Effect of chemical activation of an activated carbon using zinc chloride on elemental mercury adsorption

Fuel Processing Technology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 812-817

  Hu, Changxing ^a   Zhou, Jinsong ^b   He, Sheng ^b   Luo, Zhongyang ^b   Cen, Kefa ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Chemical adsorption; Elemental mercury; Hg oxidation

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION CAPABILITIES; ADSORPTION EXPERIMENTS; CHEMICAL ADSORPTION; ELEMENTAL MERCURY; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HG OXIDATION; NITROGEN ENVIRONMENTS; PHYSICAL ADSORPTIONS; STEAM ACTIVATIONS; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; ZINC CHLORIDES;

ACTIVATED CARBON; CHARCOAL; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GAS ADSORPTION; MERCURY (METAL); NITROGEN; OXIDATION; ZINC;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 67349283501     PISSN: 03783820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2009.03.020     Document Type: Article

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