HEAT-STABLE SALT REMOVING SYSTEM, CARBON DIOXIDE RECOVERING SYSTEM AND HEAT-STABLE SALT REMOVING METHOD

• US 20150209724A1
• Filed: 12/05/2014
• Published: 07/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: OGAWA, Takashi, Kato, Yasuhiro, Kitamura, Hideo
• Application Number:
  US14/561,317
• Publication Number:
  US 20150209724A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2252/204 Amines
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2257/302 Sulfur oxides
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2257/504 Carbon dioxide
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2258/0283 Flue gases
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/1425 Regeneration of liquid absorbents
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/1475 Removing carbon dioxide
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/1481 Removing sulfur dioxide or sulfur trioxide
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/50 Sulfur oxides B01D53/60 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/507 by treating the gases with other liquids
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/56 Nitrogen oxides B01D53/60 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/75 Multi-step processes
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/78 with gas-liquid contact
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/965 including an electrochemical process step
• CPC Class Codes: F23J 15/04 using washing fluids scrubbers for removing solids only F23J15/022
• CPC Class Codes: F23J 2215/50 Carbon dioxide
• CPC Class Codes: F23J 2219/40 Sorption with wet devices, e.g. scrubbers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 50/20 Air quality improvement or preservation, e.g. vehicle emission control or emission reduction by using catalytic converters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02C 20/40 of CO2
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 20/32 Direct CO2 mitigation

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a heat-stable salt removing system comprises a desulfurizing unit that causes a sulfur oxide contained in exhaust gas to be absorbed by at least part of an absorbing liquid circulating through a carbon dioxide recovering system, and that emits the exhaust gas from which the sulfur oxide is removed, the absorbing liquid. A heat-stable salt removing system comprises an anion removing unit that removes an anion from the absorbing liquid obtained after the desulfurizing unit causes the sulfur oxide to be absorbed.

Claims

1. A heat-stable salt removing system comprising:

a desulfurizing unit that causes a sulfur oxide contained in exhaust gas to be absorbed by at least part of an absorbing liquid circulating through a carbon dioxide recovering system, and that emits the exhaust gas from which the sulfur oxide is removed; and

an anion removing unit that removes an anion from the absorbing liquid obtained after the desulfurizing unit causes the sulfur oxide to be absorbed.

2. The heat-stable salt removing system according to claim 1, comprising:

a concentration meter that detects a sulfur oxide concentration in the exhaust gas emitted by the desulfurizing unit;

a passage switching unit that switches a passage between a first passage and a second passage, the first passage being a passage through which the absorbing liquid is emitted from the desulfurizing unit and is supplied to the desulfurizing unit again, the second passage being a passage through which the absorbing liquid is emitted from the desulfurizing unit and is supplied to the anion removing unit; and

a controller that controls the passage switching unit based on the sulfur oxide concentration detected by the concentration meter,

wherein the controller controls the passage switching unit such that the passage switching unit maintains the first passage when the sulfur oxide concentration detected by the concentration meter is a predetermined concentration or less, and switches from the first passage to the second passage when the sulfur oxide concentration detected by the concentration meter exceeds the predetermined concentration.

3. The heat-stable salt removing system according to claim 1,

wherein the anion removing unit is an electrodialyzer.

4. The heat-stable salt removing system according to claim 3,

wherein the electrodialyzer comprises:

a negative electrode negatively charged;

a positive electrode positively charged;

a first cation-exchange membrane to which a negative electric charge is applied by the negative electrode;

a first anion-exchange membrane that configures a first base chamber with the first cation-exchange membrane;

a second anion-exchange membrane that configures a desalting chamber with the first anion-exchange membrane, the desalting chamber being a chamber to which the absorbing liquid after desulfurization of flue gas by the desulfurizing unit is supplied;

a second cation-exchange membrane that configures a waste liquid chamber with the second anion-exchange membrane; and

a third anion-exchange membrane to which a positive electric charge is applied by the positive electrode, and that configures a second base chamber with the second cation-exchange membrane.

5. The heat-stable salt removing system according to claim 4,

wherein the absorbing liquid contains an amine that is positively charged.

6. The heat-stable salt removing system according to claim 5,

wherein the amine is a tertiary amine.

7. The heat-stable salt removing system according to claim 4,

wherein the anion removing unit emits a waste liquid that contains the removed anion, and

the heat-stable salt removing system further comprises a regenerating unit that regenerates sodium hydroxide by mixing a sodium salt contained in the waste liquid emitted by the anion removing unit, with a hydroxide, and that supplies a solution containing the regenerated sodium hydroxide to the anion removing unit.

8. The heat-stable salt removing system according to claim 1,

wherein the anion removing unit is a diffusion dialyzer.

9. The heat-stable salt removing system according to claim 1,

wherein the anion removing unit is an anion-exchange resin.

10. The heat-stable salt removing system according to claim 1, further comprising

a precipitation tank that precipitates and separates a sulfate ion by mixing the absorbing liquid after desulfurization of flue gas by the desulfurizing unit, with a hydroxide, before the anion removing unit removes the anion.

11. A carbon dioxide recovering system comprising:

a desulfurizing unit that causes a sulfur oxide contained in exhaust gas to be absorbed by an absorbing liquid, and that emits the exhaust gas from which the sulfur oxide is removed;

an absorbing tower that causes carbon dioxide contained in the exhaust gas emitted from the desulfurizing unit to be absorbed by an absorbing liquid, and that emits the absorbing liquid containing the carbon dioxide;

a regenerating tower to which the absorbing liquid emitted from the absorbing tower is supplied, that removes carbon dioxide gas containing steam, from the absorbing liquid, and that regenerates and emits the absorbing liquid;

an absorbing-liquid storing tank that stores the absorbing liquid emitted by the regenerating tower; and

an anion removing unit that removes an anion from the absorbing liquid obtained after the desulfurizing unit causes the sulfur oxide to be absorbed, and that supplies the absorbing liquid after the anion removal, to the absorbing-liquid storing tank,

wherein the desulfurizing unit acquires at least part of the absorbing liquid that is emitted from the absorbing-liquid storing tank and is supplied to the absorbing tower.

12. A heat-stable salt removing method comprising:

causing a sulfur oxide contained in an exhaust gas to be absorbed by at least part of an absorbing liquid, the absorbing liquid circulating through a carbon dioxide recovering system; and

removing an anion from the absorbing liquid that absorbs the sulfur oxide.