High power electron accelerators for flue gas treatment

✍ Scribed by Zbigniew Zimek

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 273 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0969-806X
• DOI: 10.1016/0969-806x(94)00154-c

✦ Synopsis

Over 1000 accelerators based on different principles have been constructed and used in the field of radiation chemistry and radiation processing. One of the radiation processes which was successfully demonstrated in many laboratories and pilot plant facilities is the reduction of SO 2 and NOx pollutants from flue gases emitted during fuel combustion in boilers for electrical power and heat production. The full scale industrial implementation of an electron beam process for flue gases treatment would require accelerator modules with a beam power of over 500 kW and electron energy in the range 1-1.5 MeV. The 500 MW power plant may require 5-8 MW of electron beam power deposited in the flue gas.