Fly Ash Purification Composition for Flue Gas Treatment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current flue gas purification solutions are complex and often utilize hazardous components, necessitating a more sophisticated and environmentally friendly approach to effectively manage industrial emissions.

Innovation Solution

A purification composition comprising 50-60% ash and 40-50% liquid, with the ash being fly ash from power plants, is used to purify flue gas, where contaminants are removed and the ash is recycled, and the liquid can include water or limewater, with temperature and mixing adjustments to optimize the composition.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional purification solutions are used, then flue gas can be purified, but the solutions become complex and require hazardous components

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepurification effectivenessVSAvoidsolution complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts and utilizes fly ash, a waste product from power plant combustion, as the active purification agent. By taking out this previously discarded material and applying it to flue gas treatment, the solution simplifies the purification system while maintaining effectiveness, eliminating the need for complex multi-component conventional solutions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The purification composition serves itself by using fly ash (a waste product) as the active ingredient. The ash naturally absorbs contaminants from flue gas without requiring additional hazardous chemicals or complex processing systems, making the solution both simple and self-sufficient

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If conventional purification solutions are used, then flue gas can be purified, but hazardous components are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepurification effectivenessVSAvoidhazardous chemicals
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The invention converts fly ash, a harmful waste product from combustion processes, into a beneficial purification agent. This waste material naturally captures other harmful contaminants from flue gas, transforming a pollutant into a solution that eliminates multiple harmful substances simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Solution Approach 2:

The purification composition uses inexpensive fly ash as the active ingredient, replacing costly and hazardous chemical reagents. The composition can be readily prepared and applied without requiring expensive specialized materials, making purification accessible and environmentally safe

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

3Object-affected harmful factors

If fly ash is recycled into purification composition, then environmental friendliness improves, but production process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental impactVSAvoidproduction simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The production process is segmented into simple, discrete steps: mixing fly ash with water or limewater in specific proportions (50-60% ash, 40-50% liquid), adjusting temperature to 10-30°C, and allowing settling. This segmentation makes the recycling process manageable and straightforward despite the environmental benefits

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Reliability

If temperature and mixing adjustments are made to optimize composition, then purification effectiveness improves, but process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepurification effectivenessVSAvoidprocess complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention optimizes purification by adjusting key parameters: maintaining temperature between 10-30°C, using specific ash-to-liquid ratios (50-60% ash, 40-50% liquid), and allowing adequate settling time. These parameter changes enhance effectiveness while keeping the process itself relatively simple and易于操作

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This solution provides a simple and effective method for recycling fly ash, reducing contaminants, and efficiently purifying flue gas, while avoiding hazardous chemicals, thus meeting stringent emission regulations.

Implementation Method 1

combining the purification composition and vapour to form a chute, adding the chute to the flue gas

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAbsorption: Absorption (physical)

Implementation Method 2

combining the ash and liquid wherein an amount of the liquid is based on the amount of the ash, adjusting a temperature of the combination of the ash and the liquid by adjusting a temperature of the liquid and mixing the ash and the liquid

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMixing: Stirring

Implementation Method 3

combining the purification composition and vapour to form a chute

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCondensation: Condensation

Data Source

PatentUS11813568B2Purification composition, method for producing purification composition and method for purifying flue gas by purification composition
Publication Date: 2023.11.14 KLEENER POWER SOLUTIONS OY
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AI summary

A purification composition, comprising 50-60% by weight of ash and 40-50% by weight of liquid. A method for producing the purification composition, comprising: measuring an amount of ash, combining the ash and liquid, wherein an amount of the liquid is based on the amount of the ash, adjusting a temperature of the combination of the ash and the liquid by adjusting a temperature of the liquid and mixing the ash and the liquid. A method for purifying a flue gas by the purification composition, comprising: combining the purification composition and vapour to form a chute, adding the chute to the flue gas, adding the purification composition to the flue gas and over-pressuring the flue gas and adding more of the purification composition to the flue gas and under-pressuring the flue gas.