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ICESP VIII CONFERENCE PAPER ABSTRACTS B-1 SERIES

Held in Birmingham, AL, USA
May 14 - 17, 2001

The International Conference on Electrostatic Precipitation (ICESP) is the official conference of the International Society for Electrostatic Precipitation (ISESP).  

The following is a list of the Abstracts for the B-1 Series papers from the VIII ICESP Conference. 

B1-1 Sinter Plant Pollution Control Technology for the New Millennium 
Louis Eksteen, K. Hofstadler, F. Murauer, and W. Gerbert

Abstract
During the latter part of the 20th century, the restrictions and moral obligations on the control of atmospheric pollution has increased dramatically, necessitating the development of novel technologies to ensure compliance to stricter legislation and the fulfilment of industry's obligations to the Environment.

Based on this motivation, ISCOR joined forces with VAI to ensure the development of a technology capable of reducing the emission levels from its sintering operation in Gauteng, South Africa.  This technology entails a hybrid scrubbing and wet-electrostatic precipitator system, capable of high cleaning efficiencies for the notoriously difficult to clean fine potassium chloride particulate, as well as simultaneous high efficiency removal of PCDD/F and SOx compounds.

The initial plant trials of this system attained cleaning efficiencies above 93% on PCDD/F's, above 98% on dust particulate and above 80% on SOx.  The design and basic engineering of the full-scale plant as a joint exercise by technical teams from ISCOR and VAI, consists of a 10-module, high efficiency cleaning system, with an accompanying waste-water treatment plant, leading to a zero-effluent operation.  The full-scale plant design is based on a cleaning efficiency of 96% of all particulate matter and caters for a waste-gas volume of approx. 900 000 Nm3/hour. 

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B1-2 Enhancing Sinter Strand ESP Performance using Pulse Energisation 
Peter Elholm and Carsten R. Lund Abstract


Abstract
As environmental awareness has increased and

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B1-3 High Efficiency Removal of Dust and Gaseous Pollutants Downstream of Glass Furnaces
G. Mayer-Schwinning

(Manuscript not available for proceedings)

  


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B1-4 Electrostatic Precipitators for Refinery Fluid Bed Catalytic Cracking Units
Robert A. Mastropietro and John D. Cunic  

Abstract
The motion which strongly affects the distribution of charged particles in an electrostatic precipitator is first investigated using a laboratory model with barbed ionizing electrodes. The flow visualization reveals a vigorous well organized roll-like secondary flow. A simple 2-D numerical model confirms that the typical velocity of this secondary flow can be up to about 1 m/s. An exploratory numerical investigation is performed on the influence of this vigorous secondary flow on the trajectories of fine particles, on the location where they reach the collecting plates and on the charge they gain during their transit.

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