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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2008
Boris Nikolaevich Eiteneer, Irvine, CA (US);
Robert Warren Taylor, Ponte Verda Beach, FL (US);
Vitali Lissianski, San Juan Capo, CA (US);
James Easel Roberts, Kansas City, MO (US);
Boris Nikolaevich Eiteneer, Irvine, CA (US);
Robert Warren Taylor, Ponte Verda Beach, FL (US);
Vitali Lissianski, San Juan Capo, CA (US);
James Easel Roberts, Kansas City, MO (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of reducing particulate matter and mercury emissions in a combustion flue gas includes, in an exemplary embodiment, combusting a fuel resulting in generation a flue gas flow, cooling the flue gas flow within a duct, positioning a flow conditioning apparatus within the duct, enhancing a reaction rate of the mercury and carbon-containing fly ash particles by directing the flue gas flow through the flow conditioning apparatus to mix the carbon-containing fly ash particles and mercury within the flue gas flow and to facilitate at least one of oxidation of the mercury and binding the mercury to the carbon-containing fly ash particles, collecting a portion of the carbon-containing fly ash particles in the flow conditioning apparatus, and directing the flue gas flow to a particulate collection device to remove the remaining portion of the fly ash particles from flue gas flow.