IP Library Granted Patent US 9,555,341
Granted Patent B2
US 9,555,341 · App. 13/988,644 · Granted Jan 31, 2017

Spray-drying device for dehydrated filtrate from desulfurization wastewater, air pollution control system and flue gas treatment method

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Patent No.
US 9,555,341
App. No.
13/988,644
Granted
Jan 31, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A spray-drying device includes a spray nozzle that sprays the dehydrated filtrate from the desulfurization wastewater, in a spray-drying device body, an inlet that is provided in the spray-drying device body and introduces flue gas for drying spray liquid, a dry area that is provided in the spray-drying device body and dries the dehydrated filtrate by the flue gas, an outlet that discharged the flue gas contributing to the drying, a plurality of thermometers that are provided in the dry area and measure temperatures of the inside, a determination unit that determines whether or not a spray-drying state of the dehydrated filtrate is satisfactory on the basis of the measurement results of the thermometers, and a control unit that adjusts the flue gas or the dehydrated filtrate when it is determined that the spray-drying is not satisfactory as a result of the determination of the determination unit.

Claims (22)

1. A spray-drying device connected to a first line from which a flue gas is supplied via a first valve, a second line from which a desulfurization water is supplied from a desulfurization device via a second valve and a third line from which the flue gas is discharged comprising:

a spray-drying device body;

a spray nozzle that is connected to the second line and provided at a top portion of the spray-drying device body to spray the desulfurization water into the spray-drying device body;

an inlet that is connected to the first line and provided at an upper portion of the spray-drying device body to introduce the flue gas into the spray-drying device body;

an outlet that is connected to the third line and provided at a lower portion of the spray-drying device body to discharge the flue gas contributing to the drying;

a plurality of thermometers that are serially provided in the spray-drying device body below the spray nozzle to obtain a temperature distribution inside of the spray-drying device body;

a determination unit that determines whether or not a spray-drying state of the dehydrated filtrate is satisfactory on the basis of the temperature distribution as a function of positions of the plurality of thermometers and outputs a result of the determination; and

a control unit that controls the first valve or the second valve in response to the result of the determination.

2. The spray-drying device according to claim 1 , wherein the determination unit is configured to determine,

(i) that the spray-drying is satisfactory when the temperature distribution has a constant portion, or

(ii) that the spray-drying is not satisfactory when the temperature distribution continuously decreases toward the outlet.

3. An air pollution control system comprising:

a boiler that burns fuel;

an air heater that recovers heat of flue gas from the boiler;

a precipitator that removes soot dust of the flue gas after the heat recovery;

a desulfurization device that removes sulfur oxides included in the flue gas after the dust removal by an absorbent;

a dehydrator that removes gypsum from desulfurization water discharged from the desulfurization device;

the spray-drying device according to claim 1 provided with a spray unit that sprays the dehydrated filtrate from the dehydrator;

a flue gas introduction line as the first line to supply a part of the flue gas into the spray-drying device;

a desulfurization wastewater line as the second line that connect the dehydrator to the spray-drying device to supply the desulfurization water into the spray-drying device; and

an flue gas supply line as the third line that supplies the flue gas contributing to the drying to a gas supply line.

4. The air pollution control system according to claim 3 , further comprising a solid-liquid separation device that removes suspended substances of the dehydrated filtrate sprayed from the dehydrator.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVING PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11921683 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054975 FRAME: 0438. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 26, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063787/0867 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 13, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054975/0438 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 12, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 034950/0942 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 22, 2013
From: UKAI, NOBUYUKI; NAGAYASU, TATSUTO; KAMIYAMA, NAOYUKI; KAGAWA, SEIJI; FUKUDA, TOSHIHIRO
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 030466/0585 →