조태준
(Taejun Cho)
1
김태수
(Tae-Soo Kim)
2*
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종신회원, 대진대학교 교수
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정회원, 국립한밭대학교 건축공학과 교수
Copyright © The Korea Institute for Structural Maintenance and Inspection
키워드
복합사이클론스크러버, 도로변 오염원 제거, 나사선모양의 가이드베인
Key words
Composite clone scrubber, road pollution reduction system and air blower type spiral guide vane, reuse of rainwater
1. Introduction
1.1 Worldwide Air Pollution Management Market
The most urgent task regarding reducing micro-dust on the roads is “STOP” of spraying
water on the road “day time”. Since the secondary micro dust as by-product, resulting
from combined with sunlight and water, lessen the effect of reducing dust significantly.
The second problem is treating NO$_{x}$, from car and truck. It causes critical health
problems to the human body but not filtered even if flow into DPF.
Fine mode aerosol (PM2.5 or less) divided into a primary generation due to combustion
and a condensation of particles in the atmosphere. It divided into ones that generated
in the condensation. The finer I-mode (nuclei or Aitken) is directly discharged or
a relatively large j-mode, meaning less matured (i.e., a fresh particle) produced
by condensation
(accumulation) means aged particles; these two modes interact through aggregation,
and it grows through condensation of gaseous precursors such as NO$_{x}$, SO$_{2}$,
NH$_{3}$, etc., and is wet and dry deposited. Chemical components of the aerosol taxonomic
micro modes are sulfate, ammonium salt, nitrate, natural and artificial vegetation
organic carbon, elemental carbon (EC), etc., and the coarse mode component related
to (KECO2015-ER03-14, 2015)(2).
Meanwhile this black (carbon) market is growing in high speed, however world widely
8% increasing death ratio due to air pollution, which needs the most urgent research
and policy. The forecast for growth of 5.2% during 2014-2019 (BCC, 2015)(3), but BCC Research 2017, which shows more than double the expected growth rate of
64 trillion won since 2015.China invested 288 trillion-won March 2014, averagely 32
percent decrease in urban fine dust concentration over four years (KECO2015-ER03-14,
2015)(2).
Beijing has allocated $120 billion (128 trillion won) to improve air quality, bans
new thermal power plants, controlling the number of vehicles and reducing steel production
capacity, but still 9 times the air pollution level based on WHO (BCC, 2015)(3). In Japan, Nozzle-type road water spray fine dust reduction (350 m section between
the Japanese National Assembly and the National Assembly Hall).
Europe reduced average AEI (Air Environmental Index) of PM2.5 to 20% by 2020. France
utilize rainwater on roadside as a waste cleaning facility (Using Heavy Water Supply
Facility in Roadside). Finally, the United States, the United Kingdom and Taiwan,
etc.). Most of the surveys have conducted on road cleaning, mainly water-cleaning
vehicles. They did significant jobs to reduce micro-dust; however, still is it the
largest cause of death in the world (BCC, 2015)(3).
1.2 Constraints for direction of the scrubber
The reason for a design of a modified Day-to-Night Spraying System in a modified method
based on the side effects of the pollution. To remove the effect according to the
temperature and (solar) luminance, it can generate smog, according to the increase
of the solar temperature and luminance with "the second level fine dust generation"
in the daytime application of the sprinkling cleaning removal method. Which increased
density of NO$_{2}$ nitrogen dioxide and ozone and HCHO formaldehyde (smog) by NO$_{x}$
nitrogen oxide and SO$_{x}$ sulfur oxide in exhaust gas; see NO$_{2}$ nitric oxide
(NO$_{x}$: nitric oxide, NO plus nitrogen dioxide, NO$_{2}$) (Shin, 1996)(4).
Therefore, the following shape of scrubber and schedule of watering are proposed:
1) Direct road injection only at night when the concentration of fine dust is getting
worse.
2) In the daytime, the internal circulation type cleaning
collection performed in the circulation type cyclone scrubber.
