WO2003066196A2 - A method of treating gas - Google Patents
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- WO2003066196A2 WO2003066196A2 PCT/GB2003/000267 GB0300267W WO03066196A2 WO 2003066196 A2 WO2003066196 A2 WO 2003066196A2 GB 0300267 W GB0300267 W GB 0300267W WO 03066196 A2 WO03066196 A2 WO 03066196A2
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01D—SEPARATION
- B01D53/00—Separation of gases or vapours; Recovering vapours of volatile solvents from gases; Chemical or biological purification of waste gases, e.g. engine exhaust gases, smoke, fumes, flue gases, aerosols
- B01D53/14—Separation of gases or vapours; Recovering vapours of volatile solvents from gases; Chemical or biological purification of waste gases, e.g. engine exhaust gases, smoke, fumes, flue gases, aerosols by absorption
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01D—SEPARATION
- B01D47/00—Separating dispersed particles from gases, air or vapours by liquid as separating agent
- B01D47/06—Spray cleaning
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01D—SEPARATION
- B01D47/00—Separating dispersed particles from gases, air or vapours by liquid as separating agent
- B01D47/06—Spray cleaning
- B01D47/063—Spray cleaning with two or more jets impinging against each other
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01D—SEPARATION
- B01D47/00—Separating dispersed particles from gases, air or vapours by liquid as separating agent
- B01D47/10—Venturi scrubbers
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
- B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
- B05B1/26—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means with means for mechanically breaking-up or deflecting the jet after discharge, e.g. with fixed deflectors; Breaking-up the discharged liquid or other fluent material by impinging jets
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02C—GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
- F02C7/00—Features, components parts, details or accessories, not provided for in, or of interest apart form groups F02C1/00 - F02C6/00; Air intakes for jet-propulsion plants
- F02C7/04—Air intakes for gas-turbine plants or jet-propulsion plants
- F02C7/05—Air intakes for gas-turbine plants or jet-propulsion plants having provisions for obviating the penetration of damaging objects or particles
Definitions
- the invention relates to the treatment of gas, and in particular air, for removing contaminant from the gas supplied to a plant in which the gas is utilised and comes into contact with liquid.
- the invention has particular application to the treatment of air supplied to a gas turbine compressor, for example for power generation.
- the compressor requires oil lubrication, but requires that the air supply has a very low concentration of volatile organic compounds (VOC's) .
- VOC's volatile organic compounds
- the invention is based upon the appreciation that by pre-scrubbing the air supply to the compressor intake with the same liquid as is used for lubrication of the compressor, then any contaminants, such as VOC's, capable of being absorbed by the liquid will be absorbed in the scrub liquor and thus removed before they can contaminate the lubricant in the compressor. It will be appreciated that this concept is useful for any plant or apparatus in which gas and liquid come into contact and there is a risk that contaminants in the gas when absorbed into the liquid give rise to undesirable effects .
- a method of treating gas, and in particular air, (which alternatives are hereinafter referred to simply as "gas") supplied to a plant or apparatus in which the gas comes into contact with a liquid which method is characterised in that the gas is passed on its way in to the said plant or apparatus through a scrubber device in which the gas is scrubbed by a scrub-liquor which is the same as the liquid with which the gas comes into contact in the said plant or apparatus.
- the scrubber device comprises a vortex chamber having at least one tangential inlet port for the gas and an axial outlet port through which the treated gas emerges and, within the chamber, a liquid spray generator which is fed with the said scrub-liquor and which generates a spray of droplets of the scrub-liquor so as to fill a substantial proportion of the vortex chamber with droplets .
- the liquid spray generator is of the type in which opposed jets of liquid impinge upon each other and are disrupted to form a spray of droplets and the liquor is supplied to the liquid spray generator under conditions in which the flow is at least partially turbulent, preferably under conditions for which the Reynolds number is greater than 12,000, so that the droplets in the spray are projected outwardly from, and transverse to the flow direction of, the opposed jets of liquor with a random distribution of the angular relationship between the direction of movement of the droplets relative to the direction of flow of the said opposed jets of liquor.
- the invention includes a plant or apparatus in which a supply of gas comes into contact with a liquid in the plant, which plant or apparatus includes a scrubber device characterised in that the gas supply on its way in to the said plant or apparatus is pre-scrubbed by a scrub-liquor which is the same as the liquid with which the gas comes into contact in the said plant or apparatus .
- the apparatus comprises a vortex chamber gas/liquid contactor 11 of the type described in patent GB 2282983.
- the contactor 11 is connected to receive air from an air intake 34 and to supply input air, in this example, drawn in by a compressor 36 of a small power supply gas turbine generator.
- the contactor 11 comprises a cylindrical vortex chamber 12 which has a tangential gas inlet port 13 and an axial gas outlet port 14.
