湿法电除尘系统处理焦化厂拦焦烟尘

针对焦化厂烟尘高浓度、高温、高湿和高黏度的特征,采用湍流预洗涤塔和湿法电除尘器处理拦焦烟尘。通过中试实验采样分析,利用全因子设计考察烟气流量、湍流预洗涤塔填料高度和喷淋流量对系统除尘效果的影响。实验表明,填料高度和喷淋流量是影响除尘效果的显著项,拦焦烟尘经过湿法电除尘系统的处理,烟尘浓度为8.3 mg·m-3,系统除尘率达到99.9%。     

Experimental study of cross-flow wet electrostatic precipitator

This paper reports development and testing of a novel cross-flow wet electrostatic precipitator (WESP), recently patented at Ohio University, that utilizes vertical columns of permeable material in the form of polypropylene ropes placed in a cross-flow configuration within a flue gas stream. The cross-flow design has large surface area, which provides scrubbing action; therefore, it has the potential for removing multiple pollutants, including particulates, gases, vapors, and mists. In this new method, the ropes are kept wet by the liquid (water) introduced from the top of the cells running downward on the ropes by capillary action, making the permeable materials act as the ground electrode for capturing particles from the flue gas. Preliminary testing has shown an efficiency of well above 80% using two cells and three sets of discharge electrodes. Since the material of construction is primarily corrosion-resistant polymeric material, both weight and cost reductions are expected from this new design.

Implications: The newly invented cross-flow WESP exhibit particulate collection efficiency of well above 80% when introduced in particulate-laden exhaust flow. This value was obtained using a two cells and three discharge electrodes configuration. The electric field strength has a substantial effect on the collection efficiency. Also, the pressure drop test results indicate that there is a potential to increase the collection area, which, in turn, will increase the collection efficiency further.     

Scavenging of atmospheric formaldehyde by wet precipitation

Despite the great importance that formaldehyde has in atmospheric photochemistry, few studies have been reported on rain water. In this paper, concentrations of HCHO in rain fractions within rain events are presented. Two sampling sites were chosen: one at Mexico City, a great polluted urban area, and the second at Rancho Viejo, a forested area under the meteorological influence of the city. The results show a general decrease during the early portion of the rain event. This seems to indicate that below-cloud scavenging is the most important mechanism while, from the small variations observed in the latter portion of the rainfall, it is possible to assume within-cloud scavenging as the predominant mechanism. Using the HCHO concentrations in rain water, the mixing ratios were estimated for the two sampling sites. The values were 0.68 ppb and 0.44 ppb at Mexico City and Rancho Viejo, respectively. Measurements at ground level in Mexico City gave a mean HCHO concentration in air of 24 ppb, much higher than the estimated mixing ratio. The high levels of HCHO found in ambient air and in rain water reflect anthropogenic emissions as the potential atmospheric sources.     

电除尘技术研究现状及趋势

详细介绍了电除尘技术研究现状、现存问题及其发展趋势.论述了烟尘荷电凝聚机制及其输运特性等,以便解决除尘电场中的电离占空比、输运项甚低等问题;又着重研究了烟尘的荷电、凝聚的物理过程,将有助于解决电除尘器存在的捕集微细烟尘效率低的问题.     

Fine particle migration and collection in a wet electrostatic precipitator

Electrostatic precipitation is considered as an effective technology for fine particle removal. A lab-scale wet electrostatic precipitator (ESP) with wire-to-plate configuration was developed to study particle migration and collection. The performance of the wet ESP was evaluated in terms of the corona discharge characteristics, total removal efficiency and fractional removal efficiency. The corona discharge characteristics and particle removal abilities of the wet ESP were investigated and compared with dry ESP. Particle removal efficiency was influenced by discharge electrode type, SO₂ concentration, specific collection area (SCA) and particle/droplet interaction. Results showed that the particle removal efficiency of wet ESP was elevated to 97.86% from 93.75% of dry ESP. Three types of discharge electrodes were investigated. Higher particle removal efficiency and larger migration velocity could be obtained with fishbone electrode. Particle removal efficiency decreased by 2.87% when SO₂ concentration increased from 0 ppm to 43 ppm as a result of the suppression of corona discharge and particle charging. The removal efficiency increased with higher SCA, but it changed by only 0.71% with the SCA increasing from 25.0 m²/(m³/s) to 32.5 m²/(m³/s). Meanwhile, the increasing of particle and droplet concentration was favorable to the particle aggregation and improved particle removal efficiency.

