A gas purification apparatus includes: a housing to which a gas is introduced; a filter portion for removing an impure substance in the gas from the gas, the filter portion being disposed inside the housing; and a gas purification agent for removing a removal target substance in the gas from the gas, the gas purification agent being disposed, inside the housing, on the filter portion or in a space at a downstream side of the filter portion with respect to a flow of the gas.

Systems and Methods to produce a lime hydrate sorbent composition formed of highly reactive lime hydrate (HRH) by adding compounds to the slaking water in a method that would produce a non-HRH, which will typically be a lime hydrate having citric acid reactivity as discussed above of more than ten seconds, to make the non-HRH an HRH, which is having a citric acid reactivity of less than or equal to ten seconds.

A mixer for recirculating ash from solid fuel combustion with hydrated lime and water and to feed the mixture into a desulfurization reactor. The mixer includes a housing having a front wall, two outer vertical sidewalls, a rear wall, a top, and a bottom, the top includes a feed chute configured for the entry and addition of product to the mixer, and the front wall includes an opening for the mixture of product to exit. The mixer also includes a rotatable vertical shaft having an impeller, the impeller having a plurality of blades disposed on the vertical shaft in the same horizontal plane and distributed equidistantly about the circumference of the vertical shaft. The mixer also includes a vertical wall disposed within the housing forming a mixing region and a feeding region that is operably connected to the opening of the front wall.

Systems and methods for generation of lime hydrate compounds and particularly highly reactive hydrated lime (HRH) with a reduced resistivity through the inclusion of a sodium compound generally in the slaking water used in generating the lime hydrate or HRH. The compound may then be used in systems which include a Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP) for SO.sub.2 mitigation without many of the associated problems in ESP performance.

A system and method for recovering sulfur in a copper smelting process includes removing fine dust from high-concentration SO.sub.2 flue gas from a matte smelting furnace, introducing the flue gas into a fluidized bed carbothermic reduction tower to be reduced by a carbon-based reducing agent to obtain reducing gas, passing the reducing gas through a high temperature separator to separate down unsaturated powder coke contained in the reducing gas, and condensing the reducing gas to obtain sulfur. The saturated powder coke entrained in the reducing gas enters a desorption tower to desorb SO.sub.2 gas therein, and the desorbed powder coke enters a fluidized bed sulfur reduction tower to continue to participate in the reduction reaction. Part of the SO.sub.2 gas discharged from the desorption tower is discharged to the fluidized bed carbothermic reduction tower to produce sulfur, and the other part enters a desulfurization tower.

A boiler for co-firing municipal solid waste and short timber for cultivating fungus includes a boiler chamber and fire grate, where the boiler chamber comprises a furnace, a reburning chamber and a third flue, a front arch and a rear arch are arranged on a lower portion of the furnace and located above the fire grate, and a short timber for cultivating fungus feeding device is arranged on a lower portion of a front wall of the furnace. The short timber for cultivating fungus feeding device includes a star-shaped feeding machine and a hopper, a skin expansion joint is arranged between the star-shaped feeding machine and the hopper, and an air pipe is arranged on the hopper. A layer of a plurality of boiler internal desulfurization desulfurization nozzles and two layers of a plurality of Polymer Non-Catalytic Reduction denitration nozzles are arranged in a height direction of the furnace.

In one embodiment, a method for separating acidic gases from a gas mixture includes exposing the gas mixture to a separation membrane at an elevated temperature, where the separation membrane includes a porous support and at least one molten alkali metal hydroxide disposed within pores of the porous support.

A sorbent product, including from about 1 wt % to about 99 wt %, based on the total weight of the sorbent product, of at least one base sorbent material; and from about 1 wt % to about 99 wt %, based on the total weight of the sorbent product, of at least one binder. The sorbent product may further include at least from about 0 wt % to about 99% wt %, based on the total weight of the sorbent product, of at least one additional additive. Methods for making same and methods and systems for controlling multiple pollutants are also included.

A mixer for recirculating ash from solid fuel combustion with hydrated lime and water and to feed the mixture into a desulfurization reactor. The mixer includes a housing having a front wall, two outer vertical sidewalls, a rear wall, a top, and a bottom, the top includes a feed chute configured for the entry and addition of product to the mixer, and the front wall includes an opening for the mixture of product to exit. The mixer also includes a rotatable vertical shaft having an impeller, the impeller having a plurality of blades disposed on the vertical shaft in the same horizontal plane and distributed equidistantly about the circumference of the vertical shaft. The mixer also includes a vertical wall disposed within the housing forming a mixing region and a feeding region that is operably connected to the opening of the front wall.

Systems and methods for sequestering emissions from marine vessels are provided. Emissions (either flue gas from exhaust or CO.sub.2 carried on the ship under pressure in gas cylinders or CO.sub.2 obtained during the ships travel via capture) are mixed in a reactor with sea water (e.g., via gas exchange through head-space equilibration or bubbling through a diffuser) until a pH of 5.5 to 6.5 is obtained. Systems and reactors pump seawater through a reactor vessel containing a reaction medium (e.g., carbonates and silicates). The reactor produces an effluent that can be expelled into the ocean. The effluent produced from the result of a reaction according to embodiments has approximately twice the concentration of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (DIC) and Alkalinity (Alk) as the incoming sea water and has an increased Ca.sup.+2 concentration above sea water.