Journal of Chemistry
Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 9340856, 10 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9340856

Research Article

NOx Removal from Simulated Marine Exhaust Gas by Wet Scrubbing Using NaClO Solution

Zhitao Han, Bojun Liu, Shaolong Yang, Xinxiang Pan, and Zhijun Yan

Marine Engineering College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Zhitao Han; hanzt@dlmu.edu.cn

Received 31 December 2016; Revised 25 May 2017; Accepted 15 June 2017; Published 13 July 2017

Academic Editor: Andrea Gambaro

Copyright © 2017 Zhitao Han et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

The experiments were performed in a lab-scale countercurrent spraying reactor to study the NOx removal from simulated gas stream by cyclic scrubbing using NaClO solution. The effects of NaClO concentration, initial solution pH, coexisting gases (5% CO₂ and 13% O₂), NOx concentration, SO₂ concentration, and absorbent temperature on NOx removal efficiency were investigated in regard to marine exhaust gas. When NaClO concentration was higher than 0.05 M and initial solution pH was below 8, NOx removal efficiency was relatively stable and it was higher than 60%. The coexisting CO₂ (5%) had little effect on NOx removal efficiency, but the outlet CO₂ concentration decreased slowly with the initial pH increasing from 6 to 8. A complete removal of SO₂ and NO could be achieved simultaneously at 293 K, initial pH of 6, and NaClO concentration of 0.05 M, while the outlet NO₂ concentration increased slightly with the increase of inlet SO₂ concentration. NOx removal efficiency increased slightly with the increase of absorbent temperature. The relevant reaction mechanisms for the oxidation and absorption of NO with NaClO were also discussed. The results indicated that it was of great potential for NOx removal from marine exhaust gas by wet scrubbing using NaClO solution.

1. Introduction

The exhaust gas emitted from marine diesel engines contains a large number of atmospheric pollutants, such as sulphur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulate matters (PMs), which has caused serious damage to the ecological environment [1]. A direct way to reduce SOx emission is to adopt low sulphur fuel oil (LSFO), but this will increase the transportation cost greatly. An alternative way is to install an exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) on board to achieve the abatement of SOx emission equivalently. But it is very difficult for SOx scrubbers to remove NOx effectively at the same time. Generally, the methods for reducing marine NOx emission can be divided into combustion control and postcombustion control techniques. The combustion control techniques include exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) [2], fuel-water emulsion (FWE) [3], and direct water injection (DWI) [4]. They aim at reducing the formation of NOx during the combustion process, but it will result in the decrease of total heat efficiency. At present, the typical postcombustion control approach for ocean-going ships is selective catalytic reduction (SCR), which can remove NOx with an efficiency of 80–95%. As a relatively mature denitrification technology, SCR has been extensively applied in power plants and mobile vehicles. But there are still some problems that limit the application of SCR in marine industry. It requires large additional space and high investment/operation cost. The ash content or sulfate salts may result in the inactivation of SCR catalyst. A complex control system is also required to reduce the ammonia slip [5–7]. Therefore, ship owners around the world are still seeking a better way to reduce NOx emission. It is of great importance to develop an efficient denitrification technology that can cater for the needs of ocean-going ships.

