Battersea Power Station: Difference between revisions

The reduction of [[sulphur]] emissions was an important factor from when the station was in the design stages, as it was one of the main concerns of the protesters. The London Power Company developed an experimental technique for [[Flue-gas desulfurization|washing flue gases]] in 1925. It used water and alkaline sprays over scrubbers of steel and timber in flue ducts. The gases were subject to continuous washing,; as to the principal acid pollutant by using the catalyst [[iron oxide]], the [[sulphur dioxide]] was converted into [[sulphuric acid]]. The plant was one of the world's first commercial applications of this technique. This process was stopped in the B Station in the 1960s, when it was discovered that the discharge of these products into the Thames was more harmful than sulphur dioxide would be to the atmosphere.<ref name=page_title />