Several embodiments of the present technology are directed to the removal of one or more air pollutants using cooling and/or calcium-containing particles. In some embodiments, a method for removing air pollutants comprises flowing a gas stream having calcium-containing particles and one or more of mercury or hydrochloric acid molecules, and cooling the gas stream, thereby causing at least a portion of the calcium-containing particles to adsorb to the mercury and/or hydrochloric acid molecules in the gas stream. The method can further comprise, after cooling the gas stream, filtering the gas stream to remove at least a portion of the calcium-containing particles having adsorbed mercury and hydrochloric acid.

The invention relates to a composition for the purification of flue gas containing 1 to 99 wt. % of a powder of a sodium salt of carbonic acid and 1 to 99 wt. % of a powder of an absorptive material, wherein the powder of an absorptive material has a specific pore volume that is equal to or greater than 0.1 cm.sup.3/g. The invention also relates to a process for dry flue gas purification and the use of an absorptive material to improve the flowability and/or storability and/or HF absorptivity of a sodium salt of carbonic acid.

A gas laser apparatus may include: a laser chamber connected through a first control valve to a first laser gas supply source that supplies a first laser gas containing a halogen gas and connected through a second control valve to a second laser gas supply source that supplies a second laser gas having a lower halogen gas concentration than the first laser gas; a purification column that removes at least a part of the halogen gas and a halogen compound from at least a part of a gas exhausted from the laser chamber; a booster pump, connected through a third control valve to the laser chamber, which raises a pressure of a gas having passed through the purification column to a gas pressure that is higher than an operating gas pressure of the laser chamber; and a controller that calculates, on a basis of a first amount of a gas supplied from the booster pump through the third control valve to the laser chamber, a second amount of the first laser gas that is to be supplied to the laser chamber and controls the first control valve on a basis of a result of the calculation of the second amount.

The invention relates to a composition for the purification of flue gas containing 35 to 99 wt. % of a powder of an alkali metal salt of carbonic acid and 1 to 65 wt. % of a powder of an absorptive material, wherein the powder of an absorptive material has a specific pore volume that is equal to or greater than 0.1 cm.sup.3/g. The invention also relates to a process for dry flue gas purification and the use of an absorptive material to improve the flowability and/or storability and/or HF absorptivity of an alkali metal salt of carbonic acid.

A device for treating a gas laden with pollutants, includes at least one adsorption module for adsorbing the pollutants, which is utilized in an adsorption apparatus. The adsorption module includes at least one electrically conductive layer of an activated carbon fiber mat, an electric current circuit for heating the activated carbon fiber mat for the desorption of the adsorbed pollutants, and distributing conduit which is routed into the center of the adsorption module and has outlet openings for a flush gas for inertizing and rinsing the activated carbon fiber mat.

The present invention is related to a method for the removal of noxious components from a gas stream wherein an absorbent composition comprising one or more double salts is contacted with said gas stream at a temperature comprised between 100 and 400 C.

Systems and methods for the use of highly reactive hydrated lime (HRH) in circulating dry scrubbers (CDS) to remove sulfur dioxide (SO.sub.2) from the flue gas.

Systems and methods for the use of highly reactive hydrated lime (HRH) in circulating dry scrubbers (CDS) to remove sulfur dioxide (SO.sub.2) from the flue gas.

A vacuum pump with abatement function is used for evacuating a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus. The vacuum pump with abatement function includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which at least one abatement part for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless is attached. The abatement part is selected from a plurality of abatement parts having different treatment types of exhaust gas and/or different treatment amounts of exhaust gas and/or different treatment performances of exhaust gas.

The present invention relates to a capture agent for the treatment of gases, having an active phase that comprises a calcium silicate hydrate of (CaO).sub.x(SiO.sub.2).sub.y(H.sub.2O).sub.z type with a Ca/Si molar ratio between 1.55 and 1.72, preferably between 1.65 and 1,72 and an H.sub.2O/Ca molar ratio between 1 and 1.4, preferably between 1.1 and 1.3, z being between 0.3 and 0.8, the capture agent having a specific surface area greater than 120 m.sup.2/g, preferably greater than 150 m.sup.2/g and particularly preferably greater than 200 m.sup.2/g and a pore volume greater than 0.4 cm.sup.3/g, preferably greater than 0.6 cm.sup.3/g and particularly preferably greater than 0.8 cm.sup.3/g.