Removal of heavy metals occurring in the washing water of flue gas purification

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 196-203

  Decostere, Bjorge ^a   Hogie, Joel ^a   Dejans, Pascal ^a   Van Hulle, Stijn W H ^a,b  

^a Hogeschool West Vlaanderen   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Heavy metals; Optimization; Physical chemical treatment

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BELGIUM; CENTRAL COMPOSITES; CHEMICAL CONSUMPTION; CHEMICAL USE; COST PRICES; EFFLUENT QUALITIES; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS; FLOCCULATION AGENTS; FLUE GAS PURIFICATIONS; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATIONS; INCINERATION PLANTS; INPUT VARIABLES; JAR TESTS; KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; OPTIMIZATION STUDIES; PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL TREATMENT; SAFETY PRECAUTIONS; WASHING WATERS;

AGENTS; AIR CLEANERS; BENCHMARKING; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CHEMICAL PLANTS; CHEMICAL WATER TREATMENT; COAGULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DEWATERING; EFFLUENTS; FLOCCULATION; FLUE GASES; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; HEAVY METALS; HEAVY WATER; INCINERATION; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); METAL RECOVERY; METAL REFINING; METALS; OPTIMIZATION; PURIFICATION; SODIUM; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; WASHING; WATER QUALITY;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EID: 64549162346     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2008.12.025     Document Type: Article

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