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FGD scrubbing, paid for in pressure drop

Power-plant stack gas cleaned in a high-energy venturi wet scrubber, with removal and fan power falling out of the same solve.

Calvert momentum-exchange pressure dropCut-diameter grade efficiency plus soluble-gas absorptionRemoval bought with fan power — the trade made explicit
Stack gas (SO₂)
Scrubbing liquid
Venturi scrubber
Clean stack gas
Scrubber slurry

The actual dark-mode canvas: hot stack gas accelerated through a venturi throat where scrubbing liquid is injected, leaving clean gas to the stack and a sulfur-bearing slurry below.

Removal is paid for in pressure drop

A venturi scrubber's collection efficiency comes from the relative velocity between gas and injected droplets, and that velocity is exactly what costs pressure drop — so emissions performance and fan power are the same number seen twice. Both are solved here, which is what makes the trade visible instead of assumed.

ΔP=ρL(LG)vgt2(Calvert momentum exchange)\Delta P = \rho_L\left(\frac{L}{G}\right) v_{gt}^{\,2} \quad \text{(Calvert momentum exchange)}
η(d)=1exp ⁣[(d/dc)2](cut-diameter grade efficiency)\eta(d) = 1 - \exp\!\left[-\left(d/d_{c}\right)^{2}\right] \quad \text{(cut-diameter grade efficiency)}
removal  ΔP  fan power\text{removal} \uparrow \ \Leftrightarrow \ \Delta P \uparrow \ \Leftrightarrow \ \text{fan power} \uparrow

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Venturi scrubber

Calvert momentum-exchange pressure drop plus cut-diameter grade efficiency, with soluble-gas absorption.

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Live plant integration

Stream throat pressure drop, liquid-to-gas ratio and stack SO₂ from the plant's OPC-UA server into this flowsheet's twin comparison — scrubber performance is bought with pressure drop, and a drift there is both an emissions and an energy signal.

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