Abstract: A process and apparatus are used for purifying dust- and pollutant-containing exhaust gases, which are first subjected in a first stage to a dry purification in a mass separator and are subsequently subjected in a second stage to an electrostatic purification in an electrostatic precipitator. In the second stage the exhaust gases are passed through one or more fields provided with liquid-wetted collecting electrodes, which define gas passages. The electrostatic precipitator also has an overflow trough and a collecting trough for each collecting electrode. Liquid supplied to the overflow trough flows onto the collecting electrode and then is collected in the collecting trough.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for the electrostatic purification of dust- and pollutant-containing exhaust gases in multiple-field precipitators are proposed. The exhaust gases are first subjected in a first stage to an electrostatic purification under dry conditions in gas passages defined by platelike collecting electrodes and are subsequently passed in a second stage through one or more fields defined by liquid-wetted collecting electrodes, which define gas passages. The liquid which is supplied in the second stage at the top ends of the collecting electrodes is laterally discharged from the precipitator and the substantially dry dust which is still collected in the second stage is fed to dust-receiving means.