Integrated Solutions for a clean Environment

HAMON AIR QUALITY SYSTEMS

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HAMON AIR QUALITY SYSTEMS

​Hamon Research-Cottrell: Knowledge and
more than a century of Understanding of
expertise in Air Quality Regulations
Systems The ever-changing industrial and
Hamon Research-Cottrell began when governmental rules and regulations are
Dr. Frederick Gardner Cottrell invented a challenge that Hamon readily accepts.
the first industrial electrostatic precipitator We constantly monitor the regulations
in 1907. to ensure that our systems, parts and
To support scientific research, Dr. Cottrell services meet increasingly stringent
co-founded the non-profit Research demands.
Corporation in 1912. Forty years later,
Research Corporation gave birth to
Research-Cottrell.
Hamon continues, through acquisitions in
the nineties, the tradition of engineering
excellence by designing, building, and
servicing top class Air Quality Systems
for Power generation, Heavy Industries
and Waste to Energy Plants.

Mission
Reducing emissions is a mandatory
and complex task for any industry. The
result must not only comply with present
and future regulatory requirements, it
must also integrate the needs of specific
production processes, schedules and
budget constraints. Hamon has decades
of experience in the design, engineering,
construction, start-up, operation and
maintenance of Air Quality Systems. Power Generation
In order to test and optimize our Innovative Technologies for Large Utility Boilers,
designs and continuous technological Industrial Boilers, Diesel Generator Stations, Gas
improvements, we conduct our own Turbine Combined Cycles.
in-house flow dynamic models and
computer simulations.
This expertise, which includes countless
Steel & Foundry
on site emission control systems for Effective solutions for Sinter Plants, Blast Furnaces
numerous and various processes, allows (Cast House and Stock House), Scarfing, Unloading
us to confidently apply technology to and Conveying.
any specific requirement.
All our employees are committed and Non-ferrous Metal
proud to work for a better environment. Tailor-made solutions for the Aluminum, Copper,
Zinc, Lead and Nickel Industries.
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THE TOTAL SOLUTION FOR ALL INDUSTRIES

Petrochemicals Pulp & Paper
Specific Electrostatic Precipitators and Scrubbers for Proprietary techniques for Lime Kilns, Recovery
gases generated by Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units Boilers and Biomass Boilers.
(FCCU). Power Boilers integrated into petrochemical
complexes are also offered appropriate Air Quality
Waste to Energy
Systems.
The whole range of innovative Technologies for:

Cement • Biomass, such as wood, bagasse

Effective solutions for Kilns, Clinker Coolers and Raw
• Municipal waste
Mills.
• Industrial waste
• Sludge
Glass
• Medical waste
Expertise in Float and Bottle Glass Furnaces,
solutions for Fiber Glass.
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DUST REMOVAL SYSTEMS

Electrostatic Precipitators
Wet and dry

For more than a century, on the basis of Dr. Frederick • Electrostatic Precipitator
Gardner Cottrell’s patent through Research-Cottrell • Pulse jet Medium Pressure Fabric Filter
company, Electrostatic Precipitators (ESP’s) have
been the preferred Air Quality Control Technology for • Low Pressure High Volume Fabric Filter
particulate abatement in power generation and industrial
processes throughout the world. ESPs can be designed • Cyclone
to meet stringent particulate emission standards with
• Multicyclone
minimal pressure loss and high equipment reliability for
extended plant operation. Hamon has an installed base • Impingement Urea Scrubber
of over 5000 ESPs in numerous industries and provides
a full range of equipment for dry and wet Electrostatic • NH3 and SO3 Flue Gas Conditioning
Precipitators, including preassembled and panel type
• Hybrid Collector
collecting plates, durable rigid discharge electrodes,
mechanical tumbling hammers or MIGI electromagnetic
rapping devices and a full range of microprocessor
controls.
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Fabric Filters
Low and Medium Pressure

