Volume 4, Issue 2, October 2013, Pages 286–297
Rehan Jamil1, Li Ming2, Irfan Jamil3, and Rizwan Jamil4
1 School of Physics & Electronic Information, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
2 School of Physics & Electronic Information, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
3 College of Energy & Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
4 Heavy Mechanical Complex (HMC-3), Taxila, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2013 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In 1927, the limestone desulfurization process was first applied in the Barthes and Bansside Power Plants (total 120MW) beside the Thames River in UK to protect high-rise building in London. Up to now, over 10 desulfurization processes have been launched and applied. Based on the desulfurizing agent being used, there include calcium process (limestone/lime), ammonia process, magnesium process, sodium process, alkali alumina process, copper oxide/zinc process, active carbon process, ammonium dihydrogen phosphate process, etc. The calcium process is commercially available and widely used in the world, i.e. more than 90%. Flue gas desulfurization processes, survey made by the coal research institute under the International Energy Agency shows that the wet-process desulfurization accounts for 85% of total installed capacity of flue gas desulfurization units across the world. The wet-process desulfurization is mainly applied in countries, like Japan (98%), USA (92%), Germany (90%), etc. The limestone-gypsum wet desulfurization process, the most mature technology, the most applications, the most reliable operation in the world, may have rate of desulfurization of more than 90%. Currently, the flue gas desulfurization technology used at thermal power plants at home and abroad tends to be higher rate of desulfurization, bigger installed capacity, more advanced technology, lower investment, less land acquisition, lower operation cost, higher level of automation, more excellent reliability, etc. This paper briefs current situations and trends of flue gas desulfurization technology also append short descript of different type of FDG and their category.
Author Keywords: Desulfurization Process, FGD technology, Wet-process limestone, Lime-gypsum, Thermal power.
Rehan Jamil1, Li Ming2, Irfan Jamil3, and Rizwan Jamil4
1 School of Physics & Electronic Information, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
2 School of Physics & Electronic Information, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
3 College of Energy & Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
4 Heavy Mechanical Complex (HMC-3), Taxila, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2013 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
In 1927, the limestone desulfurization process was first applied in the Barthes and Bansside Power Plants (total 120MW) beside the Thames River in UK to protect high-rise building in London. Up to now, over 10 desulfurization processes have been launched and applied. Based on the desulfurizing agent being used, there include calcium process (limestone/lime), ammonia process, magnesium process, sodium process, alkali alumina process, copper oxide/zinc process, active carbon process, ammonium dihydrogen phosphate process, etc. The calcium process is commercially available and widely used in the world, i.e. more than 90%. Flue gas desulfurization processes, survey made by the coal research institute under the International Energy Agency shows that the wet-process desulfurization accounts for 85% of total installed capacity of flue gas desulfurization units across the world. The wet-process desulfurization is mainly applied in countries, like Japan (98%), USA (92%), Germany (90%), etc. The limestone-gypsum wet desulfurization process, the most mature technology, the most applications, the most reliable operation in the world, may have rate of desulfurization of more than 90%. Currently, the flue gas desulfurization technology used at thermal power plants at home and abroad tends to be higher rate of desulfurization, bigger installed capacity, more advanced technology, lower investment, less land acquisition, lower operation cost, higher level of automation, more excellent reliability, etc. This paper briefs current situations and trends of flue gas desulfurization technology also append short descript of different type of FDG and their category.
Author Keywords: Desulfurization Process, FGD technology, Wet-process limestone, Lime-gypsum, Thermal power.
How to Cite this Article
Rehan Jamil, Li Ming, Irfan Jamil, and Rizwan Jamil, “Application and Development Trend of Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) Process: A Review,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 286–297, October 2013.