Implications: This work tends to study the particle migration and collection under spraying condition. The performance of a wet electrostatic precipitator (ESP) is evaluated in terms of the corona discharge characteristics, total particle removal efficiency, and fractional particle removal efficiency. The effects of water droplets on particle removal, especially on removal of particles with different sizes, is investigated. The optimization work was done to determine appropriate water consumption, discharge electrode type, and specific collection area, which can provide a basis for wet ESP design and application.     

Parameterization of wet deposition of sulfate by precipitation rate

A method for the estimation of wet deposition of sulfate is developed using routinely available meteorological data and the observed airborne sulfate concentration. This approach takes into account different mechanisms of precipitation formation that determine sulfate concentration in precipitation water. Four different precipitating cloud types, including cold cloud, warm cloud, stratified layered cloud and convective cloud, according to their precipitation formations are incorporated differently to estimate sulfate concentration in precipitation water. This method is implemented to estimate wet deposition of sulfate in Seoul for the days when the airborne sulfate concentration is available. The estimated wet deposition of sulfate shows that the model slightly overestimates the wet deposition of sulfate especially for the warm cloud case while it does underestimate sulfate deposition for the Bergeron process in developing precipitation particularly when the input airborne sulfate concentration is small. The precipitation amount weighted mean wet deposition of sulfate obtained from the model, overestimates that observed by a factor of 1.6 for this case study. This discrepancy might be associated with non-steady revolutional features of precipitating clouds and the resolvable scaling difference between the model and observation.     

ESP粉尘收集性能的影响因素

为了进一步提高电除尘器的收尘效率,尤其是对高比电阻粉尘的收尘效率,依据非稳态静电收集理论,对影响电除尘器粉尘收集性能各项因素的作用程度及机理进行了进一步研究。实验研究了粉尘收尘效率与不同比电阻粉尘的最优极间距、最优工作电压、粉尘层厚度和比电阻之间的相互关系。研究结果表明,随着极间距的增加,对应比收尘极面积,对于不同比电阻粉尘的收尘效率的增加幅度是不同的,其中高比电阻粉尘的收尘效率增加的趋势更加显著;粉尘比电阻越高,所对应的最优极间距越大,宽间距电除尘器对捕集高比电阻粉尘具有一定优越性;在最优极间距条件下,粉尘比电阻越高,其所对应的最优工作电压越小;相对于正常比电阻粉尘,随极板沉积粉尘层厚度的增加,高比电阻粉尘的最佳收尘效率所对应的最优工作电压升高幅度较大,而且最优工作电压所对应的收尘效率下降显著。随粉尘比电阻的增大,电除尘器收尘效率逐渐降低,特别是当粉尘比电阻大于1011Ω.cm后,粉尘收尘效率显著下降。研究结果与非稳态静电收尘理论提出的观点相吻合,有助于透彻理解电场结构和运行参数与粉尘收集性能的关系,特别是对于今后研发提高高比电阻粉尘收集性能的针对性技术措施具有指导作用。     

侧流电除尘增效机理与检验

针对现有许多电除尘器难以满足日益严苛的颗粒物排放要求而面临提效改造的现状,根据经典电除尘理论,降低电场风速是电除尘器提效的一个有效途径,进而提出一种通过改变烟气流向成倍降低电场风速的侧流电除尘器。首先,为阐明侧流电除尘器的增效机理,基于已有的关于紊流情况下流速对颗粒悬浮作用的研究结果,通过受力分析给出了在有悬浮升力影响下带电颗粒的电除尘效率理论表达式,证明了降低电场风速的增效作用比增加电场长度更有效。然后,在极配结构和处理流量相同、平均入口含尘浓度约1 400 mg·m-3和场强在2.5~4.5 kV·cm-1的情况下,采用中位径为3.5 μm的硅微粉进行了侧流电除尘器和常规电除尘器的减排效果对比实验研究。结果表明,侧流电除尘器的平均排放浓度比常规电除尘器降低45％,减排作用突出。     

