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scrubber
(redirected from Flue gas scrubber)

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scrubber1
an apparatus for purifying a gas

scrubber2
Austral a domestic animal, esp a bullock, that has run wild in the bush

scrubber [′skrəb·ər]
(engineering)
A device for the removal, or washing out, of entrained liquid droplets or dust, or for the removal of an undesired gas component from process gas streams. Also known as washer; wet collector.
(mining engineering)
A device, such as a wash screen, wash trommel, log washer, and hydraulic jet or monitor, in which a coarse and sticky material, for example, ore or clay, is either washed free of adherents or mildly disintegrated.


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In addition, Foster Wheeler's selective catalytic reduction technology will be installed to reduce NOx emissions at the stack, and a flue gas scrubber will be used for sulfur dioxide reduction.
The primary alternative to modifying the coker was the installation of a flue gas scrubber which would have cost approximately $250 million and would not have provided additional capabilities or cost reduction opportunities at the refinery.
subsidiary located in Santa Fe Springs, CA, and provides new steam generators, environmental solutions (including SCRs, flue gas scrubbers and mercury removal systems), and a complete portfolio of after market solutions to the electric utility and waste-to-energy industries for any OEM's boiler through its subsidiaries located in Worcester, MA.
 
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