Enhanced elemental mercury removal from coal-fired flue gas by sulfur-chlorine compounds

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 5410-5415

  Yan, Nai Qiang ^a,b   Qu, Zan ^a,b   Chi, Yao ^b   Qiao, Shao Hua ^b   Dod, Ray L ^a   Chang, Shih Ger ^a   Miller, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CO-INJECTION; COAL FIRED FLUE GAS; ELEMENTAL MERCURY; GAS-PHASE REACTIONS; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON; SECOND-ORDER RATE CONSTANTS; SULFIDE IONS; SULFUR MONOCHLORIDES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHARCOAL; CHLORINE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DESULFURIZATION; FLUE GASES; FLUES; GASES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METAL RECOVERY; OXIDANTS; PHASE INTERFACES; RATE CONSTANTS; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE REACTIONS;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

CARBON; CHLORINE; COAL; ION; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE; SULFUR;

ACTIVATED CARBON; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CHLORINE; FLY ASH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; SULFUR;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; FLUE GAS; KINETICS; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CARBON; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POWER PLANTS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SULFUR;

EID: 67650462887     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801910w     Document Type: Article

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