Influence of electrode configuration on energy utilization for SO/sub 2/ removal in flue gas with pulsed corona plasma

The reactor design is a critical factor for the power cost. In this paper, research has been focused on determining the optimization of the reactor design for improving pulsed streamer energy utilization efficiency and reducing power cost. The influence of electrode configuration on energy utilization efficiency of wire-plate DeSO/sub 2/ reactor has been studied. The experimental results show that energy utilization efficiency of reactor improves when increase the number of discharge wire or decrease the wire-to-plate spacing under same conditions such as the parameters of power supply circuit and DC high voltage, and the optimization wire-to-wire spacing is 0.6-1 times the size of the wire-to-plate spacing.