Modeling limestone reactivity and sizing the dissolution tank in wet flue gas desulfurization scrubbers

Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 663-672

  Carletti, Claudio ^a,b   Bjondahl, Frej ^a   De Blasio, Cataldo ^c   Ahlbeck, Jarl ^a   Järvinen, Lauri ^a,d   Westerlund, Tapio ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

dissolution; flue gas desulfurization; limestone; modeling; simulation

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION RATES; FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SECOND ORDER KINETICS; SECOND-ORDER MODELS; SIMULATION; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS; WET FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; COAL COMBUSTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESULFURIZATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXPERIMENTS; FLUE GASES; LIMESTONE; MINERALS; MODELS; SCRUBBERS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

DISSOLUTION;

EID: 84880273527     PISSN: 19447442     EISSN: 19447450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.11683     Document Type: Article

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