Importance of activated carbon's oxygen surface functional groups on elemental mercury adsorption

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Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 451-457

  Li, Y H ^a,b   Lee, Chun Wai ^a   Gullett, B K ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activated carbons; Mercury adsorption; Oxygen functional groups

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HEAT TREATMENT; MERCURY (METAL); OXYGEN; TEMPERATURE PROGRAMMED DESORPTION; TITRATION;

MERCURY ADSORPTION;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

EID: 0037333078     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-2361(02)00307-1     Document Type: Article

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