijlst, NL;
Petrus Leonardus Verbraak, Weesp, NL;
Adrianus Johannes Den Hartog, Oegstgeest, NL;
Biostar Development C.V., Balk, NL;
Abstract
A device for purifying flue gas containing nitrogen oxides, in which the flue gas is scrubbed with a circulating scrubbing liquid which contains a transition metal chelate such as Fe(II) EDTA and the complex formed from nitrogen oxide and transition metal chelate and/or spent transition metal chelate is regenerated biologically in the presence of an electron donor, nitrogen oxide being reduced to molecular nitrogen. The biological reactor can be combined with the gas scrubber. The electron donor is, for example, hydrogen or methanol, but may also be sulphite which originates from sulphur dioxide in the flue gas.