湿式电除尘器对烟气中颗粒物的去除特性

当前,中国以PM2.5为代表的灰霾污染形势依然严峻,采取更为严格的措施进一步降低燃煤电厂等重点大气污染源排放已成必然趋势。湿式电除尘器(WESP)由于具有去除PM2.5等细颗粒物的能力而被越来越多的电厂选用。对上海长兴岛第二发电厂烟气中可过滤颗粒物(FPM)、可凝结颗粒物(CPM)、SO3、液滴等关键指标进行了测试分析。结果表明,在湿式电除尘器停运和运行时,烟囱中总颗粒物(TPM)排放浓度分别为30.31 mg/m3和15.74 mg/m3,FPM排放浓度分别为20.31 mg/m3和6.09 mg/m3,PM2.5排放浓度分别为4.06 mg/m3和2.50 mg/m3,CPM分别占TPM的33%和61%,SO3排放浓度分别为4.51 mg/m3和3.06 mg/m3,液滴排放浓度分别为114 mg/m3和102 mg/m3。测试证明,湿式电除尘器的投运对颗粒物和液滴的去除均有明显效果。     

SO2、NO对汞在湿法电除尘器中脱除的影响

湿法电除尘器(WESP)作为一种控制烟气中超细颗粒物的有效手段被应用于燃煤电厂的超低排放改造中,然而烟气中的Hg0受电场、水膜、烟气组分等因素的影响在WESP中的协同脱除机理尚不明确。为了深入了解该机理,探讨了WESP电场和水膜对Hg0的控制机理,并进一步研究了烟气中SO2、NO对Hg0在WESP中脱除的影响。结果表明：电场静电作用对烟气中Hg0脱除贡献较小,O2电离产物?O对Hg0的氧化作用是O2促进Hg0脱除的主要途径,水蒸气通过电离产生?OH促进Hg0氧化以及通过黏附作用促进Hg0脱除;水膜的裹挟作用对WESP系统Hg0的脱除贡献较小,溶于水中的汞不稳定且容易再释放;SO2、NO均通过在电场中电离产生?O促进Hg0氧化脱除,其中,SO2及其电离产物溶于水膜后可以与Hg2+形成稳定配合物抑制汞的再释放,而NO的电离产物在水膜中对汞再释放的抑制作用较小。     

Development of a new portable air sampler based on electrostatic precipitation

Airborne particles are known to cause illness and to influence meteorological phenomena. It is therefore important to monitor their concentrations and to identify them. A challenge is to collect micro and nanoparticles, microorganisms as well as toxic molecules with a device as simple and small as possible to be used easily and everywhere. Electrostatic precipitation is an efficient method to collect all kinds of airborne particles. Furthermore, this method can be miniaturized. A portable, silent, and autonomous air sampler based on this technology is therefore being developed with the final objective to collect very efficiently airborne pathogens such as supermicron bacteria but also submicron viruses. Particles are collected on a dry surface so they may be concentrated afterwards in a small amount of liquid medium to be analyzed. It is shown that nearly 98 % of airborne particles from 10 nm to 3 μm are collected.     