During the past decades, wet scrubbing technique becomes more and more attractive for the simultaneous removal of SOx, NOx, and other pollutants. As to NOx removal, a preoxidation process is required to oxidize NO into NO₂ or other nitrogen oxides of higher values. That is due to the low solubility (1.93 × 10−3 mol·L⁻¹·atm⁻¹ at 25°C) of NO in water. The nonthermal plasma (NTP) can be used to oxidize NO effectively, and then an absorption process is followed for NO₂ absorption. However, this method requires a high energy consumption [8, 9]. Similarly, ozone oxidation method encounters the same limitation [10–12]. Another feasible approach is to add the oxidants into the absorbent. For this purpose, various oxidants such as hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) [13–15], potassium permanganate (KMnO₄) [16], sodium chlorite (NaClO₂) [17, 18], calcium hypochlorite (Ca(ClO)₂) [19], and sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) [20–24] have been investigated to enhance the NO removal efficiency of the scrubbing solution. Compared with other oxidants, NaClO has some distinct advantages, such as low cost, easy availability, strong oxidative ability, easy to storage, good stability, and low toxicity. So it is attractive for researchers to investigate the simultaneous removal of NO and SO₂ by wet scrubbing using NaClO solution [25–28]. A previous study implied that NO could be effectively removed by wet scrubbing using NaClO solution in a cyclic mode, and the utilization of NaClO oxidant in solution was extremely high [29]. But the effect of the operating parameters (such as NaClO concentration, solution pH, absorbent temperature, NO, and SO₂ concentrations) on NO removal efficiency by cyclic scrubbing using NaClO solution had not been investigated. In this paper, marine exhaust gas was chosen as the treatment objective. Though the components of marine exhaust gas might vary with the engine load and fuel type, the typical compositions of marine exhaust gas contained ~13% O₂ and ~5% CO₂. The effect of coexisting gases on NOx removal efficiency had also been studied preliminarily, and the relevant reaction mechanism was discussed.

2. Experimental Section

2.1. Materials

As mentioned in [11], exhaust gas scrubbers are designed in accordance with the maximum power and exhaust amount of target engine for the practical application in marine industry. The exhaust gas compositions are also measured at maximum load of engine. In this study, the concern is mainly focused on the NOx removal efficiency, and the concentrations of gas components of a typical marine slow-speed 2-stroke diesel engine are considered as the reference. The fuel type is heavy fuel oil with 2.4% sulphur content. Thus, the concentrations of O₂, CO₂, SO₂, and NOx are ~13%, ~5%, ~600 ppm, and ~1000 ppm, respectively. Here the simulated exhaust gas was prepared by blending various kinds of synthetic gases. Five kinds of gases, N₂ (99.999%), O₂ (99.995%), CO₂ (99.999%), NO (10.04% NO with N₂ as the balance gas), and SO₂ (10.1% SO₂ with N₂ as the balance gas) (Dalian Date Gas Co., Ltd), were used to make the simulated flue gas. As NO accounted for more than 95% of NOx in marine exhaust gas, only NO span gas was used to prepare the NOx components in simulated gas stream.

The NaClO solutions were prepared using the commercial NaClO solution (5% available chlorine, Shanghai Aladdin Bio-Chem Technology Co., Ltd) and the deionized water. The volume of NaClO solution was 1 L for each test. The pH value was adjusted by adding 0.5 M H₂SO₄ solution and determinated using an acidimeter (Mettler-Toledo International Trading Co., Ltd).

2.2. Experimental Apparatus

A schematic diagram of the experimental apparatus is shown in Figure 1. It consists of a gas distributing system, a gas-liquid countercurrent scrubbing reactor, and a gas analyzer.

Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the experimental setup.

N₂, O₂, CO₂, NO, and SO₂ were provided from separate air bottles and metered through mass flow controllers (MFC, Beijing Sevenstar Electronics Co., Ltd). The simulated flue gas was obtained from the feed gases by blending with an on-line mixer, and then it was introduced into the spraying column. The height and inner diameter of the column were 25 cm and 5 cm, respectively. A spraying nozzle (B1/4TT-SS+TG-SS0.4, Spraying System Co., Ltd) was located at the top of the column. The size of liquid droplet sprayed from the nozzle was in the range of 80–100 μm. The flow rate of the simulated flue gas was fixed at 1.25 L/min. The calculated residence time of flue gas in the column was ~23 s.

When the initial gas concentrations were adjusted to the required level, the simulated flue gas was introduced into the scrubber from the bottom of the column. The NaClO absorbent was sprayed from top to bottom. A peristaltic pump was used to pump the scrubbing solution cyclically. The flow rate of the scrubbing solution was ~0.27 L/min. Each run of the test was 20 min. The outlet concentrations of flue gas were measured at an interval of 10 s. The solution temperatures were adjusted by the constant water bath (F34-MA, Julabo Labortechnik GmbH) and measured with a mercury thermometer. A MRU MGA-5 gas analyzer was used to determinate the gas concentrations of O₂, CO₂, NO, and NO₂ in flue gas.

