• Particle and aerosol research
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.97-107
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• 2022

The geometry of popular wave plate type mist eliminator for the wet flue gas desulfurization process was improved, fabricated, and experimentally evaluated. A Mist eliminator is a type of inertial particle collector which collection efficiency is proportional to the velocity of the gas phase. However, as the amount of re-entrainment is also proportional to the gas phase velocity, there is a limitation for the gas phase flow rate. Re-entrainment is one of the most important issues in a mist eliminator and is likely to occur as the input of the liquid phase and flow rate of the gas phase increase. In order to resolve this problem, the projection angle of the improved mist eliminator is set to 30° from the conventional one while maintaining the cross-section. With low flow rate conditions, the modified mist eliminator showed a similar pressure drop and overall collection efficiency. However, with conditions in which re-entrainment is obviously occurring, the modified mist eliminator showed better performance in draining droplets than the conventional one. As a result, the modified mist eliminator showed higher overall collection efficiency.

• Particle and aerosol research
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.73-80
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• 2018

Recently, there has been much research on the effect of ultrafine dust on human body with increasing interest in the ultrafine dust. In the Republic of Korea, there are many old thermal power plants, and the amount of ultrafine dust emitted from the thermal power plants is reported to be about 14% of the total amount of domestic fine dust. Therefore, the amount of fine dust from the flue gas desulfurization facility in the thermal power plant needs be reduced. In this study, we made an experimental setup to simulate a flue gas desulfurization facility and analyzed the physical characteristics of the particles passing through a mist eliminator. Experiments were carried out to investigate the collection efficiency of the mist eliminator by using the Arizona Test Dust in a dry environment, and then spraying limestone slurry into the flue gas desulfurization system equipped with the mist eliminator to examine the size and morphology of limestone particles upstream and downstream of the mist eliminator. Cut-off size of the mist eliminator was formed at about $6{\mu}m$. The result of this study is expected to be helpful for designing an electrostatic precipitator for removing particles passing through the mist eliminator.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12a
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• pp.370-372
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• 2011

Mist Eliminator(ME)는 화학 공정플랜트 요소부품으로 석유화학공정에서 vapor stream에 존재하는 미세액적의 제거를 위해 많이 사용된다. 하지만 mist eliminator의 설계를 위한 기술접근이 어려워 국내 기술수준은 아주 낮은 상태이다. 본 연구에서는 CFD 소프트웨어를 이용하여 단일 재질(stainless)로 구성된 mist eliminator의 밀도 및 크기 변화에 따른 유동장 내부의 압력, 유속, 유선결과의 예측하였으며, 동일하게 설계된 실험값을 이용하여 Souders-Brown 계수 K를 예측하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.119-127
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• 2021

Small drops in gas cause some problems for downstream equipments such as turbine, compressor and etc. In some cases, we are obliged to remove hazardous liquid mist from gas. In order to remove water or other liquids from the gas, there are some equipments like mesh mist eliminator and vane-plate mist eliminator. oil mist filter is a kind of liquid eliminator equipments used to remove the liquid with 1-10um droplet diameter from the gas. In this paper is determine the factors affecting the oil mist filter efficiency using CFD. length and angle of the filter were considered and the results and compare the results of the efficiency tests, showed error of less than 3%. optimum filter can remove more than 87.3% between 1 and 10um of oil mist.

• Particle and aerosol research
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.135-143
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• 2016

Removal of water contents in a gas is needed in industrial field of gas processing related on energy production/conversion, and environmental treatment. Inertial separators are economic devices for separating droplets from the gas stream. For accurate understanding of removal process in a curved vane mist eliminator, a numerical model including turbulent dispersion, evaporation and condensation of water vapor at surface of droplets is required. A two-stage curved vane mist eliminator has been modeled, and fluid flow of mixture of air and water vapor and droplet trajectories were solved simultaneously with taking into account two-way coupling. Removal efficiency of droplets with various inlet condition of relative humidities (RH, 40%, 90%, and 100%) were compared. As RH increased, the effect of evaporation decreased and inertial separation efficiencies of droplets obtained increased especially for droplets of diameter below 10 micrometers.

