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Wet and Dry Scrubbing

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Air Pollution Control Engineering

Part of the book series: Handbook of Environmental Engineering ((HEE,volume 1))

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The scrubbing process is a unit operation in which one or more components of a gas stream are selectively absorbed into an absorbent. The term “scrubbing” is used interchangeably with “absorption” when describing this process. In wet scrubbing, water is the most common choice of absorbent liquor. In special cases, another relatively nonvolatile liquid may be used as the absorbent. In dry scrubbing, a dry powder or semidry slurry are also possible absorbents, depending on the requirements of a given situation.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Zorex Corporation, Newtonville, NY, USA

    Lawrence K. Wang PhD, PE, DEE

  2. Lenox Institute of Water Technology, Lenox, MA, USA

    Lawrence K. Wang PhD, PE, DEE

  3. Monsanto Company (Retired), St. Louis, MO, USA

    Norman C. Pereira PhD

  4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Yung-Tse Hung PhD, PE, DEE

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Wang, L.K., Taricska, J.R., Hung, YT., Eldridge, J.E., Li, K.H. (2004). Wet and Dry Scrubbing. In: Wang, L.K., Pereira, N.C., Hung, YT. (eds) Air Pollution Control Engineering. Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol 1. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-778-9_5

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