2.3. Data Process

The gas concentrations measured by the bypass are taken as the inlet concentrations. The average concentrations within 20 min measured by the gas outlet are considered as the outlet concentrations. The removal efficiencies of NOx and SO₂ are calculated by the following equation:

in which is the removal efficiency and and are the inlet and outlet concentrations, respectively. Here NOx refers to the mixture of NO and NO₂ in flue gas.

3. Results and Discussion

3.1. Effect of Initial pH and NaClO Concentration

The active components in NaClO solution were available chlorine, which mainly includes HClO, ClO⁻, and Cl₂. The compositions of NaClO solution depended greatly on the solution pH. Firstly, it was necessary to investigate the effect of initial solution pH on the NOx removal efficiency. Figure 2 showed that NOx removal efficiency was very low when the solution pH was higher than 10. That was because little HClO existed in the solution when solution pH was higher than 10, but HClO was considered to be the main component in NaClO solution to oxidize NO [22]. It demonstrated that NaClO solution without optimizing the initial pH was not suitable for removing NOx. With the decrease of initial pH from 10 to 8, NOx removal efficiency increased quickly, which was due to the increase of fractional composition of HClO in solution. HClO oxidized NO into NO₂, N₂O₃, N₂O₄, and in chain reactions of (2)–(9) [30, 31]. The possible reaction pathways were summarized as shown in Figure 3.

As shown in Figure 2, with the initial pH decreasing from 8 to 7, a slight drop of NOx removal efficiency appeared. On further reducing the initial pH, the changes of NOx removal efficiency depended on NaClO concentration. When initial NaClO concentration was below 0.05 M, NOx removal efficiency continued to decrease with initial pH decreasing from 7 to 6. This was because the oxidation power of was stronger than that of HClO in neutral or weak acidic medium. As shown in Figure 4, HClO concentration increased while concentration decreased with solution pH decreasing from 7 to 6. However, when NaClO concentration was higher than 0.05 M, the oxidation power of active chlorine was high enough to oxidize NO effectively at pH 6 and 7 [32]. At the moment, the effect of the change of active chlorine concentration was not obvious enough. The result indicated that a high NaClO concentration might be appropriate for practical application for it was easy to obtain a high and stable NOx removal efficiency in a relatively wide range of solution pH.

Figure 2: Effect of initial solution pH on NOx removal efficiency (gas flow is 1.25 L/min, inlet NOx concentration is 1000 ppm, NaClO concentration is 0.0125–0.1 M, and solution temperature is 293 K).

Figure 3: Reaction pathways for NOx removal by NaClO solution.

Figure 4: Equilibrium concentrations of active chlorine species in NaClO solution as a function of solution pH.

Figure 5 showed the effect of initial solution pH on NOx concentration in flue gas. When NaClO concentration was higher than 0.05 M and solution pH was in the range of 4–8, outlet NO concentration was lower than 124 ppm. It suggested that the majority of NO had been oxidized into NO₂ by NaClO. When NaClO concentration was 0.05 M, outlet NO concentration decreased sharply to 35 ppm with initial pH decreasing from 10 to 8. At the same time, NO₂ concentration in outlet gas increased from 14 ppm to 353 ppm. On further decreasing the initial pH down to 6, a complete removal of NO could be achieved with 0.05 M NaClO while outlet NO₂ concentration reached about 400 ppm. With the initial pH decreasing from 6 to 4, NO in outlet gas increased to 124 ppm while NO₂ in outlet gas decreased to 270 ppm. NOx removal efficiency changed little in the range of pH 4–8. The results implied that, to a certain extent, NOx removal efficiency for wet scrubbing using NaClO solution was mainly limited to the absorption of NO₂ rather than the oxidation of NO.

