High-temperature cleaning of hot industrial furnace gases by filtering elements made of porous permeable ceramics

The increasing consumption of energy in Russia increases the toxic impact of the power sector on the environment. A new technology of cleaning waste flue gases without cooling them provides not only their effective cleaning from aerosol impurities, but also recovers their substantial heat for producing electricity. It has become possible to solve these problems after the development of a highly porous permeable ceramic material and filter elements made of this material. This new material makes it possible to use hot flue gases as an alternative energy source. __________ Translated from Novye Ogneupory, No. 11, pp. 43–48, November, 2006.