Wetting properties and performance test of modified rigid collector in wet electrostatic precipitators

The fine particles are considered a significant pollution problem. The wet electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) have advantages of efficient collection of the fine particles with lower pressure drop and eliminating reentrainment. The wetting properties of the collector surfaces have significantly important effect on wet ESPs’ stable and secure operation. The modified rigid collector (MRC) was modified by coating specific vinyl ester resin composites and loose glass fiber cloth over the conventional carbon steel in a certain way. The rigid collector surfaces before and after modification had been characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and interface tensiometer. The effect of operating temperatures on the wetting properties of the rigid collector surfaces before and after modification was investigated. The temperature range was 40~90 °C, and the wetting properties contained liquid holdup, surface flow rate, film rate, average film thickness, and critical saturation time. The modified rigid collector surface exhibited excellent wetting properties at the operating temperatures. The fine particles collection performance compared among the MRC, the conventional rigid collector (CRC), and the flexible collector (FC) in the wet ESPs was investigated. The effects of the applied voltage, the water film, corona power, and the specific collecting area on the fine particles collection were evaluated. The modified rigid collector provided high fine particles collection effect with lower energy and water consumption.

Implications: To improve the submicron particles collection efficiency and decrease energy and water consumption, the formation of uniform water film over the collector surfaces has been widely studied. The modified rigid collector was modified by coating specific vinyl ester resin composites and loose glass fiber cloth (ERGF) over the conventional carbon steel (CCS) in a certain way. The modified rigid collector surface exhibited excellent wetting properties. The wet ESPs by the modified rigid collector exhibited significantly higher particles collection efficiency than by the conventional rigid collector.     

Control of diesel gaseous and particulate emissions with a tube-type wet electrostatic precipitator

In this study, experiments were performed with a bench-scale tube-type wet electrostatic precipitator (wESPs) to investigate its effectiveness for the removal of mass- and number-based diesel particulate matter (DPM), hydrocarbons (HCs), carbon monoxide (CO), and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) from diesel exhaust emissions. The concentration of ozone (O3) present in the exhaust that underwent a nonthermal plasma treatment process inside the wESP was also measured. A nonroad diesel generator operating at varying load conditions was used as a stationary diesel emission source. The DPM mass analysis was conducted by means of isokinetic sampling and the DPM mass concentration was determined by a gravimetric method. An electrical low-pressure impactor (ELPI) was used to quantify the DPM number concentration. The HC compounds, n-alkanes, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were collected on a moisture-free quartz filter together with a PUF/XAD/PUF cartridge and extracted in dichloromethane with sonication. Gas chromatography (GC)/mass spectroscopy (MS) was used to determine HC concentrations in the extracted solution. A calibrated gas combustion analyzer (Testo 350) and an O3 analyzer were used for quantifying the inlet and outlet concentrations of CO and NOx (nitric oxide [NO] + nitrogen dioxide [NO2]), and O3 in the diesel exhaust stream. The wESP was capable of removing approximately 67-86% of mass- and number-based DPM at a 100% exhaust volumetric flow rate generated from 0- to 75-kW engine loads. At 75-kW engine load, increasing gas residence time from approximately 0.1 to 0.4 sec led to a significant increase of DPM removal efficiency from approximately 67 to more than 90%. The removal of n-alkanes, 16 PAHs, and CO in the wESP ranged from 31 to 57% and 5 to 38%, respectively. The use of the wESP did not significantly affect NOx concentration in diesel exhaust. The O3 concentration in diesel exhaust was measured to be less than 1 ppm. The main mechanisms responsible for the removal of these pollutants from diesel exhaust are discussed.     

成都市降水对大气颗粒物湿清除作用的观测研究

为研究成都市降水对大气颗粒物(以下简称颗粒物)的湿清除作用,对2014—2016年成都市的颗粒物(PM_2.5、PM₁₀)和气象观测数据进行分析。结果表明:月、季尺度下,降水对PM_2.5、PM₁₀均有削减作用。降水时段的PM_2.5、PM₁₀浓度较非降水时段分别降低17.1%和15.8%,且冬季降幅最为明显。考察472次降水过程对颗粒物的湿清除作用,发现单次降水过程后PM_2.5、PM₁₀浓度增长频次(243、234次)和削减频次(229、238次)接近,但颗粒物浓度总体呈削减趋势。对于单次降水过程,颗粒物的初始浓度与降水对颗粒物的湿清除作用关系密切,特别是降水持续时间超过8h后,颗粒物初始浓度越高,削减效果越好。     

