Aqueous and vapor phase mercury sorption by inorganic oxide materials functionalized with thiols and poly-thiols

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 87-96

  Makkuni, A ^a   Bachas, L G ^a   Varma, R S ^b   Sikdar, S K ^b   Bhattacharyya, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alumina; Diffusion; Dynamic capacity; Ligands; Pollution control; Power plant; Silica

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; DIFFUSION; MERCURY (METAL); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE COMPOSITION; POLLUTION CONTROL; POWER PLANTS; SILICA; SORPTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

AQUEOUS PHASE MERCURY; DYNAMIC CAPACITY; INORGANIC OXIDE MATERIALS; LIGANDS; MERCURY SORPTION; MOLAR RATIO; POLYTHIOLS; SULFUR CONTENT; THIOLS; VAPOR PHASE MERCURY;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 18344385005     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-004-0260-0     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Beauvais RA, Alexandratos SD (1998) Polymer-supported reagents for the selective complexation of metal ions: An overview. React Func Polym 36:113-123
2. Bhattacharyya D, Butterfield DA (2003) New insights into membrane science and technology: Polymeric and biofunctional membranes. Elsevier, Amsterdam
3. Bibby A, Mercier L (2002) Mercury (II) ion adsorption behavior in thiol-functionalized mesoporous silica microspheres. Chem Mater 14:1591-1597
4. 2+ adsorbents by non-ionic surfactant assembly. Microporous Mesoporous Mater 37:41-48
5. EPA (1997) Mercury study report to congress. Technical Report EPA-452/R-97-003, EPA, Triangle Research Park, North Carolina
6. Feng X, Fryxell GE, Wang L-Q, Kim AY, Liu J, Kemner KM (1997) Functionalized monolayers on ordered mesoporous supports. Science 276:923-926
7. Galbreath KC, Zygarlicke CJ (1996) Mercury speciation in coal combustion and gasification flue gases. Environ Sci Technol 30:2421-2426
8. Granite EJ, Pennline HW, Hargis RA (2000) Novel sorbents for mercury removal from flue gas. Ind Eng Chem Res 39:1020-1029
9. Gregg SJ, Sing KSW (1967) Adsorption, surface area and porosity. Academic Press, London
10. Ghorishi SB, Keeney RM, Serre DS, Gullett BK, Jozewicz WS (2002) Development of a Cl-impregnated activated carbon for entrained-flow capture of elemental mercury. Environ Sci Technol 36:4454-4459
11. Helfferich F (1995) Ion exchange. Dover, New York
12. Hornback JI (1998) Organic chemistry. Brooks/Cole, California
13. Hsi H-C, Rood MJ, Rostam-Abadi M, Chen S, Chang R (2001) Mercury adsorption properties of sulfur-impregnated adsorbents. J Environ Eng 128:1080-1089
14. Iler RK (1979) The chemistry of silica: Solubility polymerization colloid and surface properties and biochemistry of silica. Wiley, New York
15. Kostal J, Mulchandani A, Chen W(2001) Tunable biopolymers for heavy metal removal. Macromolecules 34:2257-2261
16. Krishnan SV, Gullett BK, Jozewicz W, (1994) Sorption of elemental mercury by activated carbons. Environ Sci Technol 28:1506-1512
17. Liu W, Vidic RD, Brown TD (2000) Impact of flue gas conditions on mercury uptake by sulfur-impregnated activated carbon. Environ Sci Technol 34:154-159
18. Marcus Y, SenGupta AK, Marinsky JA (2002) Ion exchange and solvent extraction, vol 15. Dekker, New York
19. Martinez RF, Rucandio MI (2003) Study of extraction conditions for the quantitative determination of Hg bound to sulfide in soils from Almaden (Spain). Anal Bioanal Chem 375:1089-1096
20. Martell AE, Smith RM, Motekaitis RM (1995) NIST critically selected stability constants of metal complexes. NIST Standard Reference Database 46 Version 20, NIST Standard Reference Data, Gaithersburg, Maryland
21. Mercier L, Pinnavaia TJ (1998a) Heavy metal ion adsorbents formed by the grafting of a thiol functionality to mesoporous silica molecular sieves: factors affecting Hg (II) uptake Environ Sci Technol 32:2749-2754
22. 2+) trapping. Microporous Mesoporous Mater 20:101-106
23. Miller TC, Kwak E-S, Howard ME, Bout DAV, Holcombe JA (2001) An in situ study of metal complexation by an immobilized synthetic biopolymer using tapping mode cell atomic force microscopy. Anal Chem 73:4087-4095
24. Nam KH, Gomez-Salazar S, Tavlarides LL (2003) Mercury (II) sorption from waste waters using a thiol functional adsorbent. Ind Eng Chem Res 42:1955-1964
25. 2 for mercury vapor control. J Nanoparticle Res 5:281-292
26. Pitzer KS (1991) Activity coefficients in electrolyte systems 2nd edn. CRC, Boca Raton, Florida
27. Ritchie SMC, Kissick KE, Bachas LG, Sikdar SK, Parikh C, Bhattacharyya D (2001) Polycysteine and other poly amino acid functionalized microfiltration membranes for heavy metal capture. Environ Sci Technol 35:3252-3258
28. Ruthven DM (1984) Principles of adsorption and adsorption processes. Wiley, New York, pp 180-183
29. SenGupta A K (2002) Environmental separation of heavy metals: engineering processes. Lewis, Boca Raton, Florida
30. Schmidt-Winkel P, Lukens WW, Zhao D, Yang P, Chemelka BF, Stucky GD (1999) Mesocellular siliceous foams with uniformly sized cells and windows. J Am Chem Soc 121:254-255
31. Shendrikar A, Damie A, Gutkneckt WF (1984) Technical report, EPA-600/7-84-089, US EPA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
32. Suzuki M (1990) Adsorption engineering. In: Chemical engineering monographs, vol 25. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 97-99
33. Vidic RD, Siler DP (2001) Vapor-phase elemental mercury adsorption by activated carbon impregnated with chloride and chelating agents. Carbon 39:3-14
34. Walcarius A, Etienne M, Bessiere J (2002) Rate of access to the binding sites in organically modified silicates. 1. Amorphous silica gels grafted with amine or thiol groups. Chem Mater 14:2757-2766