Modelling the Quench Tower in Flue Gas Cleaning of a Waste Fueled Power Plant

To control the emission of pollutants in the flue gas, a separated flue gas quench was added after flue gas desulfurization and before flue gas condensation. A mathematic model was developed to simulate the heat and mass transfer in the flue gas quench. The model was validated through the comparison with measured data. Based on this model, the impacts of inlet flue gas condition and injected recycling water flow rate on the water consumption of the quench and the temperature of exit flue gas (FG) were studied. The results show that the temperature of exit FG and water consumption increased with the increase of flow rate and moisture content of FG. The temperature of exit FG increased and the water consumption decreased with the increase of droplet water diameter. The temperature of exit FG decreased and the water consumption increased with the increase of water flow rate. In order to cooled and humidified the flue gas sufficiently, the droplet diameter should be limited to 1.2 mm and the water to FG flow rate ratio (L/G) higher than 2.