(a)

(b)

Figure 5: The change of (a) NO concentrations and (b) NO₂ concentrations in flue gas with initial pH of NaClO solution (gas flow is 1.25 L/min, inlet NOx concentration is 1000 ppm, NaClO concentration is in the range of 0.0125–0.1 M, and solution temperature is 293 K; solid points refer to inlet NOx concentrations and open points refer to outlet NOx concentrations).

3.2. Effect of Coexisting CO₂

During wet scrubbing process, CO₂ in flue gas would react with absorbent thus influencing the oxidation and absorption of targeted pollutants. As an acidic oxide, CO₂ was sensitive to the solution pH. The effect of coexisting CO₂ on NOx removal efficiency was investigated, and results were shown in Figure 6. It can be seen that, with initial solution pH increasing from 4 to 8, NOx removal efficiency was relatively stable. A complete removal of NO had been achieved and outlet NO₂ concentration was ~350 ppm. The coexistence of CO₂ had not affected the NOx removal efficiency so much. But the average CO₂ concentration in outlet gas changed obviously with initial solution pH. When initial solution pH was below 6, the average CO₂ concentration kept stable at 5%. However, it began to decrease quickly with initial pH increasing from 6 to 8.

Figure 6: The change of NOx removal efficiency and averaged CO₂ concentration in flue gas with initial pH (gas flow is 1.25 L/min, inlet NOx concentration is 1000 ppm, initial CO₂ concentration is 5%, NaClO concentration is 0.05 M, and solution temperature is 293 K).

The change of outlet CO₂ concentration during the cyclic scrubbing process was shown in Figure 7. When initial pH was in the range of 4–6, CO₂ concentration decreased to 4.4–4.5% at the start of the scrubbing process. Then it recovered to the initial level due to the hydrolysis equilibrium between CO₂ and absorbent solution. The hydrolysis reactions of CO₂ were described in (10) and (11). Furthermore, a certain amount of might be produced during the hydrolysis process, which would affect the chlorine hydrolysis equilibrium reactions as shown in (12) and (13). Since and had buffering ability to some extent, the hydrolysis of CO₂ would not influence the solution pH obviously when initial pH was in the range of 4–6. But with initial pH increasing from 6 to 8, the absorption of CO₂ might reduce the solution alkalinity, resulting in the decrease of the solution pH. Thus it was necessary to keep the solution pH at 6 in order to reduce the consumption of solution alkalinity when NaClO solution was adopted to remove NOx from flue gas.

When initial pH was in the range of 7-8, CO₂ concentration decreased largely at the very beginning of the cyclic scrubbing process. It suggested that much more CO₂ had been absorbed by the scrubbing solution due to the weak alkaline medium. With the proceeding of the scrubbing process, CO₂ concentration began to increase slowly. Although no evidence showed that CO₂ would react with NaClO directly, the hydrolyzation and absorption of CO₂ would increase the consumption of solution alkalinity obviously. It meant that extra alkaline solution was required to maintain the solution pH during cyclic scrubbing process, which would largely increase the operation complexity and cost at the same time. Thus initial pH of 6 might be appropriate for practical application.

Figure 7: The change of CO₂ concentration during the cyclic scrubbing duration (gas flow is 1.25 L/min, inlet NO concentration is 1000 ppm, initial CO₂ concentration is 5%, NaClO concentration is 0.05 M, and solution temperature is 293 K).

Figure 8 showed the change of NaClO solution pH after scrubbing for 20 min. With the proceeding of cyclic scrubbing process, the solution pH would decrease slowly due to the absorption of NOx and CO₂. It was worth noting that the solution pH increased from 4 to 4.63 for NaClO solution with initial pH 4. That was because active chlorine species in NaClO solution were mainly HClO and Cl₂ at pH 4, as shown in Figure 4. During the scrubbing process, Cl₂ would be purged out easily from the solution and reacted with NO effectively in gas phase as (14) and (15) [25]. The decrease of Cl₂ in NaClO solution would lead to a left shift of the hydrolysis equilibrium of active chlorine as shown in (16), resulting in the increase of solution pH for NaClO solution with initial pH 4.

