Publications related to Flue-gas desulfurization

Electrostatic particle collector

ESP particle collector (1) for collecting particles in a particle containing gas stream, comprising an inlet section (4), a collector section (6), and an electrode arrangement (8), the inlet section comprising a flow tube (10) defining a gas flow channel ( ...

2023

Multi-time integration approach for combined pulp and ammonia production and seasonal CO2 management

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

In this work, the gasification of the black liquor is proposed as an alternative ammonia production route. Due to the seasonal variation of the energy prices, a multi-time integration approach that combines different technologies and energy inputs is used ...

2023

Amine Functionalization in Porous Adsorbents for Carbon Capture and Conversion

Anita Justin

Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) are a class of crystalline porous materials with exceptionally high surface area, chemical tunability and stability. Due to alarming CO2 emission and global concern, research is focused on developing porous materials like MO ...

EPFL2022

Electrostatic particle collector

Satoshi Takahama, Nikunj Dudani

ESP particle collector (1) for collecting particles in a particle containing gas stream, comprising an inlet section (4), a collector section (6), and an electrode arrangement (8), the inlet section comprising a flow tube (10) defining a gas flow channel ( ...

2022

Intentional oxygen oscillations on Pd/Al2O3 for enhanced methane removal from the exhaust of natural gas engines

Maneka Claire Roger

Natural gas (NG) is a suitable alternative to gasoline and diesel fuels to decrease the carbon footprint of the mobility and energy sectors. Although NG is considered a fossil fuel, methane (CH4), its main component, can be produced industrially from power ...

EPFL2022

Nanosecond pulsed laser-processing of CVD diamond

Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Marco Cantoni, Sébastien Equis

This work considers the resulting material structural effects of laser-processing chemical vapor deposited (CVD) diamond. The utilized 532 nm wavelength laser had a pulse duration of 40 ns together with a spot diameter of ca. 40 mu m. The effect of cutting ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Data-driven design of metal-organic frameworks for wet flue gas CO2 capture

Berend Smit, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Susana Garcia Lopez, Kyriakos Stylianou, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Peter George Boyd, Andrzej Gladysiak, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Arunraj Chidambaram, Enrique Garcia Diez

Limiting the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is one of the largest challenges of our generation(1). Because carbon capture and storage is one of the few viable technologies that can mitigate current CO2 emissions(2), much effort is focused on developing ...

2019

Power-to-methane via co-electrolysis of H2O and CO2: The effects of pressurized operation and internal methanation

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Ligang Wang, Tzu-En Lin, Hanfei Zhang

This paper presents a model-based investigation to handle the fundamental issues for the design of co-electrolysis based power-to-methane at the levels of both the stack and system: the role of CO2 in co-electrolysis, the benefits of employing pressurized ...

2019

Methodology for the identification of promising integrated biorefineries

Ayse Dilan Celebi

Steady increase in global energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and depletion of fossil energy resources, together with increased attention towards sustainable development has prompted researchers to discover economical and environmentally competit ...

EPFL2019

The impact of sorbent geometry on the sulphur adsorption under supercritical water conditions: a numerical study

Christian Ludwig, Andrea Testino

A numerical model to show the impact of the adsorption bed geometry on the desulfurization process of wet biomass under supercritical water (SCW) gasification process has been developed. Three different geometries, straight channels (pipe), sharp-edged cha ...

Springer Heidelberg2017

Advanced Nanopowder Synthesis : Characterization, Performance and Kinetics of CeO2-based Supports, Catalysts and Segregation Processes

Frank Pilger

CeO2-based nanomaterials and their rich redox chemistry provide a possible route to pollutant abatement in various heterogeneous processes, and are in particular used as sorbents for flue gases and as oxygen promoters in three-way catalytic converters. The ...

EPFL2017

Rational Design of a Low-Cost, High-Performance Metal-Organic Framework for Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Capture

Berend Smit, Kyriakos Stylianou, Andrzej Gladysiak, Matthew David Witman

We present the in silico design of a MOF-74 analogue, hereon known as M-2(DHFUMA) [M = Mg, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn], with enhanced small-molecule adsorption properties over the original M-2(DOBDC) series. Constructed from 2,3-dihydroxyfumarate (DHFUMA), an aliphati ...

2017

Dynamics of wet flue gas desulphurization in spray absorber

A concise one dimensional thermal-hydraulic two-fluid model is presented for the numerical prediction of sulphur dioxide absorption from the flue gas onto drops of the water-limestone slurry in the vertical spray tower absorber. The model is based on mass, ...

2016

Kinetic model for calcium sulfate alpha-hemihydrate produced hydrothermally from gypsum formed by flue gas desulfurization

Xuerun Li

Modeling of the kinetics of the synthesis process for calcium sulfate alpha-hemihydrate from gypsum formed by flue gas desulfurization (FGD) is important to produce high-performance products with minimal costs and production cycles under hydrothermal condi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Inertisation of heavy metals in municipal solid waste incineration fly ash by means of colloidal silica – a synchrotron X-ray diffraction and absorption study

Rudolf Paul Wilhelm Jozef Struis

Many efforts have been undertaken in past decades to minimize pollution from municipal solid waste incineration fly ash (MSWI FA). This residue is toxic, because of its high concentration of heavy metals, mainly Pb and Zn. A new method for heavy metals ent ...

RSC Publishing2013

Incremental model identification of gas-liquid reaction systems

Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter, Sriniketh Srinivasan

Identification of kinetic models is an important task for monitoring, control and optimization of industrial processes. Kinetic models are often based on first principles, which describe the evolution of the states – numbers of moles, temperature and volum ...

2013

Vibrationally Bond-Selective Chemisorption of Methane Isotopologues on Pt(111) Studied by Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy

Li Chen

In this thesis, I describe the design and first applications of a new molecular-beam/surface-science ultra-high vacuum apparatus. The new machine combines rovibrational state-selective infrared pumping of gas-phase reactants with reflection absorption infr ...

EPFL2012

Persistence of engineered nanoparticles in a municipal solid-waste incineration plant

Christian Ludwig, Michaël Rossier

More than 100 million tonnes of municipal solid waste are incinerated worldwide every year1. However, little is known about the fate of nanomaterials during incineration, even though the presence of engineered nanoparticles in waste is expected to grow2. H ...

Nature Publishing Group2012

Online elemental analysis of process gases with ICP-OES: A case study on waste wood combustion

Christian Ludwig, Marco Wellinger

A mobile sampling and measurement system for the analysis of gaseous and liquid samples in the field was developed. An inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES), which is built into a van, was used as detector. The analytical syste ...

Elsevier2012

Co-production of Hydrogen and Electricity from Lignocellulosic Biomass: Process Design and Thermo-economic Optimization

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

The thermochemical production of hydrogen from lignocellulosic biomass is systematically analyzed by developing environomic models combining thermodynamics with economic analysis, process integration techniques and optimization strategies for the conceptua ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2011