Patent ID: 6231648
Filing Date: 2001-05-15
Classification: B01D,B01F,B03C,Y02A

Abstract:
A wet electrostatic scrubber unit for extracting from a polluted air stream contaminants entrained therein whereby emerging from the unit is an environmentally acceptable air stream that can safely be exhausted into the atmosphere, said unit including at least one treatment station comprising:A. a cylindrical duct;B. a water-delivery pipe coaxially mounted within the duct and provided with at least one nozzle to project a stream of water toward an inner surface of the duct, said nozzle provided with a bore of uniform diameter whose length is such that water is projected therefrom in a collimated beam;C. means to feed water into said pipe to cause said water beam to be projected at said surface effective to form a mist in the duct created by collision of the water beam with the inner surface of the duct; andD. means to blow the polluted air stream through said duct to intersect said mist which acts to extract the contaminants from the air stream.