Performance evaluation of wet scrubber system for industrial air pollution control

The concentration of pollutants emitted from industrial production are generally toxic and hazardous, which can be a serious health risk to humans not limited to respiratory ailments (asthma, bronchitis, tuberculosis, etc) but also to the photosynthesis in plants. In this study, a pilot scrubber s...

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Main Authors:	Danzomo, Bashir Ahmed, Salami, Momoh Jimoh Eyiomika, Jabirin, Sani, Khan, Md. Raisuddin, M. Nor, Iskandar
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spelling	iium-335822014-06-17T07:14:25Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/33582/ Performance evaluation of wet scrubber system for industrial air pollution control Danzomo, Bashir Ahmed Salami, Momoh Jimoh Eyiomika Jabirin, Sani Khan, Md. Raisuddin M. Nor, Iskandar T Technology (General) The concentration of pollutants emitted from industrial production are generally toxic and hazardous, which can be a serious health risk to humans not limited to respiratory ailments (asthma, bronchitis, tuberculosis, etc) but also to the photosynthesis in plants. In this study, a pilot scrubber system for PM10 control has been designed using data obtained from cement industry. A model for the overall collection efficiency of counter current scrubber system and Langmuir’s approximations were used to predict the performance of the system by considering droplet sizes of 500μm, 1000μm, 1500μm and 2000μm. The range of liquid to gas ratio recommended by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been used to investigate the appropriate ratio for optimum performance of the system. Due to reversed flow in the Langmuir’s approximation, negative collection efficiencies for the 1μm dust particle were obtained. For 5μm and 10μm dust particles, the maximum collection efficiencies were determined to be 99.988% and 100.000% at 500μm droplet size and 2.7 l/m3 while the minimum was obtained to be 43.808% and 58.728% at 2000μm droplet size and 0.7 l/m3. The predicted performance of the scrubber system was then validated using the World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standard for PM10.The concentration of pollutants emitted from industrial production are generally toxic and hazardous, which can be a serious health risk to humans not limited to respiratory ailments (asthma, bronchitis, tuberculosis, etc) but also to the photosynthesis in plants. In this study, a pilot scrubber system for PM10 control has been designed using data obtained from cement industry. A model for the overall collection efficiency of counter current scrubber system and Langmuir’s approximations were used to predict the performance of the system by considering droplet sizes of 500μm, 1000μm, 1500μm and 2000μm. The range of liquid to gas ratio recommended by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been used to investigate the appropriate ratio for optimum performance of the system. Due to reversed flow in the Langmuir’s approximation, negative collection efficiencies for the 1μm dust particle were obtained. For 5μm and 10μm dust particles, the maximum collection efficiencies were determined to be 99.988% and 100.000% at 500μm droplet size and 2.7 l/m3 while the minimum was obtained to be 43.808% and 58.728% at 2000μm droplet size and 0.7 l/m3. The predicted performance of the scrubber system was then validated using the World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standard for PM10. Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN) 2012-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/33582/1/JOURNAL_ARTICLE_3_-_ARPN.pdf Danzomo, Bashir Ahmed and Salami, Momoh Jimoh Eyiomika and Jabirin, Sani and Khan, Md. Raisuddin and M. Nor, Iskandar (2012) Performance evaluation of wet scrubber system for industrial air pollution control. ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 7 (12). pp. 1669-1677. ISSN 1819-6608 http://www.arpnjournals.com/jeas/volume_12_2012.htm
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spellingShingle	T Technology (General) Danzomo, Bashir Ahmed Salami, Momoh Jimoh Eyiomika Jabirin, Sani Khan, Md. Raisuddin M. Nor, Iskandar Performance evaluation of wet scrubber system for industrial air pollution control
description	The concentration of pollutants emitted from industrial production are generally toxic and hazardous, which can be a serious health risk to humans not limited to respiratory ailments (asthma, bronchitis, tuberculosis, etc) but also to the photosynthesis in plants. In this study, a pilot scrubber system for PM10 control has been designed using data obtained from cement industry. A model for the overall collection efficiency of counter current scrubber system and Langmuir’s approximations were used to predict the performance of the system by considering droplet sizes of 500μm, 1000μm, 1500μm and 2000μm. The range of liquid to gas ratio recommended by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been used to investigate the appropriate ratio for optimum performance of the system. Due to reversed flow in the Langmuir’s approximation, negative collection efficiencies for the 1μm dust particle were obtained. For 5μm and 10μm dust particles, the maximum collection efficiencies were determined to be 99.988% and 100.000% at 500μm droplet size and 2.7 l/m3 while the minimum was obtained to be 43.808% and 58.728% at 2000μm droplet size and 0.7 l/m3. The predicted performance of the scrubber system was then validated using the World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standard for PM10.The concentration of pollutants emitted from industrial production are generally toxic and hazardous, which can be a serious health risk to humans not limited to respiratory ailments (asthma, bronchitis, tuberculosis, etc) but also to the photosynthesis in plants. In this study, a pilot scrubber system for PM10 control has been designed using data obtained from cement industry. A model for the overall collection efficiency of counter current scrubber system and Langmuir’s approximations were used to predict the performance of the system by considering droplet sizes of 500μm, 1000μm, 1500μm and 2000μm. The range of liquid to gas ratio recommended by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been used to investigate the appropriate ratio for optimum performance of the system. Due to reversed flow in the Langmuir’s approximation, negative collection efficiencies for the 1μm dust particle were obtained. For 5μm and 10μm dust particles, the maximum collection efficiencies were determined to be 99.988% and 100.000% at 500μm droplet size and 2.7 l/m3 while the minimum was obtained to be 43.808% and 58.728% at 2000μm droplet size and 0.7 l/m3. The predicted performance of the scrubber system was then validated using the World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standard for PM10.
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author	Danzomo, Bashir Ahmed Salami, Momoh Jimoh Eyiomika Jabirin, Sani Khan, Md. Raisuddin M. Nor, Iskandar
author_facet	Danzomo, Bashir Ahmed Salami, Momoh Jimoh Eyiomika Jabirin, Sani Khan, Md. Raisuddin M. Nor, Iskandar
author_sort	Danzomo, Bashir Ahmed
title	Performance evaluation of wet scrubber system for industrial air pollution control
title_short	Performance evaluation of wet scrubber system for industrial air pollution control
title_full	Performance evaluation of wet scrubber system for industrial air pollution control
title_fullStr	Performance evaluation of wet scrubber system for industrial air pollution control
title_full_unstemmed	Performance evaluation of wet scrubber system for industrial air pollution control
title_sort	performance evaluation of wet scrubber system for industrial air pollution control
publisher	Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN)
publishDate	2012
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