Air Pollution Control Systems

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 A Leader in Pollution Control

‹ Founded 1968
‹ Over 1,400 APC Systems

‹ Unique, Custom and Total Systems

‹ Process Design Oriented

‹ Broad Scope of Products

‹ Total Service Company

 Products and Services
‹ Acid Gas Absorption Systems
‹ Open Spray Towers
‹ Tray Towers

‹ Packed Towers

‹ Reagents Used:
caustic soda / soda ash / magnesium /
lime / high magnesium lime /
AirPol’s patented Dilute Dual Alkali system
‹ Particulate Control Systems
‹ Venturi Scrubbers & Cyclonic Scrubbers
‹ Wet Electrostatic Precipitators
 Products and Services

‹ Semi-dry Scrubber Systems

‹ Dual Fluid Nozzle Type
‹ Circulating Fluidized Bed Type

‹ Rotary Atomizer Type

‹ Dry Injection System

‹ Dry Lime & Activated Carbon Injection system with
Baghouse
 Industries Served

‹ Pulp and Paper

‹ Municipal, Industrial and Hazardous Waste
Incinerators
‹ Chemical and Pharmaceutical
‹ Cogeneration Plants and Industrial Boilers
‹ Iron and Steel
‹ Mining and Smelting
‹ Wood
 Major reference Projects
‹ Wet FGD System for National Southwire
– Application: SO2 Absorption Spray Tower for Aluminum Potline
– Customer: National Southwire
– Location: Hawesville, Kentucky
– Contract Value: $2,300,000
– Gas Volume: 448,563ACFM @ 220oF

‹ Semi-dry scrubber FGD system for a 50 MW Coal

Fired Boiler Plant (Turnkey)
– Application: Power Plant FGD
– Customer: City of Hamilton, Ohio
– Location: City of Hamilton, Ohio
– Contract Value: $11,000,000
– Gas Volume: 223,000 ACFM
 Major reference Projects
‹ Retrofit of Semi-dry Scrubbers to Existing APC Systems
of a 2 x 210 tpd MSW Plant (Turnkey)
– Application: Acid Gas Removal for MSW Plant
– Customer: Wasatch Energy System
– Location: Layton, Utah
– Contract Value: $6,400,000
– Gas Volume: 72,500 ACFM per Train

‹ Venturi Scrubber System for Two (2) Coal / Bark Fired

Power Boilers (Turnkey)
– Application: Pulp & Paper Plant Power Boiler Dedusting
– Customer: Georgia-Pacific
– Location: Cedar Springs, Georgia
– Contract Value: $7,200,000
– Gas Volume: 450,000 ACFM (per unit)
 Major reference Projects
‹ NaOH Based Open Spray Tower Type FGD Scrubber
– Application: Pulp & Paper Mill - (4) Coal Pulverized Fired Boilers
– Customer: Westvaco, Bleached Board Division
– Location: Covington, VA
– Contract Value: $3,700,000
– Gas Volume: 541,000 ACFM; 480,000 ACFM

‹ Soda Ash Based Open Spray Tower Type FGD

Scrubber
– Application: 60 MW Cogeneration Plant Power Boiler FGD
– Customer: China Petroleum Development Corp.
– Location: Toufen, Taiwan
– Contract Value: $1,200,000
– Gas Volume: 250,000 ACFM
 Wet Scrubber Installations
SO2 Scrubbers 220
Pulp and Paper Boilers 65
Dissolving Tank Vents 60
Incinerators 110
Lime Sludge Kilns 95
Lime Slakers 34
Iron Foundries 43
Steel Mills and Coke Ovens 45
Miscellaneous Venturi Scrubbers 95
Miscellaneous Scrubbers 656

All Scrubbers 1,423

Note: Number of Na2CO3 based FGD Systems = 189

Number of NaOH based FGD Systems = 112
 International Business
• China – Sunic-AirPol Environmental Equipment
Co., Ltd., Beijing, a joint venture company with
Sunic Corp.
• Korea – STX Corp., Soul, a licensee of AirPol’s
wet scrubber technologies.
• Japan – Shinko Pantec Corp., Kobe, a licensee of
AirPol’s wet ESP technology.
• South Africa – Howden Energy Systems,
technical cooperation partner.
 International Business
• Sweden– FigJoh Corp., technical cooperation
partner
• Australia – Air Pollution Corporation, technical
cooperation agreement partner
• Taiwan – Cotech Engineering Corp., technical
cooperation agreement partner
• India – Thermax Limited, licensee for scrubber
technologies.
AirPol Wet Scrubbers
AirPol Wet Scrubbers

Acid Gas Absorption:

z Open Spray Towers
z Packed Towers
z Tray Towers
AirPol Open Spray Tower
 AirPol SO2 Absorbers
The Driving Forces for the
Business
•Principle of Particulate Scrubbing

•“To entrap the particles in liquid

droplets”