2. The goal of research
2.1 The objectives and scope
The final goal of this research is development of composite cyclone structure utilizing
reserved water in order to reduce micro dust, range from 2.5 nm to 10 nm size.
For this purpose, we develop a revised cyclone scrubber, in which having guided vane
and mesh type filter. Since sprayed water clean vane and mesh type metal filter, the
maintenance period and cost would be much cheaper.
In addition to that, regarding target installation and maintenance cost, over 60%
reduction in the investment costs compared to existing road pollution reduction measures.
In terms of quantitative estimation, the micros dust would collect over 90% for CO,
CO$_{2}$, PM, SO$_{x}$, and NO$_{x}$, in the developed 30 meter spacing columns utilizing
20 m$^{3}$ of circulating water per day. It may notable that the range of working
form -20⁰C to 50⁰C due to the lessen potential of water, resultantly working 4 seasons,
different with other conventional ones.
In general, if compared the gas and water in the same direction show less performance
of collecting dust than in the opposite direction between dust and water, already
proved in many experiments. Therefore, gravity direction (downward) spraying collects
a normal efficiency Test. Regarding our spiral guide vane may show best performance,
an air blower type vane with an injection pressure collecting efficiency due to their
45-degree angle spraying collision with vanes.
2.2 Comparison with conventional patents
There is at least one type of similar technology for reducing micro-dust via sprayed
water. This gadget contains several similarities in terms of 1) Spraying water, 2)
Providing water for cleaning and 3) inlet gas to be cleaned.
However, the following progressive differences have proved in our advanced cyclone
system.
1) The proposed system could work on the roadside or in the basement as a vertical
type and horizontal type.
2) The proposed system could work in the subway in a horizontal type.
3) Collecting droplet shows the maximum ratio when they meet directly (0 degree),
which is 141% larger pressure value than the conventional one in which water flow
upper and lower directions only.
4) The proposed patent utilizes circulating rainy water and well water, which are
not used in general.
5) In fact, the hydrophilic between vane and water is not so high; hence, we add metal
filter, in which dust reduced 10% more while passing through (Fig. 1). The conventional dust remover use guided vanes as well.
2.3 Process of development for composite cyclone scrubber
Two main functions of collecting micro-dust have suggested shown in Fig. (1). The contaminated gas goes in the scrubber due to the fan in outlet. Over 60% of
the gas meets with three fans, which combined with water and drop to the reservoir.
The reserved water pumped and move into the scrubber again. After passing the guided
fans, the approximately 25% of remain gas meet with metal filter. Resultantly, over
85% contaminated gas changed to clean gas, which process will start cyclically when
contaminated water drained and clean water added from waterworks, rainwater or inlet
well.
Fig. 1. Connected members of Model 1
Fig. 2. The dimension of outlet fan
Therefore, the water and the sprayed metal filters are passed through the fine dust
flowed in through the blower and the scrubber type cleaning device washing dust and
separates water and air. The next room facility system is necessary for separating
clean gas and contaminated water. The key design variables might be
1) The pores of metal filter
2) Optimal space flow shape
3) Flow velocity and air volume of fine dust
4) The length and diameter of the cleaning device
5) Comparison of air vortex and cleaning degree.
Fig. 3. Connected members of Model 1
Fig. 4. The dimension of outlet fan
14 inch CF-14D Guided vanes attached as the first circling filter, which are rotated
by sprayed water and out let fan. The second filters are two metal filters cleaned
by the sprayed water as well. Dimensions of outlet filter and the system of model
is illustrated in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4. In this system, the following variables are considered.
The structure and location of duct do not prevent flow of water
Air duct should be filtered
Inlet emissions, e.g.CO, CO$_{2}$, NO$_{x}$, and PM, meet on the vane with spraying
water in a short duration
After meeting, contaminated air should have to flow into reserved water tanks via
bent.
While the above 1-4) processes, capacity of pump is important, as to be selected optimum
one.
