Effluent treatment apparatus and method of operating same

A gas liquid scrubber for conditioning an effluent stream, said gas liquid scrubber comprising:

• a. a treatment zone comprising a plenum chamber having an effluent inlet and an effluent outlet and wherein an effluent may reside in a dynamic state for conditioning treatment thereof during passage through said plenum chamber;
• b. fluid injection means for introducing a fluid conditioning agent into said plenum chamber for conditioning interaction with the effluent dynamically residing therein, said fluid injection means comprising at least one fluid injection nozzle having a flexible discharge tube with an effective length at least equal to the characteristic wavelength for flexural resonant vibration thereof when conditioning agent issues therefrom under force-coupled conditions and corresponding to at least one harmonic wavelength of the coupled fluid stream comprised of the conditioning agent as the same is conducted through said tube;
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• c. reservoir means for collecting materials separated from the effluent stream as a result of conditioning interaction between the injected fluid conditioning agent and the effluent stream.

A gas liquid scrubber comprising a wet cyclone separator for conditioning an effluent stream, said scrubber having a generally conical plenum chamber including an effluent inlet for introducing untreated effluent and an effluent outlet for discharging conditioned effluent and wherein effluent may reside dynamically in a vortical flow path during passage through said plenum chamber;

• an apical collection zone wherein constituents removed from the effluent stream may reside;
• fluid injection means for introducing a fluid conditioning agent to said plenum chamber for conditioning the effluent stream, said injection means comprising a generally vertical array of fluid injection nozzles, each including a flexible discharge tube with an effective length at least equal to the characteristic wavelength for flexural resonant vibration thereof when conditioning agent issues therefrom under force-coupled conditions and corresponding to at least one harmonic wavelength of the coupled fluid stream comprised of the conditioning agent as the same is conducted through said tube, and wherein said nozzles are disposed for introducing the fluid conditioning agent into said plenum chamber in a direction principally concurrent with said vortical flow path and in a spray pattern having at least a portion thereof impinging upon and penetrating within said vortical flow path when effluent dynamically resides in said plenum chamber during passage therethrough.

A gas liquid scrubber comprising a wet cyclone separator for conditioning an effluent stream, said scrubber having a generally conical treatment zone comprising a plenum chamber including a tangential effluent inlet for introducing untreated effluent into said plenum chamber and an effluent outlet having a duct means projecting within said plenum chamber for discharging conditioned effluent, and wherein effluent may reside dynamically in a vortical flow path during passage through said plenum chamber;

• a collection zone where constituents removed from the effluent stream may reside;
• and fluid injection means for introducing a fluid conditioning agent into said plenum chamber for conditioning the effluent stream, said injection means comprising at lest two generally vertical arrays of fluid injection nozzles disposed equiangularly about the upper periphery of said plenum chamber projecting to a depth therein at least approximately equal to or less than the depth of projection of said duct means therein, each of said nozzles including a flexible discharge tube with an effective length at least equal to the characteristic wavelength for flexural resonant vibration thereof when conditioning agent issues therefrom under force-coupled conditions and corresponding to at least one harmonic wavelength of the coupled fluid stream comprised of the conditioning agent as the same is conducted through said tube;
• and wherein said nozzles are disposed for introducing the conditioning agent in a direction principally concurrent with said vortical flow path.