Operation of a sulfuric acid plant using blended copper smelter gases. Final report Mar--Dec 75
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:7116190
A high degree of control of SOx emissions at copper smelters can be obtained by blending reverberatory furnace gases with gases from roasters and converters and using the combined stream as feed to a sulfuric acid plant. The Bor Copper Smelter in Bor, Yugoslavia, experimented with this technique for a short time and reported that visible plumes of acid mist were emitted from their acid plant stack. This was attributed to the carbon dioxide present in the reverb gases, which was presumed to decrease the absorption of SO/sub 3/ with the unabsorbed SO/sub 3/ emitted as a mist. The results of this study indicate that the visible plume produced at the acid plant at Bor, Yugoslavia, when reverberatory furnace gases were added to its feed stream were caused by factors other than the presence of CO/sub 2/. The visible plume could most likely have resulted from additional sulfuric acid mist loads imposed upon the wet electrostatic precipitator (ESP) that receives cooled smelter gases from the acid plant cooling system. Factors which could have increased the mist content of the blended gases when the reverberatory furnace gases were included are discussed. (GRA)
- Research Organization:
- Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7116190
- Report Number(s):
- PB-258649
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
500200* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AEROSOLS
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON DIOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
COLLOIDS
COPPER
DISPERSIONS
ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS
ELEMENTS
EQUIPMENT
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INORGANIC ACIDS
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS RECOVERY
METALS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PLUMES
POLLUTION CONTROL
POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT
PROCESSING
RECOVERY
SMELTING
SOLS
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR OXIDES
SULFURIC ACID
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AEROSOLS
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON DIOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
COLLOIDS
COPPER
DISPERSIONS
ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS
ELEMENTS
EQUIPMENT
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INORGANIC ACIDS
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS RECOVERY
METALS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PLUMES
POLLUTION CONTROL
POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT
PROCESSING
RECOVERY
SMELTING
SOLS
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR OXIDES
SULFURIC ACID
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING