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Method to reduce mercury, acid gas, and particulate emissions

US9308493B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 15, 2014
Grant dateApr 12, 2016
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Expiry dateAug 15, 2034

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01D2258/0283
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A waste gas is contacted with a mercury removal agent to remove mercury and a flue gas conditioning agent to alter a resistivity and/or cohesivity of particulates. The flue gas conditioning agent can be substantially free of SO3 and/or comprise more than about 25 wt. % SO3, and/or the mercury removal agent can be substantially unaffected by the flue gas conditioning agent. An amount of mercury removed from the waste gas in the presence of the flue gas conditioning agent can be the same or more than that removed from the waste gas in the absence of the flue gas conditioning agent. An amount of the acid gas removed, by an acid gas removal agent, from the waste gas in the presence of the flue gas conditioning agent can be the same or more than that removed from the waste gas in the absence of the flue gas conditioning agent.

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