power plant?

Question

anyone know what a scrubber is and what it does in a power plant?

Answer 1

Coutrney,
A (fossil burning) power plant without scrubbers sends its exhaust gases through precipitators, which cleans most all of the solids from the exhaust, then to the smoke stacks. There is still some pollutants that cannot be removed, because they are to small. If the power plant has scrubbers the exhaust goes through a extra cleaning cycle. This is placed after the precipitators and then into the stack. The results are a much cleaner exhaust. Scrubber systems are very expensive to build and very expensive to maintain, thats why power company's are reluctant to install them.
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Answer 2

It is a devise that takes the pollution ( dust, carbon ,sulfur ,etc.) out of the smoke. This can be an electronic polarization devise coupled with a water bath. It works on the principle of positive and negative charges, simple in principle but complicated in design and installation. Because of the cost and operational problems Power companies and other polution producing facilities
will not consider installation.

Answer 3

It is uses to remove some pollutants from de smoke of the power plant. I think it uses chemical susbsatnce to do this.

Answer 4

a scrubber washes the smoke before it enters the smoke stack

Answer 5

They have fine sprinklers up the chimney the exhaust goes up through the water and that washes out most of the pollution is soluble in water. Leaves almost nothing there except steam.