It was possible that excessive Cl₂ escaped from NaClO solution might result in secondary pollution. In addition, acidic mist formed in the flue gas might result in the corrosion of operation system. In view of this, NaClO solution with pH 6 was appropriate for NOx removal in cyclic scrubbing mode.

Figure 8: NaClO solution pH after scrubbing for 20 min (gas flow is 1.25 L/min, inlet NOx concentration is 1000 ppm, initial CO₂ concentration is 5%, NaClO concentration is 0.05 M, and solution temperature is 293 K).

3.3. Effect of Coexisting O₂

For marine diesel engines, there was typical ~13% O₂ in exhaust gas. O₂ could partially oxidize NO under certain conditions, so it was necessary to investigate the effect of coexisting O₂ on NOx removal efficiency. In the experiments, only NO standard gas was used to prepare NOx in the initial simulated flue gas. The introduction of O₂ has oxidized a little of NO into NO₂ in the gas mixer. As shown in Figure 9, the initial NO₂ concentration in inlet gas increased almost linearly with the increase of NO concentration. When inlet NOx concentration was 1000 ppm, the initial NO₂ concentration reached 112 ppm.

With the NOx increasing from 250 to 700 ppm, the outlet NO concentration decreased gradually to 0. When inlet NOx concentration was higher than 700 ppm, NO could be removed completely. As expected, the outlet NO₂ concentration increased almost linearly with the increase of inlet NOx concentration. It indicated that NOx removal efficiency depended to a great extent on the absorption of NO₂ during the scrubbing process.

Figure 9: The change of NOx concentration with the initial NOx concentration (gas flow is 1.25 L/min, inlet O₂ concentration is 13%, inlet NOx concentration is in the range of 250–1000 ppm, NaClO concentration is 0.05 M, initial solution pH is 6, and solution temperature is 293 K; solid points refer to inlet NOx concentrations and open points refer to outlet NOx concentrations).

Figure 10 presented the change of NOx removal efficiency and outlet O₂ concentration with the initial NOx concentration. Since O₂ concentration was relatively high, it changed little during the scrubbing process. With the increase of NOx concentration from 250 ppm to 700 ppm, NOx removal efficiency increased from 47% to 74%. It could be ascribed to the improvement of the mass transfer at the gas-liquid interface. When O₂ was present in flue gas, NOx removal efficiency was a little higher than that without O₂ in flue gas. The existence of O₂ improved the NOx removal efficiency in way of partly oxidizing NO in initial flue gas.

Figure 10: The change of NOx removal efficiency and outlet O₂ concentration with the initial NOx concentration (conditions: gas flow: 1.25 L/min; inlet O₂ concentration: 13%; inlet NOx concentration: 250–1000 ppm; NaClO concentration: 0.05 M; initial solution pH: 6; solution temperature: 293 K).

3.4. Effect of NOx Concentration

The effects of NOx concentration on NOx removal are investigated, and the results are shown in Figure 11. It can be seen that, with initial NO concentration increasing from 250 ppm to 500 ppm, NOx removal efficiency increased from 43% to ~63%. NO could be removed completely when inlet NO concentration was higher than 500 ppm. Outlet NO₂ concentration increased quickly with the increase of inlet NO concentration, resulting in a relatively stable NOx removal efficiency.

(a)

(b)

Figure 11: The change of (a) NOx removal efficiency and (b) NOx concentrations with the initial NOx concentration (gas flow is 1.25 L/min, inlet NOx concentration is 250–1250 ppm, NaClO concentration is 0.05 M, initial solution pH is 6, and solution temperature is 293 K; solid points refer to inlet NOx concentrations and open points refer to outlet NOx concentrations).

3.5. Simultaneous Removal of NOx and SO₂

Marine diesel engines usually burn heavy fuel oil (HFO) in order to save the operating cost. At present, the mass concentration of sulphur (S) content in HFO was about 2.5% at average. The combustion of HFO fuel would produce a large amount of SO₂ in exhaust gas. Experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of coexisting SO₂ on NOx removal efficiency, and the results are shown in Figures 12 and 13.

