Effect of Flue Gas Recirculation on Multi-Cyclones Performance in Reducing Particulate Emission from Palm Oil Mill Boiler |
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Authors: | W. C. Chong M. Ramli J. Ruwaida Z. Z. Noor |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chemical Engineering , University Teknologi Malaysia , Johor , Malaysia;2. Air Resources Research Laboratory, Malaysian-Japan International Institute of Technology , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia |
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Abstract: | The effect of recirculating the flue gas on the performance of a multi-cyclones unit as particulate collector in an actual plant scale was studied. The existing multi-cyclones unit was modified by connecting a recirculation duct between the inlet and outlet gas stream of the multi-cyclones attached with an external induced (ID) fan. The particulate samplings were done following the U.S. EPA method at boiler outlet (before multi-cyclones), stack (after multi-cyclones) and recirculation duct. Result shows that the amount of recirculated particulates increases with ID fan suction power. The collection efficiency increased slightly from 68% (0% or without recirculation) to 74% (at 11% recirculation) and dropped to 67% (at 17% recirculation). Moreover, the amount of the fine particulate size fraction emitted able to be reduced one fold at 11% recirculation flow rate. However, high amount of recirculated particulates results in re-entrainment of particulates into the outlet of the multi-cyclones, hence, results in increase of particulate emission in the stack. |
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Keywords: | Air pollution multi-cyclones particulate collector particulate emission particulate loading recirculation |
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