Venturi wet scrubber

Claim 1

A venturi type scrubber comprising in combination a housing having an inlet region, a throat region and an outlet region, said housing being adapted to have a stream of contaminated gas pass downwardly therethrough entering said inlet region and then traversing said throat region and passing out of said outlet region, said inlet region having side walls that converge towards said throat region, a first tray of rod members of circular cross-section extending across said throat region with these members being in parallel spaced relation, a second tray of similar rod members spaced from said first tray in the direction of gas flow and with the rod members of the second tray being disposed generally intermediate those of the first, at least a plurality of the rod members of said first tray being hollow to provide a passageway therethrough, openings extending through the wall of said passageway in the upstream direction relative to said gas flow for conveying fluid from the interior of the said passageway into said gas flow counter-current thereto, at least some of said openings being disposed close to the venturi walls so that fluid passing therefrom will impinge upon said venturi walls upstream of said first tray, means for introducing a washing liquid into said passageways at one end thereof including a sump for said liquid and a pump to convey liquid from said sump to said passageway, conduit means to convey said liquid from the other end of said passageway to said sump pressure regulator means in said conduit means to regulate the pressure in said passageway.