(a)

(b)

Figure 12: The change of (a) NOx removal efficiency and (b) NOx concentration with the inlet NOx concentration (gas flow is 1.25 L/min, inlet SO₂ concentration is 600 ppm, inlet NOx concentration is 250–1250 ppm, NaClO concentration is 0.05 M, initial solution pH is 6, and solution temperature is 293 K; solid points refer to inlet NOx concentrations and open points refer to outlet NOx concentrations).

(a)

(b)

Figure 13: The change of (a) NOx removal efficiency and (b) NOx concentration with the initial SO₂ concentration (gas flow is 1.25 L/min, inlet SO₂ concentration is 200–600 ppm, inlet NOx concentration is 1000 ppm, NaClO concentration is 0.05 M, initial solution pH is 6, and solution temperature is 293 K; solid points refer to inlet NOx concentrations and open points refer to outlet NOx concentrations).

Figure 12 depicted the change of NOx removal efficiency and NOx concentration with inlet NOx concentration. A complete removal of SO₂ and NO had been achieved simultaneously. Due to its high solubility, SO₂ could be absorbed effectively by scrubbing solution. Then SO₂ was removed through the hydrolysis reaction as (18) and (19). The hydrolysis products of would be oxidized by active chlorine species into quickly. Thus the removal of SO₂ would consume the solution alkalinity and oxidants at the same time. The result demonstrated that NaClO solution could be used to remove NO and SO₂ simultaneously from marine exhaust gas. However, outlet NO₂ concentration increased gradually with the increase of inlet NOx concentration.

Figure 13 exhibited the effect of SO₂ concentration on NOx removal efficiency and NOx concentration in flue gas. The result showed that SO₂ together with NO was completely removed. But with the increase of inlet SO₂ concentration, NOx removal efficiency exhibited a slightly downside trend. This phenomenon could be ascribed to the competition reactions between NOx and SO₂. Some oxidants in the absorbent would be consumed through the hydrolyzation and absorption of SO₂. With inlet SO₂ concentration increasing from 200 ppm to 600 ppm, the pH of the scrubbed NaClO solution decreased from 5.25 to 4.52. The decrease of solution pH was negative for the absorption of NO₂ through (5) and (6).

3.6. Effect of Absorbent Temperature

The reaction temperature could greatly influence the diffusion, dissolution, and reaction characteristics of molecules or ions in liquid phase [19]. The effect of absorbent temperature on NOx removal was investigated, and the results were shown in Figure 14. Generally, the absorbent temperature was kept below 333 K in industrial application in order to reduce the supply of make-up water. So the absorbent temperature was chosen to be in the range of 293–333 K in the experiments. Figure 14 showed that NOx removal efficiency increased gradually with the increase of absorbent temperature. The highest NOx removal efficiency of 69% was achieved at 333 K. As NO could be removed by 100% easily, the increase of NOx removal efficiency resulted from the improvement of NO₂ absorption. This could be explained by the Arrhenius equation of the reaction rate constant. The increase of temperature could enhance the mass transfer of NO₂ to the absorbent, thus improving the absorption of NO₂ accordingly.

(a)

(b)

Figure 14: The change of (a) NOx removal efficiency and (b) NOx concentration with the absorbent temperature (gas flow is 1.25 L/min, inlet NOx concentration is 1000 ppm, NaClO concentration is 0.05 M, initial solution pH is 6, and solution temperature is 293–333 K; solid points refer to inlet NOx concentrations and open points refer to outlet NOx concentrations).

