Chemical Engineering and Processing

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

PVC dust removal from the air by a new dynamical scrubber
S. Zarei∗, E. Jamshidi, A. Afshar Ebrahimi
Department of Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Petrochemical Center of Excellency, Tehran 15875-4413, Iran
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Article history:
Received 22 October 2009
Received in revised form 21 June 2010 Accepted 31 August 2010
Available online 6 September 2010
Keywords:
Dynamical scrubber PVC dust
Fine particle removal

abstract
Removal of the poly vinyl chloride (PVC) dust particles by a new dynamical scrubber in a PVC manu- facturing plant is presented in this work. The effects of inlet air flow rate (containing PVC particles) and water flow rate (the physical absorber of particles) on the PVC dust removal efficiency were investigated. The size of the PVC particles which have been treated in this study was ranging from 0.5 up to 20