Underground diesel exhaust wet scrubbers: current status and future prospects
Abdulwahid, Ahmed Adeeb, Situ, Rong, and Brown, Richard J. (2018) Underground diesel exhaust wet scrubbers: current status and future prospects. Energies, 11 (11). 3006.
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Abstract
Diesel engines release a range of harmful components into the environment in the form of gases, liquids, and particulate matter (PM). These components have a direct and indirect impact on human health and climate change. Wet scrubbers are used to clean diesel exhaust emissions, by bubbling them through a liquid (usually water) to reduce their temperature and remove some soluble components and particles. Then, these emissions pass through a filter to remove further diesel particulate matter. The PM-capturing mechanism, heat transfer mechanism, and fluid mechanism of a wet scrubber are reviewed. Several parameters have a major influence on wet scrubber performance, such as inlet gas velocity. Modeling of a wet scrubber can be conducted through thermodynamics analysis, heat transfer analysis, and computational simulation. These investigations may lead to optimizing wet scrubber performance, and then to reducing both humidity and temperature at the scrubber exit. This humidity reduction increases filter life and reduces maintenance costs.
| Item ID: | 56724 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1996-1073 |
| Keywords: | wet scrubber, two-phase flow, particulate matter, diesel exhaust, underground mining, heat transfer |
| Copyright Information: | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Dec 2018 07:33 |
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