A highly efficient, cost-effective syngas and emissions filtration platform technology for cleaner energy

智能分离有限公司(SSL)开发了一种先进、更便宜、更高效和更坚固的过滤器类型，用于分离微米级颗粒。SSL技术将用于进一步开发高温能源发电应用中的颗粒物去除过滤器，如焚烧、气化和发电，并将导致更低的能源成本和更清洁的排放。这种专有的过滤平台技术基于陶瓷过滤器内锥形气孔的新颖形成，并可定制以适应广泛的不同市场和工业应用。目前，在这些和工业领域，各种耐久性较低的技术被用于去除颗粒物和化学污染物。由于目前缺乏高效、耐用、高温、高通量的过滤技术，人们使用了湿法洗涤等替代技术来绕过这些限制，但这些技术增加了相关成本，并产生了更多废物。SSL型过滤器具有优异的耐化学性和耐热性，非常适合用于合成气和烟气排放处理。还有可能将颗粒物和化学物质的去除集成到一个单一的多功能系统和基础设施中，因此可以显著降低运行成本。在萨里郡，膜过滤器将进行功能化、表征和应用测试。功能化将涉及一系列方法，包括用氧化催化剂清洗涂层(如在汽车尾气中)，以及检查金属陶瓷和离子导电陶瓷(两者在高温下稳定)的可能性。

Smart Separations Ltd (SSL) has developed an advanced, cheaper, more efficient and robust filter type to separate micronsized particles. The SSL technology will be used to further develop filters for particulate removal in high temperature energy generating applications such as incineration, gasification and power generation and will result in lower energy costs and cleaner emissions. This proprietary filtration platform technology is based on a novel formation of conical pores within ceramic filters and which can be tailored to suit a wide range of different markets and industrial applications. A variety of low durability technologies are currently used for removal of particulates and chemical pollutants in these and industrial sectors.With the current lack of efficient, durable, high temperature high-throughput filtration technologies available, alternatives such as wet-scrubbing have been used to circumvent these limitations, but those increase the associated cost and generate further waste. The excellent chemical and thermal resistance of SSL's filters should be well suited to applications in both syngas and flue emissions treatment. It is also possible to integrate particulate and chemicals removal into a single multifunctional system and infrastructure and running costs can therefore be dramatically reduced.At Surrey, membrane filters will be functionalized, characterized and tested in application. Functionalization will involve a range of approaches, including wash coating with oxidation catalysts (as in car exhausts) and also examination of the potential for involvement of cermets and of ionically conductive ceramics (both stable at high temperatures).