- the opposed nozzles are, in this example, aligned with the central axis of the vortex chamber 12.
- a baffle 20 extends across the lower part of the vortex chamber 12 and the portion of the vortex chamber below the baffle 20 forms a sump 21 into which liquor 22 drains from the spray formed in the vortex chamber 12.
- liquor 22 collecting in the sump is removed via outlet 23 and reconstituted, as, for example by distillation, steam stripping, or membrane separation of absorbed contaminants, in equipment indicated diagrammatically at 38, from which it is returned to the supply tank 37.
- Air feed to the tangential inlet 13 of the vortex chamber 12 is supplied by air intake 34 via gas feed pipe 35.
- the scrub-liquor drawn from the supply tank 37 is the same liquid as that used for lubrication in the gas turbine compressor 36.
- the pump 24 is such as to drive the liquor through the feed pipe 15 and branches 16, 17 so that the flow of the opposed liquor jets emerging from the nozzles 18, 19 is turbulent, and in this example having a Reynolds number in excess 12,000. Under these conditions, the impinging jets of liquor at 25 are formed into a spray of droplets which are projected in all directions outwardly from, and transverse to the flow direction of, the opposed jets of liquor. Because of the turbulence in the impinging liquor jets, there is a random distribution of the angular relationship between the direction of movement of the droplets relative to the direction of flow of the said opposed jets of liquor.
- the vortex chamber 12 is, in this way, very effectively filled with droplets of liquor which are collected by their impact on the outer wall of the chamber. The collected droplets flow down the outer wall and into the sump 21, from which this collected liquor is reconstituted in equipment 38 and then available for re-circulation.
- the air entering the vortex chamber 12 via the tangential inlet port 13 is caused to swirl through the chamber 12 and ultimately exit axially by outlet port 14.
- the air is thus subjected to a particularly effective scrubbing interaction with the spray of droplets of the liquor. Any contaminants in the air, which are capable of being absorbed by the liquor, are absorbed in the spray droplets and thus carried with them into the sump 21, whilst the air, now significantly decontaminated, flows via outlet 14 into the inlet of the compressor 36.
- a liquor spray injector (not shown) in the inlet to the compressor 36, as a way of providing, in this example, a supply of uncontaminated lubricating oil to the turbine.
- the invention is not restricted to the details of the foregoing example. For instance, there may be circumstances in which it is not air which is supplied but some other gas .
- the method and apparatus can equally well be applied to the removal from such a gas of contaminants which would otherwise be absorbed in liquid in the process plant with potentially deleterious effects .
- the decontamination may require more than 1 stage of treatment in a vortex chamber gas/liquid contactor.
- Such multiple stage decontamination may readily be applied, for example, by choosing any suitable multiple stage version as described in patent GB 2282983.
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| AU2003202679A AU2003202679A1 (en) | 2002-02-07 | 2003-01-24 | A method of treating gas |
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| GB0202813.2 | 2002-02-07 | ||
| GB0202813A GB2385011A (en) | 2002-02-07 | 2002-02-07 | Treatment of contaminated gas |
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| WO2003066196A2 true WO2003066196A2 (en) | 2003-08-14 |
| WO2003066196A3 WO2003066196A3 (en) | 2003-11-20 |
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| CN111346505A (en) * | 2018-12-20 | 2020-06-30 | 恩特格里斯公司 | Active wet type washing and filtering system |
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| JPS5819876B2 (en) * | 1979-08-02 | 1983-04-20 | 株式会社 前川製作所 | Lubrication method for screw compressor |
| FR2564331B1 (en) * | 1984-05-15 | 1986-10-03 | Air Ind Systemes Sa | IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO POLLUTION GAS CLEANING PLANTS BY SOLID AND / OR LIQUID PARTICLES |
| EP0577543B1 (en) * | 1992-07-03 | 1995-12-13 | New Sulzer Diesel AG | Process and installation for purifying exhaust gases from a large diesel engine |
| GB2282983B (en) * | 1993-09-11 | 1997-08-20 | Atomic Energy Authority Uk | Spray generators |
| WO2001058558A2 (en) * | 2000-02-14 | 2001-08-16 | Eco 3 Max Inc. | Process for removing volatile organic compounds from an air stream and apparatus therefor |
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| CN111346505A (en) * | 2018-12-20 | 2020-06-30 | 恩特格里斯公司 | Active wet type washing and filtering system |
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| WO2003066196A3 (en) | 2003-11-20 |
| AU2003202679A1 (en) | 2003-09-02 |
| GB2385011A (en) | 2003-08-13 |
| AU2003202679A8 (en) | 2003-09-02 |
| GB0202813D0 (en) | 2002-03-27 |
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