US 12,030,012 B2
Scrubber apparatus for geothermal power generation
Kuniyuki Takahashi, Hino (JP); and Taichiro Kato, Musashino (JP)
Assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on May 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/737,957.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-083942 (JP), filed on May 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0370949 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B01D 45/16 (2006.01); B01D 47/06 (2006.01); B01D 50/40 (2022.01)
CPC B01D 50/40 (2022.01) [B01D 45/16 (2013.01); B01D 47/06 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A scrubber apparatus for geothermal power generation configured to treat gas from geothermal power generation equipment to supply a power generation apparatus with the treated gas, the scrubber apparatus for geothermal power generation comprising:
a wet-type cyclone scrubber unit that has a reaction tower into which the gas is introduced and a liquid spray unit for spraying liquid into the reaction tower and that is configured to treat the gas with the liquid;
a gas derivation unit connected to the wet-type cyclone scrubber unit and configured to derive the gas to the power generation apparatus;
a swirling unit that is arranged farther downstream than the liquid spray unit in a gas flow channel including the wet-type cyclone scrubber unit and the gas derivation unit and that is configured to swirl the gas in a predetermined swirling direction; and
a plurality of ejection units located in the liquid spray unit, wherein the plurality of ejection units eject liquid into the reaction tower in opposite directions to promote swirling in the liquid spray unit, and
wherein the gas travels downstream inside the reaction tower while swirling in the liquid spray unit in the predetermined swirling direction.