2.4. Capacity of pump
To maximize cleaning effect, the process from suction with pump to spraying to vane
directly related with reduction of energy. Assembled vane, fan, circular body and
outlet fan as presented in Fig. (5).
2.4.1 Inlet Emissions & Fan
- Casing: 100cm x 40cm x 100cm= 400,000cm$^{3}$ (Initial value)
- Massive flow rate
- Mean velocity into duct;
- Quantity of the fan:
2.4.2 Scrubber Pump
- Let Well=1, location of sprayed by a nozzle in the scrubber as 2, then
- $\left.\left(p_{1} \cong p_{2} p_{1} \cong p_{2}\right), v_{1} \cong 0 v_{1} \cong
0\right)$
$$\begin{array}{c}
p_{1}=p_{2}=p_{a t m} \\
p_{1}=p_{2}=p_{a t m}, z_{1}=z_{2} z_{1}=z_{2} \\
v_{1} \ll v_{2}\left(v_{1} \approx 0\right) v_{1} \ll v_{2}\left(v_{1} \approx 0\right)
\end{array}$$
Let Reserved water tank ①, Scrubber: location of spraying via nozzle= ②,
p1≈p2 (Assumed as atmospheric pressure), v1 is zero on the free water surface v1≈0
- Provided water Q = 0.0015m/s, and diameter of nozzle is 1cm
Hence, the minimum pump quantity (Efficiency of the pump, =0.7, assumed)=
Therefore, when water quantity Q = 0.0015m/s, the quantity of the pump is calculated
as 0.795KW. Hence we selected the pump as 1.5KW, considering mechanical energy loss.
3. Conclusion
As illustrated in Figs. 6 to 9, we have changed the filtering conditions as water, vanes and metal filter (Fig. 7), water with vane and metal filter (Fig. 8), and no filters (Fig. 9). As the results presented in Table 1, the water, vanes and metal filter case showed largest filtering over 10 PM of micro-dust
with 87% cleaned during 20 minutes in 10 times of tests.
Due to the cyclic function of the proposed scrubber, the accumulated gas would show
higher values for the removing micro-dust in the outlet air.
Table 1. Collected micro-dust (scale;100/0.01g)
|
Base Weight
|
Water with Filter
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Water only
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Sprayed Carbon
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Measured (g)
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0.81
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1.16
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1.78
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3.47
|
Collected Carbon (g)
|
NA
|
0.35
|
0.97
|
2.66
|
Cleaned (%)
|
NA
|
86.5
|
63.5
|
NA
|
17,000 people are dead by the contaminated air per year (6). This dirty air kills people by cancer as well. For problem solving the first proposed
water spray nozzle method is to compensate for the disadvantage of rapid deducting
effect due to the increase of secondary fine dust sulfur dioxide (SO$_{2}$), nitric
oxide (NO$_{x}$: nitric oxide, NO plus nitrogen dioxide, and NO$_{2}$ in daytime (sunrise-
sunset time: 12 hours). The additional plan change of the helix vane type cyclone
chamber is raised to the average 70% (PM10: 95%, PM2.5: 45%) of the cleaning collection
efficiency.
Fig. 6. Water and filter (1.16g).
Fig. 7. Water only (1.78g).
Fig. 8. Sprayed Carbon (3.47g).
In order to solve current significant challenges of air pollution of roads, four patents
have submitted to compose the composite cyclone scrubber system, which will provide
cyclic water for cost efficiency (Cho et al., 2017(a), (2019)(b))(7,8). The proposed structural system is composed of integrated composite cyclone scrubber
structure having reserved rainwater or inlet well, hence additional cost benefit comes.
The preliminary evaluations of the developed design make it possible to reduce not
only cheaper maintenance budget due to the characteristic water spraying but the cost
of water comes from mainly rain and underground. The calculated results are possible
to be designed over 85% reduced micro dust results. However, the optimum nozzle size
and spraying angle with pressure are sensitively dependent with angle of attached
guided vanes and the number of metal filters, which needs additional experiments.
Acknowledgement
This work was supported by Daejin University Research Grants in 2020.
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