Using bromine gas to enhance mercury removal from flue gas of coal-fired power plants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1405-1412

  Liu, Shou Heng ^a,c   Yan, Nai Qiang ^a,d   Liu, Zhao Rong ^a,e   Qu, Zan ^a,d   Wang, H Paul ^a,c   Chang, Shih Ger ^a   Miller, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COAL FIRED BOILERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLUE GASES; MERCURY (METAL); OXIDATION;

RAPID ADSORPTION; VAN DER WAALS CLUSTERS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

BROMINE; COAL; MERCURY;

ADSORPTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; COAL FIRED BOILERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLUE GASES; MERCURY (METAL); OXIDATION;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; BROMINE; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; FLY ASH; GAS PHASE REACTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION; REACTION RATE; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT;

ADSORPTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FLUE GAS; FLY ASH; GAS; OXIDATION; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33847243372     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061705p     Document Type: Article

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