• Particle and aerosol research
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.57-65
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• 2019

Recently, there has been much research on the effect of fine dust on human body with increasing interest in the fine dust. Thermal power plant, which is considered as one of the main sources of fine dust, is reported to be responsible for 14% of the total amount of domestic fine dust in the Republic of Korea. Therefore, dust collecting devices in the thermal power plant need to be improved. In this study, the electrostatic precipitator (ESP) was considered to substitute for a mist eliminator used in flue gas desulfurization facility. By considering real situation in the flue gas desulfurization facility, the collection efficiency of the ESP was evaluated by using the sprayed limestone slurry particles. The collection efficiency of the ESP was higher than that of the mist eliminator, showing the possibility of replacing the mist eliminator with the ESP in flue gas desulfurization facility.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12a
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• pp.349-352
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• 2011

본 연구를 통해 개발하고자 하는 Wire-Mesh Type Mist Eliminator는 탄화수소(Hydrocarbon)를 취급하는 석유화학 공정 내에서 Vapor 중에 존재하는 $10{\mu}m$ 이하크기의 미세한 액체 Mist를 분리하는데 사용되는 화학 공정플랜트 요소부품이다. 석유화학 공정에서 발생되는 $5{\mu}m$이하의 크기를 가지는 액체 Mist를 제거하기 위해서는 Stainless와 Polypropylene 재질이 혼합된 새로운 WMT Mist Eliminator 국산화 제품개발 시급하다. 실험을 통해 확보한 인자를 바탕으로 제작된 시제품의 분석결과 석유 화학공정에 이용이 가능한 것을 확인하고 성능이 우수함을 알 수 있었다.

• Clean Technology
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.191-199
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• 2015

The SO_x emission from the ship diesel engines will do a negative influence to the human health and the environment. To reduce the negative environmental effect of the SO_x emission caused by the high traffic of ship movements, the SECA (SO_x emission control area) has been set on several province around world to carry out the severe emissions control and to meet the emissions control standard. To cut down the SO_x emission from the ships, the wet type scrubber is being used widely. In this work, we prepared a numerical model to simulate the spray type scrubber to study the motion of liquid droplets in the flow of the scrubber. For the analysis, the CFD (computational fluid dynamics) method was adopted. As a special topic of the study, we designed the wave plate type of mist eliminator to check the carry over of the uncontrolled water droplet to the exhaust. Numerical analysis is divided into two stages. At the first stage, the analysis was done on the basic scrubber without the mist eliminator, and then the second stage of analysis was done on the scrubber with the mist eliminator on several condition to check and compare with the basic scrubber. On the condition of the basic scrubber, 42.0% of the distributed water droplets were carried over to the exhaust. But by adding the designed droplet eliminator at the exhaust of the scrubber, only 3.4% of the distributed water droplets supplied to the scrubber was emitted to the atmosphere.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.106-106
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• 2004

보일러에서 연소된 후 배출된 가스는 탈황목적으로 설치된 흡수탑 내에 유입되어 Slurry Spray Nozzle에서 분사된 Limestone Slurry에 의해 배기가스중의 SO$_2$를 흡수한 다음 반응조로 떨어지게 되지만 분사된 액적의 일부는 배기가스의 압력에 의하여 같은 유동 방향으로 미세한 Mist의 형태로 배기가스와 함께 흡수탑의 Outlet Duct를 통해 빠져나간다. 이 Mist(액적크기 40 $\mu\textrm{m}$이하)에는 고형 성분이 함유되어 있는데 보통 Chloride농도가 높아 탈황설비 후단 (duct, GGH, Stack)에 plugging, 부식 등의 문제를 유발하므로 Spray Header상부에서 Mist Eliminator를 설치하여 Mist를 제거하도록 한다.(중략)

• Particle and aerosol research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.23-29
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• 2013

Inertial impaction type mist eliminators are the most effective instruments to separate mist from the gas. In this work, the effect of the horizontal chevron type mist eliminators is characterized experimentally. Droplet size distribution and evaluation of removal efficiency of the chevron type mist eliminators at different gas flows were investigated using an aerosol particle size analyzer and a portable aerosol spectrometer, respectively. The experimental investigations showed that the mist removal efficiency in these instruments is dependent in the droplet size, and the pressure drop is nil.