Presentation of the company ELEX

• founded: 1934
• employees: ca. 70
• number of electrostatic precipitators
installed: more than 6'000
• head ofice: Schwerzenbach
Zürich

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Fields of application
• Production plants for cement, limestone and gypsum
(kilns, mills, driers and coolers)
• Coal- and oil-fired boilers, coal driers and coal mills
• Refuse and sludge incinerators
• Gas production plants
• Iron and steel production plants (ore dressing, blast
furnaces, convertors and scarfing machines)
• Production plants in the electro-metallurgical,
chemical and pulp and paper industry
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Method of operation
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Sizing
• Chemical composition of the dust
• "Deutsch" formula
• migration velocity
• experience
• Dust resistivity
• gas temperature
• dew point
• grain size
• dust content
• Spacing - 400 mm
• Gas conditioning
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Sizing
• Dust resistivity
• gas temperature
• dew point
• grain size
• dust content
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Design
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• Collecting electrode suspension profile
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• Rapping system collecting electrodes
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• Rapping system collecting electrodes
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• Discharge electrode
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• Suspension discharge
electrodes
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• Supporting insulator
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• Rapping system
discharge electrodes
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• Rapping system discharge electrodes
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• Rapping system discharge electrodes
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• Water injection system
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• Nozzle lance with spill back nozzle
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Erection
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Erection
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References

• Siam City Cement

Thailand
• 9'000 t/day
• FLS Preheater kiln
• Gas volume
780'000 m3/h (NTP)
• Clean gas dust content
50 mg/m3 (NTP, wet)
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References
• Siam City Cement Thailand
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References

• Deuna Cement
Germany
• 2'700 t/day
• Polysius
Preheater kiln
• Gas volume
160'000 m3/h (NTP)
• Clean gas dust content
20 mg/m3 (NTP)
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References

• Deuna Cement Germany

• 2'700 t/day
• Clinker cooler
• Gas volume
110'000 m3/h (NTP)
• Clean gas dust content
20 mg/m3 (NTP)
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• Karsdorf Zement
Germany
• 2'300 t/day
• Prehaeter kiln
• Gas volume
237'000 m3/h (NTP)
• Clean gas dust content
30 mg/m3 (NTP)
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References

O Compostilla Power
Station Spain
O Pit Coal
O 2 x 165 MW
O 6 Fields in series
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References

O Zolling Power Station,

Germany
O 450 MW
O Pit Coal
O Gas volume per E.P.
810'000 m3/h (NTP)
O Clean gas dust content:
50 mg/m3 (NTP, dry)
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