Abstract
Operation tests of the smoke-tube boiler emission NOx treatment plant which consists of a plasma ozonizer using a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen generator and silent discharge for indirect NO oxidation and a Na2SO3 chemical scrubber are carried out for cogeneration boilers which uses a city gas and heavy oil as a fuel based on our proposed plasma-chemical hybrid NOx reduction principle. It is clear that amount of NO removed is almost same as the amount of corresponding O3 concentration to oxidize NO regardless of fuels and flow rates of flue gas. After the relation between oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) and the NOx removal efficiency is obtained, continuous operation tests of this plant are performed. For gas firing boiler emission, the NO complete removal and the decrease in NOx from 32 ppm to 3 ppm are achieved for 300 min by keeping -30 mV of ORP. For the treatment of heavy oil boiler emission, the decrease in NOx from 90 ppm to less than 25 ppm is maintained for 250 min. It is demonstrated that the high NOx removal performance can be maintained for a long time by keeping the optimum value of ORP.
