High-efficiency method for removing sulfur and mercury of coal-fired flue gas, and apparatus thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9895657-B2
Application number	US-201314891092-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 25, 2013
Priority date	May 14, 2013
Publication date	Feb 20, 2018
Grant date	Feb 20, 2018

Abstract

A high-efficiency method for removing sulfur and mercury of coal-fired flue gas, and an apparatus thereof. The method comprises: activating, by using water vapor, lime or Ca(OH) 2 used as a sulfur removal and mercury removal absorbent and mixing the lime or Ca(OH) 2 with flue gas; conveying, by using water vapor, part of a by-product to a top of a reaction tower and mixing the part of the by-product with the flue gas, so as to strengthen the sulfur removal and mercury removal effect; the flue gas entering a bag type or electric bag compound dust remover after sulfur removal and mercury removal in the reaction tower, and conveying part of the collected by-product to the reaction tower for cycle use.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for removing sulfur and mercury of a coal-fired flue gas, comprising:
water-spraying a flue gas to cool the flue gas to 72-78° C. in by humidifying and cooling the flue gas before the flue gas entering a reaction tower;
spraying a Ca(OH)2 absorbent into the reaction tower through a water vapor conveyor to mix the Ca(OH)2 absorbent with the flue gas so that SO2 in the flue gas reacts with the Ca(OH)2 and, simultaneously, so that the Ca(OH)2 absorbent is activated into microporous fine particles by water vapor while conveyed by the water vapor to adsorb mercury vapor in the flue gas;
collecting, by a dust remover, a fly-ash produced from sulfur removal and mercury removal from the flue gas;
conveying a part of the flv ash collected by the dust remover, as a recycled flv ash, to an absorbent spraying inlet of the reaction tower through the water vapor conveyor;
conveying outwards another part of the fly ash collected by the dust remover;
feeding purified flue gas into a chimney through an induced draft fan to be discharged;
mixing the recycled fly ash with the flue gas to produce a mixture that enters the reaction tower again for further sulfur removal and mercury removal from the flue gas;
mixing the flue gas with the Ca(OH)2 absorbed and the recycled fly ash, and then fully mixing with the particles through a flue gas distributor, to produce a mixed and uniform distribution of the particles with SO2 and mercury vapor,
wherein an effective height of the reaction tower is 20-24 meters,
wherein a time for sulfur removal and mercury removal of the flue gas in the reaction tower is 4-6 seconds,
wherein the water vapor used by the water vapor conveyor is waste water vapor from a boiler of 0.3-0.5 MPa and 250-300° C. and
wherein a catalyst with MgO and Fe 2 O 3 is added to the Ca(OH) 2 absorbent.

2. The method for removing sulfur and mercury of a coal-fired flue gas according to claim 1 , wherein a weight ratio of the recycled fly ash to Ca(OH) 2 is 100:1-200:1, and wherein a conveying time is 2-5 seconds.

3. The method for removing sulfur and mercury of a coal-fired flue gas according to claim 1 , wherein a molar ratio of Ca(OH) 2 to SO 2 is 1.2-1.5, and wherein a conveying time of Ca(OH) 2 is 2-5 seconds.

4. The method for removing sulfur and mercury of a coal-fired flue gas according to claim 1 , wherein a height of the flue gas distributor is 1/20 of a total height of the reaction tower.

Assignees

• Chinese Res Acad Env Sciences

Inventors

• Wang Fan
• Liu Yu
• Zhang Fan
• Tian Gang
• Wang Hongmei

Classifications

• B01D53/83 Primary

  with moving reactants · CPC title

• F23J2217/101

  Baghouse type · CPC title

• F23J2217/102

  electrostatic · CPC title

• F23J2219/40

  Sorption with wet devices, e.g. scrubbers · CPC title

• B01D53/50

  Sulfur oxides (B01D53/60 takes precedence) · CPC title