Scrubber, wet gas washer for exhaust gas or air cleaning
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A wet scrubber is a simple method to clean exhaust air or exhaust gas and remove toxic or smelling compounds. In the flue gas scrubber, the gas gets in close contact with fine water drops in a co-current or counter current flow. This method is more effective when the water drop size gets smaller and the total surface between water or washing fluid and the gas gets larger. The water or washing fluid is recirculated normally in order to save water and reduce the amount of waste water.
The following components can be removed from the exhaust gas:
The result is decontamination, detoxification, dedusting or dust
removal, dehumidification, as well as removal of smelling for the
benefit of our environment.
Especially water soluble components can be removed very well from the
gas. By dissolving those components, the water or washing liquid will
be contaminated in many cases. The dissolved components are frequently
acid or basic chemicals like hydogen chloride HCl, nitric / nitrogen
oxide NO / NO2 or ammonia NH3. By an optional
neutralization unit, installed in the wet scrubber it is possible to
keep the pH value of the washing liquid and the waste water at a
neutral level. Furthermore absorption of acid components is improved by
using basic washing liquid and removal of basic chemicals is more
effective by using acid washing liquid.
Dust is precipitated and if larger amounts are created then this
will lead to slurry accumulation in the waste water, which has to be
removed by filtering. The filter cake might be special waste and has to
be treated accordingly.
Compounds which hydrolyze decompose in contact with water. During
the chemical reaction new soluble compounds might be created which are
then removed immediately by the spray water. Solid reaction
products might end up in the waste water as slurry and have to be
filtered out and disposed. In the semiconductor industry wet scrubber
are used e.g. for the removal of TEOS
(Tetraethoxysilane) or TiCl4 Titan tetrachloride from the exhaust gas.
A wet scrubber can be combined also with other flue gas cleaning
methods. Gases can be first cleaned by a washer, then treated by a
thermal reactor and then treated again by a wet scrubber. You can find
such combined exhaust gas cleaners in our SBW and SWB gas scrubber.
SemiAn offers gas scrubber which have been developed for cleaning exhaust gas from single process tools, as they are used in the semiconductor and LCD industry. Therefore our gas cleaner are sized for a gas flow in the range of 100 - 1.200 slm or 6 - 72 m3/h. Of course, we can also offer gas scrubber of that size for other applications also. Our equipment is reliable and cost effective.
A special application is the gas extraction and gas cleaning for acid or caustic etchers or etching bathes. Also solvent bathes which contain water soluble solvents like alcohols or aceton can be extracted. The exhaust air contains in this case rather low amounts of acid, lye or solvent. However the amount of extracted gas is rather high. SemiAn can offer scrubbers also for this application, e.g. the model SSW500.
For cleaning of large amounts of exhaust gas, industrial exhaust gas or collected exhaust gas from several process tools, usually large washer are installed beside the building or on top of the roof of a building. We can also offer such exchaust gas washers on request.