湿式电除尘器的高压恒流源供电及其能效分析

湿式电除尘器电场的放电状态变化大、干扰因素多,尤其是导电玻璃钢阳极管内壁材料的特殊性,必须尽量减少火花放电,防止电极灼伤甚至起火,保证设备安全、稳定运行。为了深入研究湿式电除尘器的电源供电特性及污染物脱除性能,搭建了湿式电除尘器实验系统,并开展不同类型电源的对比实验。实验结果表明：湿式电除尘器喷淋系统开启,工频恒流源运行相对平稳,出口烟尘浓度变化不大,但恒压源则存在一个电源参数振荡区,出口烟尘浓度增加了约147%,因此,湿式电除尘器应优先考虑抗干扰能力强的恒流源;高频恒流源的运行参数更高,污染物脱除性能更强,与工频相比,高频恒流源不同供电电耗时烟尘、SO₃的减排幅度分别为46.30%~78.69%、42.86%~66.67%。通过对实际工程项目的深度测试及节能优化实验,定量分析了湿式电除尘器的比电耗与污染物脱除性能关系。工程实践表明：随机组负荷的降低,湿式电除尘器的污染物脱除性能有所提升,但高压供电比电耗也大幅增加,从满负荷到50%负荷,比电耗从2.41×10⁻⁴ kWh·m⁻³升至4.57×10⁻⁴ kWh·m⁻³,有较大的节能空间;经节能优化,控制湿式电除尘器出口烟尘浓度在4~5 mg·m⁻³,50%负荷的比电耗下降达84.68%。根据该节能优化思路,对其他3个工程项目实施运行优化,控制烟尘排放浓度在4.5 mg·m⁻³以内,比电耗下降幅度分别为32.65%、27.15%、41.64%。以上研究结果可为后续湿式电除尘器的性能提升及节能优化提供参考。     

Formaldehyde levels in air and wet precipitation at Mexico City, Mexico

Formaldehyde concentrations in ambient air and in rain water were measured at the University of Mexico, Mexico City. Air samples were taken twice a day, from 9:00 to 13:00 h and from 13:00 to 16:00 h local time from July to December 1985. Rain water was collected on daily bases from July to October, i.e. during the rainy season. The ambient air mean value was 24.4 x 10(-3) ppmv for morning hours, while the afternoon mean value was 18.5 x 10(-3) ppmv. The formaldehyde concentration in wet precipitation ranged from 0.10 to 0.80 mg liter(-1) (3.3 to 26.6 micromoles liter(-1)) 0.41 mg liter(-1) (13.7 microoles liter(-1)). A comparison of the results of this study with some measurements made at remote maritime sites, rural and urban areas, indicated that the formaldehyde levels in the atmosphere and rain water of Mexico City are among the highest reported in the literature, including the data reported by Grosjean (1982) for Los Angeles, California, during severe photochemical pollution conditions.     

Fine particle removal performance of a two-stage wet electrostatic precipitator using a nonmetallic pre-charger

A novel two-stage wet electrostatic precipitator (ESP) has been developed using a carbon brush pre-charger and collection plates with a thin water film. The electrical and particle collection performance was evaluated for submicrometer particles smaller than 0.01- 0.5 micrometer in diameter by varying the voltages applied to the pre-charger and collection plates as well as the polarity of the voltage. The collection efficiency was compared with that calculated by the theoretical models. The long-term performances of the ESP with and without water films were also compared in tests using Japanese Industrial Standards dust. The experimental results show that the carbon brush pre-charger of the two-stage wet ESP had approximately 10% particle capture, while producing ozone concentrations of less than 30 ppb. The produced amounts of ozone are significantly lower than the current limits set by international agencies. The ESP also achieved a high collection rate performance, averaging 90% for ultrafine particles, as based on the particle number concentration at an average velocity of 1 m/sec corresponding to a residence time of 0.17 sec. Higher particle collection efficiency for the ESP can be achieved by increasing the voltages applied to the pre-charger and the collection plates. The decreased collection efficiency that occurred during dust loading without water films was completely avoided by forming a thin water film on the collection plates at a water flow rate of 6.5 L/min/m(2).