Air quality control SOLUTIONS

Electrostatic Precipitators
Effectively improving the environment

Alstoms wide range

of Electrostatic
Precipitators (ESP)
designs offer the best
fit for all applications,
optimising emission
compliance and
saving power.

Customer benefits
HIGH PARTICULATE REMOVAL
EFFICIENCY
Emission levels less than 10 mg/Nm3.
CUSTOMISATION
Choice of discharge electrodes
customised to specific demands of
various applications.

Meeting the most stringent regulation

with the lowest cost
Electrostatic Precipitators (ESP) are widely accepted across the world as an
effective system for particulate emissions control. Alstom Electrostatic
Precipitators, offer a reliable solution to the demands of increasingly strict
regulations for particulate matter emissions worldwide, at the lowest
lifecycle cost.
ESPs work by creating a high voltage electrical field (corona) around the discharge
electrodes, which causes the gases and the dust particles being carried by the gases,
to get ionised. The dust particles, once charged, migrate to and deposit themselves
on the neutral collecting plates, from which they are dislodged by periodic rapping and
guided to dust hoppers for removal.
Alstom offers a wide range of ESP designs, with a choice of discharge electrodes and
rapping systems, to provide the most cost effective, technically reliable solution for
every application.

Applications

Power and industrial boilers firing coal, lignite, oil, orimulsion, biomass and
other fuels
Various processes in iron and steel and non-ferrous metallurgical industries,

cement industry, incineration plants, glass smelting and pulp & paper plants, etc.

INCREASED AVAILABILITY
Robust design and construction
ensures reliability.

TPW/BPROS/ESPBRC12/EN/ECS/10.13/CH/7709

REDUCED COMPLIANCE COSTS

Integrated control system optimises
power savings while maximising
performance.
LOWER INVESTMENT
Easy to install due to flexible layout
and modular design.
PROVEN DESIGN
Proven technology fine tuned with
global experience and a large installed
base.

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Air quality control SOLUTIONS

Electrostatic Precipitators

3 STEPS TO MAXIMISE PERFORMANCE

1 Optimum charging of the dust is fundamental to effective ESP performance and

this is achieved by perfectly matching the choice of the discharge electrode design
to the demands of the application.
The Alstom spiral discharge electrodes ensure uniform corona current distribution
and is universally recognised as the most effective solution for medium and high
resistivity dust.
The Alstom multi-peak discharge electrodes are best suited for applications
involving low resistivity dusts or dusts having large amounts of fine particles.

Scope options
EPC Option

Design, engineering, supply, erection and

commissioning with or without civil works

Design, engineering and supply with advisory

service during erection and commissioning

2 Effective Cleaning System design helps prevent dust building up on the collecting
plates, minimising the back corona effect, which otherwise diminishes the
efficiency of the ESP, especially if the dust resistivity is high.
Alstom uses a robust tumbling hammer design which is most effective in
dislodging even the most resistant dust from the electrodes, to ensure consistently
high efficiency of the ESP.
Alstom also offers, Electric Impact Rapping (EIR) for applications involving low
resistivity dust, where relatively mild rapping is sufficient. The design of the EIR
is simple and easy to maintain as all the moving parts are accessible from outside
the flue gas path.

3 High quality Integrated ESP Control systems ensure optimised performance of

the ESP
Alstoms Electrostatic Precipitator Intelligent Controller (EPIC III) is a 3rd
generation state-of-the-art ESP control system that delivers
optimum performance and power savings thanks to a range of operating modes
rapping sequence optimisation and power controlled rapping as well as selfoptimisation algorithms (EPOQ)
Alstom also offers the Switch Integrated Rectifier (SIR) high frequency output
power supplies, which ensures maximum power injection without sparking and
is highly effective for low and medium resistivity dusts.

EP Option

Services Only
Operation and maintenance services

Technical specifications
PM removal efficiency

approx. 99.95%

Emission level

<10 mg/Nm3

Corona power consumption

110 W/m2

Typical ESP layout and key components

Gas distribution
screens

TPW/BPROS/ESPBRC12/EN/ECS/10.13/CH/7709

Bottom arrangement
(pyramid hoppers,
trough hoppers
or scrapers, baffles)

Rapping mechanism
for discharge and
collecting electrodes

Power supply

Casing

Discharge electrode
system

Collecting electrodes

State-of-the-Art Laboratory and Testing Facilities

Highly-skilled engineers and technicians from Alstoms R&D Execution Centre in

Vxj, Sweden support our customers and the further development of our ESP
technology solutions.
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relied on that it is complete or correct or will apply to any particular project. This will depend on the technical and commercial circumstances. It is
provided without liability and is subject to change without notice. Reproduction, use or disclosure to third parties, without express written authority,
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LOWERING
ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT

<10mg/Nm3

emissions achievable using our

ESP Solutions and Technology.
Alstom has a strong reference
base of more than 4,500
successful ESP installations
worldwide including 230 GW
eqv. in power generation.
To find out more about Alstoms
ESP technology and applications,
please contact your local Alstom
representative:
Alstom Power
Brown Boveri Strasse 7
5401 Baden
Switzerland
Visit us online: www.alstom.com