Estudo de um sistema de limpeza de gases usando um lavador venturi de seção Circular

Abstract

Venturi scrubbers are simples, low cost and highly applicable equipments. They are used in the industry as gas cleaners and in other to control the pollution. The objective of this work was to evaluate a gas cleaning system using Venturi scrubbers with circular section to remove particles off a gas flux. The tests were realized with 2,21 and 9,06 μm particles of phosphate power. The global collection efficiency was determined for 55,2 and 76,8 m/s of gas velocity, 340 and 500 mL/min of liquid flow and for 99 and 132 mm of length throat. From an experimental design 24 it was obtained that all variables studied and the gas velocity´s interaction with liquid flow and with length throat had influence over the collection efficiency. For 2,21 μm particles the efficience range was from 53,8 to 86,8% while for 9,06 μm particles it was from 53,4 to 96,5%. The results´ analysis showed that as bigger the gas velocity and the liquid flow are, higher the efficience gets. It happens because there are more quantity of washing liquid to be atomized with the liquid flow increase. This atomization gets better with high gas velocities taxes. Another point observed was that for longer length throat and higher gas velocity, the collection efficiency grows. What occurs here is that the particles´s residence time inside the throat was bigger for 132 mm length throat than for 99 mm. And more time, a gas acceleration resulted on better jet´s atomization. The study of different particles sizes showed that 9,06 μm were removed more efficiently than particles with medium diameter of 2,21 μm. Particles with bigger diameters present more inercia, which facilitates the action of the inercial impaction, the collection mechanism that predominates in Venturi scrubbers. The jet penetration was another parameter analysed and it represented the expected behavior: as bigger the liquid flow gets and lower the gas velocity, higher was the jet penetration length. The experimental results of global collection efficiency were compared with theorical models like JOHNSTONE et al. (1954), CALVERT et al. (1972) and modified CALVERT (RIBEIRO, 2005). CALVERT et al. and modified CALVERT models overestimated the values of dust collection efficiency and although JOHSNTONE et al.´s model has underestimated those values, it was the one that better fitted the experimental results, because it showed that the collection efficiency was higher for highs gas velocities.