Lee JH  Kim BJ  Jeon SB  Cho JH  Kang MK  Oh KJ

Vol. 23,  No. 3, pp. 294-301, Sep.  2017
10.7464/ksct.2017.23.3.294

Ship emission NO oxidation Hyrogen peroxide Photolysis

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Air pollution associated with the NOx emission from the ship engines is becoming one of the major environmental concerns these days. As the regulations on ship pollutants are strengthened, the wet absorption method, for controlling complex pollutants in a confined space, has the advantage of simultaneously removing various pollutants, but the low solubility of nitrogen monoxide is drawback. In this study, for improving existing denitrification scrubber system, NO oxidation process by hydroxyl radical produced from irradiating UV light on H2O2 is suggested and the H2O2 decomposition rates and hydroxyl radical quantum yields were measured to find the optimum condition of H2O2 photolysis reaction. As a result, the optimum quantum yield and photolysis rate of H2O2 were 0.8798, 0.6 mol h-1 at 8 W, 2 M condition, and oxidation efficiency of 1000 ppm NO gas was 40%. In batch system, NO removal efficiency has a range of 65.0 ~ 67.3% according to input gas concentration of 100 ~ 1500 ppm. This results indicate that the scrubber system using hydrogen peroxide photolysis can be applied as air pollution prevention facility of ship engines.