Pollutant
removal and resource recovery from high-humidity flue
gas after desulfurization in a thermal power plant are crucial for
improving air quality and saving energy. This study developed a flue
gas treatment method involving phase transition enhanced by corona
discharge based on laboratory research and established a field-scale
unit for demonstration. The results indicate that an adequate increase
in size will improve the ease of particle capture. A wet electrostatic
precipitator is applied before the condensing heat exchangers to enhance
the particle growth and capture processes. This results in an increase
of 58% in the particle median diameter in the heat exchanger and an
emission concentration below 1 mg/m3. Other pollutants,
such as SO3 and Hg, can also be removed with emission concentrations
of 0.13 mg/m3 and 1.10 μg/m3, respectively.
Under the condensation enhancement of the method, it is possible to
recover up to 3.26 t/h of water from 200 000 m3/h
saturated flue gas (323 K), and the quality of the recovered water
meets the standards stipulated in China. Additionally, charge-induced
condensation is shown to improve heat recovery, resulting in the recovery
of more than 43.34 kJ/h·m3 of heat from the flue gas.
This method is expected to save 2628 t of standard coal and reduce
carbon dioxide emission by 2% annually, contributing to environmental
protection and global-warming mitigation.
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