The method of research of efficiency of clearing of blast furnace gas in the hollow nozzle straight-through scrubber

The wet method of cleaning the blast furnace gas from the particles of grate dust is one of the most common. The hollow nozzle scrubber is the device for wet cleaning of blast furnace gas in which the cleaning of blast furnace gas is carried out due to the interaction of particles of grate dust with droplets of dispersed technical water. The principle of cleaning the blast furnace gas in the hollow nozzle scrubber is based on the inertial mechanism of collision of grate dust particles with droplets of dispersed process water. After the particles are wetted, stick together and fall out of the flow of the cleaned gas under the influence of gravity. In this paper, we propose a method for calculating the efficiency of blast furnace gas purification in a hollow nozzle straight-through scrubber, which is based on the division of the volume of this gas purification apparatus into even sections. Because the trajectory of the droplet in the blast furnace gas flow in the hollow nozzle scrubber has a parabolic shape, radial component of the absolute velocity of the droplet s taken into account in this technique to determine the efficiency of catching dust particles. The correction factor in the expression for determining the fractional efficiency coefficient of the blast furnace gas purification from the grate dust determines the presence of «dead zones» when the dusty gas is irrigated with technical water sprayed by involute injectors. In addition, the presented method takes into account the increase in the efficiency of cleaning the blast furnace gas due to the process of condensation of water vapor from the flow of dusty gas in the lower part of the hollow nozzle scrubber.