Investigation on a Novel Seawater Exhaust Gas Cleaning System Applied for SOx Emissions Reduction of Marine Diesel Engine

2014 ◽  
Vol 1010-1012 ◽  
pp. 765-771
Author(s):  
Xiao Chun Wu ◽  
Zhong Jun Wang

The control and regulation of SOx emissions have become a global urgent problem for the environment protection. In the field of ocean and marine engineering, The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has formally passed the amendment of MARPOL 73/78 Annex VI in 2008 that clarified the deadline of requirements on SOx emissions limit. A limitation of 3.5 %mm is strictly requested during 2012 to 2020. Hence the SOx emissions of marine diesel engines faces unprecedented challenges while effective control and regulation systems on the SOx emissions reduction are scarce in the existing ships. To meet the IMO's requirements, this paper has presented a novel seawater exhaust gas cleaning (EGC) system for the SOx emissions reduction of marine diesel engines. The post-combustion desulfurization technology was employed in the EGC system. The carbon ion and hydrogen ion contained in the seawater have been introduced into the EGC system to participant the reaction of desulfurization. The seawater EGC system has already been established in a real ship. Experiments have been carried out with the established seawater EGC system to comparatively analyze SOX emissions characteristics when burning different oil types, including heavy oil and light oil. The experiment results show that the newly established seawater EGC system can achieve satisfactory performance with a desulfurization efficiency of 88%. More important, the standard of the SOX emission limitation set by IMO has been met by using the proposed EGC system.

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 850
Author(s):  
Younghyun Ryu ◽  
Taewoo Kim ◽  
Jungsik Kim ◽  
Jeonggil Nam

Global air pollution regulations are becoming stricter for large diesel engines powering automobiles and ships. In the automotive sector, Euro 4 regulations came into force in January 2013 in accordance with European Union (EU) emission standards for heavy-duty diesel engines and are based on steady-state testing. In the marine sector, the International Maritime Organization(IMO) Maritime Environment Protection Committee(MEPC) is a group of experts who discuss all problems related to the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships, such as efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances and greenhouse gas emissions. To reduce the harmful emissions from marine diesel engines, a wet-type exhaust gas cleaning system was developed in this study. As a test, seawater, electrolyzed water, and sodium hydroxide were sequentially injected into the exhaust gas. SO2 was reduced by 98.7–99.6% with seawater injection, NOx by 43.2–48.9% with electrolyzed water injection, and CO2 by 28.0–33.3% with sodium hydroxide injection.


Author(s):  
Jun Sawada ◽  
Yoshihiko Matsui ◽  
Karol Hensel ◽  
Ippei Koyamoto ◽  
Kazunori Takashima ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 932 ◽  
pp. 124-128
Author(s):  
Wei Feng Liu ◽  
Xue Wei Li ◽  
Wen Bo Dong ◽  
Le Bo ◽  
Yi Min Zhu ◽  
...  

Poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) produced by Bacillus pumilus C2 was employed to remove heavy metals from sewage of magnesium - based exhaust gas cleaning system (Mg-EGCS). The components of heavy metals in the sewage were detailed analyzed. On the base of the analytical results, the effects of addition amount of γ-PGA, adsorption time, temperature and NaCl concentration on the removal efficiency of typical heavy metals were further investigated. The optimal removal rates of heavy metals were obtained at the γ-PGA dosage of 9 g/L and adsorption duration of 30 min. The γ-PGA had excellent tolerance for high temperatures up to 80°C and exhibited steady heavy metal removal efficiency in NaCl concentrations of 0 – 24%. Under the optimal conditions, the removal rates of Zn, Cr, V, Cd, Pb and Ni by γ-PGA in a real sewage of Mg-EGCS achieved 53.6%, 100%, 49.2%, 72.7%, 33.7% and 39.9% respectively.


2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-331
Author(s):  
Takashi Inui ◽  
Masaya Tabaru ◽  
Yukio Aoki ◽  
Akinori Zukeran

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.36) ◽  
pp. 920
Author(s):  
Byshov N.V ◽  
Bachurin A.N ◽  
Bogdanchikov I.Yu ◽  
Oleynik D.O ◽  
Yakunin Yu.V. ◽  
...  

The aim of the article is to develop a method and a device for reducing the toxicity of exhaust gases of diesel engines and reducing noise taking into account the current mode of operation of the engine. This is done with the help of installing a liquid catalyst (LC) into the exhaust system, ensuring the processes of trapping, chemical bonding and neutralization of toxic components and soot particles in the aerosol chamber while the vortex flow is being processed by a neutralizing solution supplied under pressure. Then the flow is divided into phases and toxic components and soot are separated in the centrifugal swirl drop separator (SDS).The developed and tested design of an exhaust gas cleaning device installed instead of the standard D-120 engine exhaust system and an automated cleaning process control system make it possible to reduce the toxicity of exhaust gases (EG): nitrogen oxides by 40 %, hydrocarbons by 43 % and soot by 70 %. The noise level of its work in enclosed spaces was reduced by 16–22 %. The device also had low gas-dynamic resistance.The investigation methodology is based on the use of modern methods and measuring devices. Exhaust gas tester META “Autotest CO – CH – CO2 – O2 – λ – NOx” was used to measure the toxicity of exhaust gases. To measure smoking at the exhaust of the diesel engine, the opacity meter META-01MP was used. The gas flow velocity was measured with ATT-1004 thermo-anemometer, the noise level of the tractor was recorded with noise and vibration meter VSHV–003–M2, and the fuel consumption with SIRT-1 meter.Theoretical studies were carried out on the basis of the laws of gas dynamics, the modern theory of statistical analysis, and experiment planning techniques. When developing an experimental LC model, dependencies were obtained, which allow to achieve the optimal design and technological parameters of the wet cleaning system for diesel exhaust gases.The optimization of the design parameters and the processing of experimental data were carried out with the help of modern software using the methods of mathematical statistics using computers.The current methods of reducing the toxicity of engines consist primarily in improving the design of engines, in order to influence the nature of the working process, the use of alternative fuels and additives, exhaust gas recirculation, as well as installing various types of exhaust gas catalytic systems. Measures related to the introduction of constructive changes in engines require some major restructuring of the industry, which is difficult to achieve in modern conditions. Alternative fuels have not yet been widely used in agriculture. Therefore, today the most effective and acceptable means of achieving environmental standards is the installation of various mobile catalysts in the exhaust system, as well as devices for trapping soot particles. The use of this exhaust gas cleaning system for diesel engines functioning in enclosed spaces can significantly improve the working conditions of the personnel and have a slight effect on the power and fuel-economic performance of the power unit, reducing the power of the D-120 engine of the T-30 tractor equipped with an upgraded exhaust system when taking external speed characteristics averaged 1.6 %, the torque was 1.5 % and the increase in specific fuel consumption was 1.8 %.In this paper we used materials from scientific publications indexed by bibliographic abstract databases of Scopus and Web of Science.   


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