In order to mitigate climate change, the priority task is to reduce emissions
of greenhouse gases, including sulfur oxides, from stationary power plants.
The legal framework of the European Union has limited the allowable emissions
of gases with harmful effects and fulfillment of this obligation is also
ahead of the Republic of Serbia in the following years. In this paper
categorization of wet procedures for sulfur oxides removal is given. Wet
procedure with the most widespread industrial application, lime/limestone
process, has been described in detail. In addition, the procedures with
chemical and physical absorption and solvent thermal regeneration, which
recently gained more importance, have been presented. Experimentally
determined thermophysical and transport properties of commercially used and
alternative solvents, necessary for the equipment design and process
optimization, are also given in the paper. The obtained values of densities
and viscosities of pure chemicals - solvents, polyethylene glycol 200 (PEG
200), polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG 400), tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether
(TEGDMA), N-methyl-2-pyrolidon (NMP) and dimethylaniline (DMA), measured at
the atmospheric pressure, are presented as a function of temperature.
[Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 172063]