4. Conclusion

NOx removal by wet scrubbing using NaClO solution was studied based on a spraying reactor in a cyclic mode. The results showed that when NaClO concentration was higher than 0.05 M and initial solution pH was below 8, NOx removal efficiency was relatively stable, which was higher than 60%. The coexisting CO₂ (5%) had little effect on NOx removal efficiency, but the solution pH began to decrease with the proceeding of cyclic scrubbing process when initial pH was higher than 6. The coexisting O₂ (13%) could oxidize NO partially in the gas mixer, resulting in a little improvement of NOx removal efficiency. When initial NOx concentration was higher than 500 ppm, NO could be removed completely while outlet NO₂ concentration increased almost linearly with the increase of initial NOx concentration, resulting in a relative stable NOx removal efficiency. A complete removal of SO₂ and NO could be achieved simultaneously at 293 K, initial NaClO solution pH 6, and 0.05 M NaClO concentration. With the increase of inlet SO₂ concentration, the outlet NO₂ concentration increased slightly due to the decrease of solution pH. NOx removal efficiency increased with the increase of absorbent temperature. The relevant reaction mechanism for the removal of NOx and SO₂ by wet scrubbing using NaClO solution was also discussed. The results demonstrated that it was of great potential for NaClO solution to remove NOx from marine exhaust gas.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

This study has been financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 51402033 and 51479020), the Science and Technology Plan Project of China’s Ministry of Transport (Grant no. 2015328225150), the Doctoral Scientific Research Staring Foundation of Liaoning Province (Grant no. 201601073), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant nos. 3132017003 and 3132016326).

References

M. Guo, Z. Fu, D. Ma, N. Ji, C. Song, and Q. Liu, “A short review of treatment methods of marine diesel engine exhaust gases,” Procedia Engineering, vol. 121, pp. 938–943, 2015.

M.-W. Bae, “A study on the effects of recirculated exhaust gas upon NOx and soot emissions in diesel engines with scrubber EGR system,” SAE Technical Papers, 1999.

A. M. A. Attia and A. R. Kulchitskiy, “Influence of the structure of water-in-fuel emulsion on diesel engine performance,” Fuel, vol. 116, pp. 703–708, 2014.

X. Tauzia, A. Maiboom, and S. R. Shah, “Experimental study of inlet manifold water injection on combustion and emissions of an automotive direct injection diesel engine,” Energy, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 3628–3639, 2010.

Å. M. Hallquist, E. Fridell, J. Westerlund, and M. Hallquist, “Onboard measurements of nanoparticles from a SCR-equipped marine diesel engine,” Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 773–780, 2013.

J. Herdzik, “Emissions from marine engines versus IMO certification and requirements of tier 3,” Journal of KONES, vol. 18, pp. 161–167, 2011.

M. Magnusson, E. Fridell, and H. H. Ingelsten, “The influence of sulfur dioxide and water on the performance of a marine SCR catalyst,” Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, vol. 111-112, pp. 20–26, 2012.

T. Kuwahara, K. Yoshida, Y. Kannaka, T. Kuroki, and M. Okubo, “Improvement of NOx reduction efficiency in diesel emission control using nonthermal plasma combined exhaust gas recirculation process,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 2359–2366, 2011.

T. Kuwahara, K. Yoshida, T. Kuroki, K. Hanamoto, K. Sato, and M. Okubo, “Pilot-scale aftertreatment using nonthermal plasma reduction of adsorbed NOx in marine diesel-engine exhaust gas,” Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 65–81, 2014.

D. Xie, Y. Sun, T. Zhu, and L. Ding, “Removal of NO in mist by the combination of plasma oxidation and chemical absorption,” Energy and Fuels, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 5071–5076, 2016.

S. Zhou, J. Zhou, Y. Feng, and Y. Zhu, “Marine Emission Pollution Abatement Using Ozone Oxidation by a Wet Scrubbing Method,” Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 55, no. 20, pp. 5825–5831, 2016.

Y. S. Mok, “Absorption-reduction technique assisted by ozone injection and sodium sulfide for NOx removal from exhaust gas,” Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 118, no. 1-2, pp. 63–67, 2006.

E. B. Myers and T. J. Overcamp, “Hydrogen peroxide scrubber for the control of nitrogen oxides,” Environmental Engineering Science, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 321–327, 2002.

Z. Wang, Z. Wang, Y. Ye, N. Chen, and H. Li, “Study on the removal of nitric oxide (NO) by dual oxidant () system,” Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 145, pp. 133–140, 2016.

