System, a use of such a system and a multi system for cleaning exhaust gas

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9844752-B2
Application number	US-201314431639-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 6, 2013
Priority date	Nov 29, 2012
Publication date	Dec 19, 2017
Grant date	Dec 19, 2017

Abstract

A system, a use of such a system and a multi system for cleaning exhaust gas from a combustion engine. The system comprises a first exhaust gas scrubber to communicate with a scrubber water circulation tank. A first outlet of the first exhaust gas scrubber is connectable to a first inlet of the scrubber water circulation tank, and a first inlet of the first exhaust gas scrubber is connectable to a first outlet of the scrubber water circulation tank, to enable circulation of scrubber water between the scrubber water circulation tank and the first exhaust gas scrubber. An air supply device feeds air into the first exhaust gas scrubber to aerate the scrubber water during its passage through the first exhaust gas scrubber. Accordingly, a second inlet of the first exhaust gas scrubber is arranged to be connected to an outlet of the air supply device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system for cleaning exhaust gas (EG) from a combustion engine, comprising a first exhaust gas scrubber connected to a scrubber water circulation tank to communicate with the scrubber water circulation tank, a first outlet of the first exhaust gas scrubber being connected to a first inlet of the scrubber water circulation tank and a first inlet of the first exhaust gas scrubber being connected to a first outlet of the scrubber water circulation tank to enable circulation of scrubber water between the scrubber water circulation tank and the first exhaust gas scrubber, an air supply device connected to the first exhaust gas scrubber to feed air into the first exhaust gas scrubber to aerate the scrubber water during its passage through the first exhaust gas scrubber, a second inlet of the first exhaust gas scrubber being connected to an outlet of the air supply device, and means for chemicals supply to a flow of scrubber water from a second outlet of the scrubber water circulation tank.

2. A system according to claim 1 , wherein the air supply device is connected to the first exhaust gas scrubber to feed air into the first exhaust gas scrubber when no exhaust gas (EG) from the combustion engine is fed into the first exhaust gas scrubber.

3. A system according to claim 1 , wherein the second inlet of the first exhaust gas scrubber is connected to an outlet of the combustion engine.

4. A system according to claim 1 , wherein the air supply device is a purge air fan.

5. A system according to claim 1 , wherein the means for chemicals supply supplies at least one of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) and an alkaline agent.

6. A system according to claim 1 , further comprising an analytical equipment to evaluate a degree of oxidation of sulphites in the aerated scrubber water.

7. A multi system for cleaning exhaust gas (EG) from a combustion engine comprising a system according to claim 1 and a second exhaust gas scrubber connected to the scrubber water circulation tank to communicate with the scrubber water circulation tank and enable circulation of scrubber water between the scrubber water circulation tank and the second exhaust gas scrubber, wherein the second exhaust gas scrubber is receives and cleans the exhaust gas (EG) while the first exhaust gas scrubber aerates the scrubber water during its passage through the first exhaust gas scrubber.

8. A multi system according to claim 7 , comprising a third exhaust gas scrubber connected to the scrubber water circulation tank to communicate with the scrubber water circulation tank and enable circulation of scrubber water between the scrubber water circulation tank and the third exhaust gas scrubber.

9. A multi system according to claim 7 , wherein one of said exhaust gas scrubbers is of EGR type.

10. Use of a system according to claim 1 for alternating operation between aeration of scrubber water during its passage through the first exhaust gas scrubber and cleaning of exhaust gas (EG) from the combustion engine.

Assignees

• Alfa Laval Corp Ab

Inventors

• Molgaard Soren

Classifications

• B01D53/78 Primary

  with gas-liquid contact · CPC title

• F02M26/15

  in relation to engine exhaust purifying apparatus · CPC title

• B01D2251/106

  Peroxides · CPC title

• B01D2259/4566

  for use in transportation means · CPC title

• F01N3/085

  Sulfur or sulfur oxides · CPC title