Hamon Fabric Filter systems are a major component of a

long tradition of excellence. We combine more than 40
years of experience in fabric filtration including the latest
approaches in low pressure high volume pulse jet filters as
well as more conventional technologies such as reverse
gas filtration or medium pressure pulse jet filtration.
Our engineers have designed and constructed fabric
filters for a variety of applications, including coal
fired steam generators, stoker fired boilers, fluidized
bed combustion boilers, municipal waste incinerators,
cogeneration facilities, and industrial processes such as
steel, rock products, aluminum, glass and cement. With
inherent high collection efficiency, a fabric filter system
is very effective to collect fine particulates and heavy
metals. Hamon offers a wide variety of filter bag cleaning
technologies and associated fabric filter media to suit
virtually all operating conditions and dust characteristics.

Plug & Play Fabric Filters

Hamon Plug & Play Fabric Filter with its standardized

material and equipment is easy to install and operate.
Its compact design requires minimal space and reduced
freight and installation costs. The product is available
as stand-alone or in modular configurations suitable for
most industry applications, meeting the most stringent
efficiency requirements mandated by the current
environmental regulations.

Hybrid Collectors

The Hybrid Collector is the combination of an existing

or new electrostatic precipitator with a Hamon Fabric
Filter with suitable air to cloth ratio. The fabric filter is
located in a separate casing downstream of the ESP or
within the existing ESP’s casing by replacing one or more
fields of collecting plates with fabric filter modules. The
technology is based on the fact that a fabric filter collects
higher levels of particulate - and finer particulate - than
an ESP of equivalent footprint. The bag house acts as a
«polishing device» which can bring particulate emissions
into compliance at very low levels and offers an optimal
site for injection of sorbents such as activated carbon for
mercury control.
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ACID GAS REMOVAL SYSTEMS
Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) involves the removal of sulfur
dioxide (SO2) contained in gases produced by the combustion
of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, orimulsion, municipal solid
waste, automobile tires and many industrial processes such as
gasoline refining, cement, paper, glass, steel, iron, and copper
production. Sulfur dioxide emissions are a primary contributor
to acid rains and have been regulated by every industrialized
nation in the world.
Worldwide, Hamon FGD systems are treating over 70,000 MWs
of power generation capacity in twenty countries and on many
more industrial class applications.
• Lime or Sodium (Bi) carbonate Dry Injection
• Semi-Dry Circulating Dry Scrubber (CDS)
• Semi-Dry Spray Dry Absorber (SDA)
Hamon is expert in designing and supplying:
Dry Sorbent Direct Injection Systems
• Semi-Dry Circulating Dry Scrubber (CDS)
• Semi-Dry systems, with Rotary Atomizers
or Spray Nozzles
• Wet Systems with Lime or Limestone
• Wet Seawater Desulfurization
• Wet Gas Scrubber
(Refinery, ExxonMobil license)
• Lime or Limestone Wet Scrubber
• Wet Seawater Desulfurization
• ExxonMobil Wet Gas ScrubberTM

THESE SYSTEMS ARE DIVIDED IN 3 CATEGORIES:
1. Dry Scrubbing:
By injection of dry lime or sodium bicarbonate, to control acid gas emissions primarily from combustion sources such as
utility and industrial boilers, municipal and medical waste incinerators or industrial processes such as glass furnaces.
2. Semi-Dry Scrubbing:
The flue gases are introduced into an absorber where
they are humidified and cooled down by the injection of
water, which increases the reactivity of Ca. The Ca is the
base absorbent against acid gas components.
In the Spray Dry Absorber (SDA) process, a calcium-
based absorbent such as Ca (OH)2 or CaO is dissolved
in the water. This slurry is sprayed into the absorber by
rotary atomizers or two-component nozzles.
In the Circulating Dry Scrubber (CDS) technology,
water is injected separately from Ca (OH)2 or CaO
by dedicated nozzles. This allows more flexibility in
adjusting the gas temperature and higher removal
efficiency. Acid components like SO2, HCl, HF are
absorbed by reaction with the Ca-based absorbent and
react to a dry solid FGD product. Both technologies,
SDA as well as CDS allow direct injection of activated
carbon to reduce dioxin/furans as well as heavy metal
emissions, since both technologies come equipped with
filters downstream of the absorber.
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3. Wet Scrubbing:
Wet scrubbers are a gas cleaning equipment in
which the dirty gas stream is brought into contact
with a scrubbing liquid. The liquid is sprayed by one-
component nozzles arranged over the whole absorber
cross section and some spray levels. Basic absorbents for
wet scrubber technology are limestone slurry (WLSt) or
seawater (SW).
The scrubber design depends on the process conditions
and the nature of the air pollution involved. Wet
scrubbers are mainly designed to remove acid gas
components like SO2, HCl, HF with high efficiency.
Additionally, particle matters can be removed.
Depending on the requirements, the cleaned flue gas
at the exhaust of the scrubber is wet and saturated or
reheated by a gas-gas-heater (GGH) or others.
The total Solution for FCC Units
Hamon and ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
Company (EMRE) have an exclusive licensing
agreement to provide Wet Gas Scrubber and Purge
Treatment Unit as an air pollution control technology for
Refinery Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Units (FCCU).
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NOX REMOVAL SYSTEMS