Y. Liu, Q. Wang, Y. Yin, J. Pan, and J. Zhang, “Advanced oxidation removal of NO and SO₂ from flue gas by using ultraviolet/H₂O₂/NaOH process,” Chemical Engineering Research and Design, vol. 92, no. 10, pp. 1907–1914, 2014.

H. Chu, T. W. Chien, and S. Y. Li, “Simultaneous absorption of SO₂ and NO from flue gas with KMnO₄/NaOH solutions,” Science of the Total Environment, vol. 275, no. 1-3, pp. 127–135, 2001.

R. Hao, Y. Zhang, Z. Wang et al., “An advanced wet method for simultaneous removal of SO₂ and NO from coal-fired flue gas by utilizing a complex absorbent,” Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 307, pp. 562–571, 2017.

Z. Han, S. Yang, D. Zheng, X. Pan, and Z. Yan, “An investigation on NO removal by wet scrubbing using NaClO₂ seawater solution,” SpringerPlus, vol. 5, no. 1, article 751, 2016.

Y. Zhou, C. Li, C. Fan et al., “Wet removal of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from simulated flue gas by Ca(ClO)₂ solution,” Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 1586–1595, 2015.

S.-L. Yang, Z.-T. Han, J.-M. Dong, Z.-S. Zheng, and X.-X. Pan, “UV-enhanced naclo oxidation of nitric oxide from simulated flue gas,” Journal of Chemistry, vol. 2016, Article ID 6065019, 8 pages, 2016.

L. Chen, C.-H. Hsu, and C.-L. Yang, “Oxidation and absorption of nitric oxide in a packed tower with sodium hypochlorite aqueous solutions,” Environmental Progress, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 279–288, 2005.

E. Ghibaudi, J. R. Barker, and S. W. Benson, “Reaction of NO with hypochlorous acid,” International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 843–851, 1979.

R.-T. Guo, W.-G. Pan, X.-B. Zhang et al., “The absorption kinetics of NO into weakly acidic NaClO solution,” Separation Science and Technology, vol. 48, no. 18, pp. 2871–2875, 2013.

S. Yang, Z. Han, X. Pan, Z. Yan, and J. Yu, “Nitrogen oxide removal using seawater electrolysis in an undivided cell for ocean-going vessels,” RSC Advances, vol. 6, no. 115, pp. 114623–114631, 2016.

M. K. Mondal and V. R. Chelluboyana, “New experimental results of combined SO₂ and NO removal from simulated gas stream by NaClO as low-cost absorbent,” Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 217, pp. 48–53, 2013.

C. V. Raghunath and M. K. Mondal, “Experimental scale multi component absorption of SO₂ and NO by NH₃/NaClO scrubbing,” Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 314, pp. 537–547, 2017.

J. Wang and W. Zhong, “Simultaneous desulfurization and denitrification of sintering flue gas via composite absorbent,” Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 1104–1111, 2016.

S. An and O. Nishida, “New application of seawater and electrolyzed seawater in air pollution control of marine diesel engine,” JSME International Journal, Series B: Fluids and Thermal Engineering, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 206–213, 2003.

Z. Han, S. Yang, X. Pan et al., “New experimental results of NO removal from simulated flue gas by wet scrubbing using NaClO solution,” Energy & Fuels, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 3047–3054, 2017.

N. Lahoutifard, P. Lagrange, and J. Lagrange, “Kinetics and mechanism of nitrite oxidation by hypochlorous acid in the aqueous phase,” Chemosphere, vol. 50, no. 10, pp. 1349–1357, 2003.

Y. G. Adewuyi, X. He, H. Shaw, and W. Lolertpihop, “Simultaneous absorption and oxidation of NO and SO₂ by aqueous solutions of sodium chlorite,” Chemical Engineering Communications, vol. 174, no. 1, pp. 21–51, 1999.

A. Mukimin, K. Wijaya, and A. Kuncaka, “Electro-degradation of reactive blue dyes using cylinder modified electrode: Ti/β-PbO₂ as dimensionally stable anode,” Indonesian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 285–289, 2010.