An assessment of acid wash and bioleaching pre-treating options to remove mercury from coal

Fuel

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-186

  Dronen, Laura C ^a   Moore, April E ^a   Kozliak, Evguenii I ^b   Seames, Wayne S ^a  

^a University of North Dakota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid wash; Coal; Mercury

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; LEACHING; MERCURY (METAL); POWER PLANTS;

BIOLEACHING;

COAL;

EID: 0141484344     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-2361(03)00251-5     Document Type: Article

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