The application discloses a device and a method for removing
elemental mercury by electric explosion of
metal wires, which is composed of a wire supply mechanism, a wire clamping cylinder, a wire pulling cylinder, a positive high-
voltage electrode, a negative high-
voltage electrode, a reaction cavity, a high-
voltage power supply, a high-voltage
capacitor and a controller. The high-voltage power supply charges the high-voltage
capacitor, the wire pulling cylinder pulls the
metal wire from the wire supply mechanism into the reaction cavity, the wire clamping cylinder fixes the
metal wire, the positive high-voltage
electrode and the negative high-voltage
electrode contact the metal wire, the high-voltage
capacitor discharges the metal wire through the positive high-voltage electrode and the negative high-voltage electrode,
high voltage and large current make the metal wire heat, melt, vaporize, explode and form iron vapor mist, the iron vapor mist condenses into nano-
powder mist area of iron-based compounds such as nano-iron particles and nano-
iron oxide particles in the
waste gas, and the
elemental mercury in the
waste gas is removed after the iron-based compound nano-
powder particles in the mist area fully contact with the
elemental mercury.