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Elimination of air and water pollution by double‐stage scrubber
Author(s) -
Athanassiadis A.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02636322
Subject(s) - scrubber , data scrubbing , environmental science , wet scrubber , heat exchanger , waste management , water cooling , brine , pollution , effluent , environmental engineering , chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering , ecology , organic chemistry , biology
This new scrubbing system has been developed to eliminate entirely air pollution caused by water cooling towers during oil or fat deodorization. It also minimizes water effluent. In industrial application for more than one year, this system is based on the action of two scrubbers placed in series. The first scrubber is a conventional one, whereas the second uses concentrated cooled brine circulating in closed circuit as the condensing medium. A thorough purification of water vapors is thus achieved before the volatiles from the deodorizer enter into the high vacuum bosters. As a practical result of this special scrubbing process, the condensing water of the barometric condensers can be entirely recycled and this water is cooled by means of clean water in a surface heat exchanger requiring minimum maintenance for cleaning.