Talk:Flue Gas Desulfurization

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[edit] This article needs complete re-writing and merging

Flue gas desulfurization has been in commercial use on coal fired power plants and elsewhere for over 30 years. In fact, in an article I wrote "Coping With SO₂" in the Chemical Engineering magazine of October 21, 1974, I stated "Stack gas SO₂ removal units are now successfully operating in 42 commercial applications, using 13 versions of seven basic processes. These units range in size from less than 5 to as large as 250 MW." I also published a table in that article listing over 30 such desulfurization units then operating in Japan alone.

Since that time, the number of flue gas desulfurization units in commercial operation worldwide has probably increased by a factor of twenty or even more. And the number of commercially proven processes has has also increased significantly. With all of that experience using commercially proven processes, why has this article chosen only to discuss a few electron beam processes which have not yet been put into commercial use ... in fact, which are still in a demonstration phase of development?

Any reader of this article, as it stood, would be left with the impression that flue gas desulfurization is something new and that the electron beam technology is the only available approach. Surely, there are some competent chemical engineers in Wikipedia who could write a much better article than this. I have made a cursory start on the re-write by deleting all mention of the electron beam resarch and by re-writing the lead-in sentences. I hope others will finish the article.
mbeychok 02:45, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging needed

I have just found that the Wikipedia has another article entitled Flue gas desulfurization (Category:Pollution control technologies) as well as this one entitled Flue Gas Desulfurization. Should they not be merged into one article??
mbeychok 03:14, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expert needed

This article and the one proposed for merging with it are both in need of a competent chemical engineer with at least 10 years experience in this specific field and a good knowledge of the history of flue gas desulfurization processes.
mbeychok 00:14, 12 March 2006 (UTC)