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COMBINED NOX/SOX CONTROL USING A SINGLE LIQUID INJECTION SYSTEM

Award Information
Agency: Department of Energy
Branch: N/A
Contract: N/A
Agency Tracking Number: 14477
Amount: $49,959.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 1991
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
20 New England Business Center
Andover, MA 01810
United States
DUNS: N/A
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Dr Girard A Simon
 Principal Investigator
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Business Contact
Phone: (508) 689-0003
Research Institution
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Abstract

DUAL CONTROL OF NITROGEN OXIDES (NOX) AND SULFUR OXIDES (SOX) IN A HOT GAS (1,100 TO 1,300 K) STREAM WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY COMBINING A KNOWN WATER SOLUBLE NOX CONTROL AGENT (UREA) WITH THE PROMISING WATER SOLUBLE SOX CONTROL AGENT CALCIUM MAGNESIUM ACETATE (CMA). A SINGLE LIQUID SPRAY SYSTEM MAY BE CAPABLE OF ACHIEVING 90% UTILIZATION OF BOTH AGENTS WITHIN A 2-SECOND RESIDENCE TIME. PROOF-OF-CONCEPT EXPERIMENTS ARE BEING CONDUCTED IN PHASE I. THESE EXPERIMENTS FOCUS ON THE EVALUATION OF ANY POSSIBLE POISONING OF UREA BY CMA AND ON THE SUBSEQUENT DEMONSTRATION OF SIMULTANEOUS NOX AND SOX REMOVAL. PROCESS OPTIMIZATION THROUGH VARIATIONS IN THE WATER/UREA/CMA MOLAR RATIOS, ATOMIZATION PROCESS, AND AIR-ASSISTED MIXING/ATOMIZATION IS DEFERRED UNTIL PHASE II AND PHASE III, WHEN A COMMERCIAL PARTNER WILL BE IDENTIFIED FOR FULL SCALE TESTS AND COMMERCIALIZATION IN THE LATER PHASES.

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