Control of Fugitive Fine Coal Particulate Emissions from Coal Handling System at Coal-Fired Power Plants using a Two-Stage Vortex Scrubber

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Dispersion of Particulate Matter and Sulphur Oxides from Thermal Power Plant: a Case Study

“…The other type of wet scrubber unit is the vortex scrubber (Brauer and Varma, 2012). CFD calculations carried out on double vortex scrubber concluded that the performance is better with a double vortex system than a single vortex system (Kim et al 2019). In order to impede the flow of dust and smoke, a filtration device like the electrostatic precipitator (ESP) are also studied (Gromaszek et al 2016).…”