Adsorption of elemental mercury on the residual carbon in coal fly ash

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1723-1730

  Serre, Shannon D ^a,b   Silcox, Geoffrey D ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUE GASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERCURY (METAL); PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; RATE CONSTANTS;

COAL FLY ASH; FLUE GAS STREAMS; RESIDUAL CARBON;

FLY ASH;

CARBON; COAL; MERCURY;

ADSORPTION; COAL; FLUE GAS; FLY ASH; MERCURY;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FLUE GAS; FLY ASH; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0034123636     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990680i     Document Type: Article

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