Acoustic agglomeration is a potential pretreatment technology for efficient reduction of particulate matter emission in flue gas. However
high energy consumption restricts its commercial application. To improve acoustic agglomeration efficiency
droplet spray was added to aerosol. The influences of operating parameters on agglomeration efficiency were studied to explore compounding effect of acoustic field and droplet spray. The results showed that acoustic agglomeration efficiency was increased by 25% to 40% with addition of droplet spray. Whether the droplet spray existed or not
similar influence of sound frequency on agglomeration was observed with optimum frequency at 1400 Hz. The agglomeration efficiency rose with the increase of sound power
liquid-gas ratio or aerosol residence time
which reached to maximum when liquid-gas ratio was over 0.10 or aerosol residence time exceeded 4.2 s. Two main mechanisms were proposed for the improvement of agglomeration efficiency with presence of droplet spray. One was that droplet spray created liquid bridge forces between particles
which were much stronger than van der Waals forces
and increased collision efficiency greatly. The other was that liquid droplets acted as particle seeds for agglomeration
which had significantly different entrainment factors compared to surrounding small particles. Consequently
relative movement among aerosol particles was enhanced so agglomeration efficiency was promoted. The results suggest that energy consumption of acoustic agglomeration process can be reduced dramatically with addition of droplet spray.
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TAO Mingqing
MU Minghao
CHENG Teng
WANG Bo
Zongkang SUN
Xiaodan ZHANG
Linjun YANG
Shuai CHEN
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(College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), Engineering Research Center of Fine Particle Pollution Control Technology and Equipment (), ,Gansu, )
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School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University
((College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), Engineering Research Center of Fine Particle Pollution Control Technology and Equipment (), , Gansu, ))