Discharge of cleaned flue gases via cooling towers

Conference · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:5893418

Remberg, H W ^[1]; Arntson, J K ^[2]

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1. Balcke-Durr AG Ratingen (DE)
2. Zurn Balcke-Durr Inc., Tampa, FL (US)

In the middle of the 1980s in connection with measures to retrofit a coal-fired power station with flue gas desulphurization plants, 15 natural draft cooling towers were reconstructed in such a way that the flue gases treated using the wet method could be conveyed into the cooling tower via appropriate flue gas ducts without being reheated. In the cooling tower the flue gases are mixed with the plume and, thanks to the high enthalpy of the plume, are discharged into the atmosphere in an ecologically acceptable state. The reconstruction measures required for this are described in this paper using the natural draft cooling tower of a 600 MW lignite-fired power generating unit as an example.

• OSTI ID: 5893418
• Report Number(s): CONF-901034--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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