Wet scrubbing device

Claim 1

A wet scrubbing apparatus for cleaning a waste gas comprising: a scrubber housing having a flow-through inlet and a flow-through outlet; a plurality of transversely extending troughs mounted within said housing between said flow-through inlet and said flow-through outlet, said plurality of troughs equally spaced in a plurality of horizontally aligned rows with alternating rows being vertically aligned and said troughs in adjacent rows being spaced equidistant between said troughs of adjacent rows; means to add a scrubbing solution to said troughs; and, means to force said scrubbing solution out of said troughs including a first conduit disposed along the bottom of each of said troughs with spaced preselected openings therein in fluid communication with a pressurized fluid source so that the scrubbing solution overflowing from row to row of said troughs creates fluid sheets caught by said troughs in rows adjacently below overflowing troughs, whereby the waste gas to be cleaned must pass through the liquid sheets of scrubbing solution as the waste gas to be cleaned passes through said housing from said flow-through inlet to said flow-through outlet.