SCR
Besides primary measures, Selective Catalytic Reduction
(SCR) is the most effective method for controlling Nitrogen
Oxide Emissions (NOx) from combustion sources. It is a • Selective Catalytic Reduction
commercially proven flue gas treatment technology that
has been demonstrated to remove over 98 percent of • Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction
the NOx contained in combustion system exhaust gas.
• CO Catalytic Oxidation
The catalyst is at the heart of the SCR process. It creates
a surface for reacting the NOx and ammonia, and • Urea to Ammonia U2A™
allows for the reaction to occur within typical flue gas
temperature ranges. Hamon uses a similar technology to
reduce also VOC or CO content.

SNCR
Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction is a post-combustion technology that is designed to control nitrogen
oxides (NOx) emissions from boilers by the injection of ammonia or urea reagents into the flue gas.
Hamon Research-Cottrell is licensed by Exxon Mobil for the application of ammonia based Thermal
DeNoxTM (TDN).

Urea to Ammonia (U2A)

SCR NOx removal process requires ammonia, either anhydrous or aqueous, which is a toxic substance.
The hazards from exposure vary from minor discomfort to toxic poisoning and asphyxiation. To counter
this risk and ensure the safety of plant personnel and the surrounding community, Hamon offers a
patented on site Urea-to-Ammonia generation system, U2ATM, that produces ammonia by a method
avoiding the hazards of its transportation, transfer, and storage. In addition, there are economic
benefits versus using unregulated lower concentrations of aqueous ammonia.
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MULTI-POLLUTANTS & SPECIAL APPLICATIONS

ReACT TM
(Regenerative Activated Coke Technology)
This revolutionary Process controls SO2, NOx, Hg and
particles in a multistage regenerative process that produces
sellable by-product. It is applicable to Utility and Industrial
Processes, including Sinter Plants, Incineration, RFCC and
Coal Fired Boilers.
The 321-MW Wisconsin Public Service Weston Power Plant,
Unit 3 is equipped with a ReACT™️ system engineered and
supplied by Hamon Research-Cottrell.
This ReACT™️ system reduces plant SO2 emissions by
more than 90%, mercury by 90% or more, and provides
additional cobenefit NOx reduction, while producing
approximately 50 MTD of industrial grade sulfuric acid for
the market.

Combined Flue Gas Treatment Systems for

Dioxins & Heavy Metals Control
Waste incineration is probably the most severely demanding
application for the Flue Gas Cleaning field. Control of
several pollutants such as SOx, HCl, HF, heavy metals,
dioxins and furans, as well as NOx, must be accomplished
with integrated air quality systems that combine different
treatments to provide the highest efficiency of removal in
respect of the best available technology. Hamon excels in
providing custom made installations to respond to the most
severe conditions.

