Simulation and experimental study of gas-phase diffusion coefficient of selenium dioxide.

Improving the removal effect of selenium in wet flue gas desulfurization system is a key way to reduce the emission of selenium pollutants from coal-fired power plants. In order to clarify the removal mechanism of selenium pollutants in the desulfurization tower, it is necessary to obtain accurate selenium gas-phase diffusion coefficient. In this paper, molecular dynamics simulations were used to carry out theoretical calculations of gas-phase diffusion coefficients of SeO ₂ (the main form of selenium in coal combustion flue gas). The gas-phase diffusion coefficients of SeO ₂ in the range of 393 K-433 K were measured by a self-developed heavy metal gas diffusion coefficient testing device to verify the accuracy of the molecular dynamics calculations. Furthermore, the calculated gas-phase diffusion coefficients of SeO ₂ under typical binary and ternary components were obtained by correcting on the basis of Fuller's formula. Finally, a single-droplet absorption model for SeO ₂ was constructed and experiments were carried out to compare the effect of the gas-phase diffusion coefficient on the accuracy of the model calculations. The error of the model calculations was reduced from 8.09 % to 1.96 % after the correction. In this study, the gas-phase diffusion coefficient of SeO ₂ in the low-temperature range of coal-fired flue gas was obtained. This study can provide basic data for the development of selenium migration mechanism and control technology.
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