Modeling of mercury oxidation and adsorption by cupric chloride-impregnated carbon sorbents

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 9049-9053

  Lee, Sang Sup ^a,c   Lee, Joo Youp ^b   Khang, Soon Jai ^b   Keener, Tim C ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION MECHANISM; CUPRIC CHLORIDE; ENTRAINED FLOW; FREE CARBON; IMPREGNATED ACTIVATED CARBON; IMPREGNATED CARBONS; INJECTION LEVELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MERCURY OXIDATIONS; OXIDIZED MERCURY; READSORPTION;

ADSORPTION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; MERCURY (METAL); OXIDATION; SORBENTS;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

EID: 70349695827     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie900619v     Document Type: Article

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