CE666A

Air Pollution and Its Control

Home Assignment-3
Year: 2018-19 Odd Semester

1. A power plant is burning 2000 tons of coal per day with an ash content of 45% and sulphur
content of 1 percent; assume all sulphur is burnt as SO 2. 85% of ash shows up as fly ash in the
chimney. The following chimney details are given: diameter 2m, exit velocity 15 m/sec,
temperature 120 degoC and stack pressure is 1 atm. Estimate the emission rates of particulate
in Kg/day, mg/m3 (25 deg C, 1 atm) and for SO 2 in terms of Kg/day, mg/m3 (25 degoC 1 atm)
and ppm.

2. Small quantities of NO2 can be formed in combustion exhaust gases by third-order reaction:
2NO+O2→2NO2 (rate constant = k). Assume plug flow conditions and the concentration of
NO at the beginning of the exhaust system be 2000 ppm and initial O 2 concentration be 100
ppm, compute the concentration of NO2 formed for a residence time of 2 sec if the temperature
of the exhaust gases is constant at 800oC.
The reaction rate constant is given by k=1.066 x 10-2 T-2 exp(530/T) ppm-2 min-1

3. Uncontrolled emissions from a 100,000 tpy (tons per year) aluminium plant are 20 kg Ft
(total fluoride i.e. particulate and gaseous) for every ton of aluminium produced. The industry
wishes to install both primary and secondary emission controlled systems to attain an emission
discharge of 1 kg Ft/ t of Al. Additional information:
Gaseous fluoride = 0.4 Ft
Removal efficiency of secondary controlled system(for gaseous and particulate F)= 50%
Removal efficiency of primary controlled system (for gaseous and particulate F) = 98%
The collection efficiency for gaseous and particulate fluoride at hoods varies. If the collection
efficiency for gaseous F is 91%, what should be minimum design collection efficiency for
particulate fluoride (at hood) so that industry meets the emission discharge of 1kg Ft /t of Al?