•Mechanism:
China • a) Collision
(impaction) – all sizes
Petroleum
•
•
Dev. Corp. b)
Electrostatic Forces –
small sizes
(325,290• acfm)
• c) Brownian
Molecular Movements
• -ultra-fine
sizes

National South Wire

(448,400 acfm)
AirPol Packed Tower
Packed Towers for HCl Absorption
(Pharmacia, P. R. )
AirPol Tray Tower
 Semi-dry Scrubber Systems

Purpose
Injection of lime slurry and water into the hot
gas stream (in the reactor) for the removal of
particulates and acid gases while producing a
dry byproduct.
Semi-dry Scrubbing Process
Semi-dry Scrubber Applications

‹ Waste Incinerators / Roasters

‹ Municipal solid waste incinerators
‹ Medical and solid waste incinerators

‹ Industrial waste incinerator / roasters

‹ Boilers
‹ Industrial boilers
‹ Utility boilers
Semi-dry Scrubber - Dual Fluid Nozzle Type
 Semi-dry Scrubber – CFB Type
(GSA)
50 tpd Dual Fluid Nozzle SD – Fergus Falls, MN
100 tpd SWIP, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
50 MW GSA - Hamilton, Ohio
($11 million Turnkey Project)
 Particulate Removal

Particulate
Devices Removal
for Particulate Removal
Venturi Scrubber
Wet Electrostatic Precipitators
Venturi Scrubbers
 Venturi Forces
The Driving and Separator
for the
BusinessLEGEND
•Principle of Particulate Scrubbing

•“To entrap the particles in liquid 1. Raw gas inlet

droplets” 2. Scrubbing liquid
•Mechanism: 3. Swirling “dentist bowl”
4. Recycle liquid
• a) Collision
(impaction) – all sizes 5. Collision zone
•
• b) 6. Throat damper
Electrostatic Forces – location
small sizes
• 7. Diverging section
• c) Brownian
Molecular Movements 8. Gas/liquid mixture
• -ultra-fine 9. Liquid reservoir
sizes
10. Bleed
11. Anti-spin baffles
12. Clean gas outlet
 Venturi Scrubber Applications

¾Pulp & Paper – Power boilers, recovery

boilers, lime sludge kilns, dissolving tank
vents, slakers and bleach plants.
¾Wood Products – “Blue haze”
elimination for dryers.
¾Steel – Blast Furnaces, basic oxygen
furnaces and scarfing plants.
¾Incinerator plant, chemical plant &
pharmaceutical plant dedusting
Blast Furnace Venturi

Customer: U.S. Steel

Location: Gary, IN
Gas Volume: 500,000
ACFM
 AirPol Venturi Installation
The Driving Forces for the
($7.2 million Turkey Project)
Georgia Pacific,
•Principle of Particulate Scrubbing
Business
Cedar Springs, Georgia
•“To entrap
Two (2) venturi the particles
scrubbers in liquid
with recycle tanks
droplets”
handling 450,000 ACFM each unit
•Mechanism:

• a) Collision
(impaction) – all sizes
•
• b)
Electrostatic Forces –
small sizes
•
• c) Brownian
Molecular Movements
• -ultra-fine
sizes

Above: Unit at fabrication shop

Left: Venturi / Separator in operation
 Wet Electrostatic Precipitator

Purpose
Removal of sub-micron particulate
and condensed elements, i.e.: heavy
metals, dioxin and furans
AirPol Wet Electrostatic Precipitator
Wet Electrostatic Precipitator
Wet ESP Electrodes
Wet ESP Internals
 WESP Applications

‹ Combustion processes which produce

‹ sub-micron elements and / or
‹ elements which condense & result in “blue” or
“brown” haze stack plume.
‹ Key target elements include
‹ heavy metals
‹ fine “sticky” particulate

‹ acid mists

‹ condensed salts
Typical WESP Industrial Applications

‹ Sewage Sludge Incinerators

Fluid Bed and Multiple Hearth
‹ Hazardous Waste Incinerators
Liquid Waste and Fluid Bed
‹ Wood Dryers
OSB and Veneer Panel Board
‹ Steel Manufacturing
Coke Oven Gas Cleaning
Fine (Sub-micron) Particulate Control
 TheThe AirPol
Driving Advantage
Forces for the
Business
•Principle of Particulate Scrubbing

•“To entrap the particles in liquid

™ Proven Technologies
droplets”

•Mechanism:

Highly
™•(impaction) – all sizes Qualified Personnel
a) Collision

•
• b)

System Engineering Capability

Electrostatic Forces –
™small
•
sizes

• c) Brownian
Molecular Movements
AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY ….
•
sizes
-ultra-fine
 The The
Driving Forces
AirPol for the
Advantage
Business
•Principle of Particulate Scrubbing

•“To entrap the particles in liquid

WE ARE EXPERIENCED.
droplets”

•Mechanism:

• a) Collision
(impaction) – all sizes

WE’VE BEEN THERE AND

•
• b)
Electrostatic Forces –
small sizes

DONE IT BEFORE !
•
•
Molecular Movements
c) Brownian

• -ultra-fine
sizes
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