Urea Scrubbers for the Fertilizer Industry

The air from the granulators and the coolers contains urea
dust that is entrapped in Hamon’s scrubbers. In these
industrially proven impact type scrubbers, efficiencies are
very high and dust concentrations lower than 20 mg/Nm3
can be achieved at the stack outlet. The total amount of urea
collected by these scrubbers is recycled, for reconcentration,
to the process.
The same process is used to capture NH3 from the gases at
the outlet of the Fertilizer Industry.
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HAMON AT YOUR SERVICE

Currently, utilities and industries are facing extraordinary challenges in the

efficient use and upkeep of their Air Quality Control equipment: aging,
significant preventive maintenance and emergency repairs, process changes,
and demanding new regulations.
Dealing with these issues becomes even more challenging when many
companies do not have the in-house personnel to perform their much needed
maintenance and engineering services.
Hamon has been responding to these challenges for more than a century by:

• Delivering proven solutions to the most difficult compliance and

operating requirements

• Offering a complete line of replacement parts; each product has

been carefully chosen for its quality, performance and value

• Providing the entire range of cost-effective maintenance strategies,

from routine repairs, upgrades to parts, outage planning, project
management to cost containment plans.
With offices throughout the world to perform condition assessments,
performance evaluations, and unit enhancements, Hamon meticulous
services contribute to the extended life of your plant.

Repair and Maintenance Upgrade, rebuild and performance

• Inspection, troubleshooting, enhancement
performance analysis Hundreds of systems have been modified to meet more
• Inspections and training, life extension stringent performance requirements. Units built in the 1960s
and 70s can often be modified to provide 15 to 20% more
• Repair supervision, emergency repairs, outage collecting surface without increasing their footprint. The
maintenance size of European design precipitators can be increased by
• In-house CFD and physical modelling 30% and more by converting them to the HiR Design.Other
innovative solutions exist, amongst others:

Parts and Customer Service

• Discharge electrode wires and weights
• Rigid discharge electrodes, collecting plates
• Filter bags and cages, DeNOx Catalyst
• Microprocessor control systems, electrical
and mechanical auxiliaries
• Ash conditioning – SO3 and/or Ammonia
• Retrofit/conversion of ESP into FF
• Addition of a new ESP or FF in parallel
• Optimization of electrical system, e.g. T-R controls
• Enlargement by additional fields, additional gas
passages, height, etc
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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Data Reconciliation
More than a century of data collection is used on a daily basis
to benchmark mathematical calculation against reality. Hamon’s
expertise therefore increases every day, enabling its empirical
surveys to cope with the everchanging regulation environment. In
addition, designs are continuously improved and, consequently,
offer the optimum solution for every specific case.

An example of Applied Research:

Conversion of ESP into FF
When regulations change the emission levels or when capacities
need to be increased, or both, existing ESP’s can be modified
by changing part or whole of their internals by a Fabric Filter
arrangement.
Since most of the existing Equipment (casing, hoppers, supporting
structure, ash handling system,...) is reused, this operation represents
a substantial saving in cost and footprint and requires a minimum
downtime period.

CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) Modelling

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the fluid flow simulation tool applied to all technologies provided by Hamon
analyzing any type of Gas and fluid containing all kinds of particles and droplets.
Hamon has a wide range of references in CFD simulations in the fields of Filters (ESP, Bag House/Fabric and Hybrid)
including the precipitation of particles. In Acid Gas removal, many cases in Wet (Lime, Limestone or Sea Water) and
Dry/Semidry FGD (CDS, Bicar injection) have been studied.
The CFD is used as a tool to optimize and predict
all kind of flows and to scale up existing systems
to the client’s needs.
CFD at Hamon is supported by different other
tools and techniques like Design of Experiments
(DoE) to reduce the amount of CFD simulations
needed to develop and optimize systems. Also
high efficient 3D geometry modeling tools are
used to generate geometries usable in CFD from
existing 2D or 3D drawings.
INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS FOR A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT

The Hamon group is a global source for engineering and contracting. Its activities include the design, the manufacturing
of critical components, the installation and the after-sale services of cooling systems, air quality (AQS) systems, HRSG’s
and chimneys.

HAMON BRANDS IN AIR QUALITY SYSTEMS

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