Temperature-programmed decomposition desorption of mercury species over activated arbon sorbents for mercury removal from coal-derived fuel gas†

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4710-4716

  Uddin, Azhar ^a   Ozaki, Masaki ^a   Sasaoka, Eiji ^a   Wu, Shengji ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER GAS; COAL POWER; COMMERCIAL ACTIVATED CARBONS; FIXED-BED REACTORS; FUEL GAS; IMPURITY COMPOUNDS; INTEGRATED GASIFICATION COMBINED CYCLE PROCESS; IRON SULFIDE; IRON-BASED; LABORATORY SCALE; MERCURY CHLORIDE; MERCURY REMOVAL; MERCURY SPECIES; MERCURY SURFACE; REMOVAL PROCESS; TEMPERATURE-PROGRAMMED DECOMPOSITION; TIO; TUBE REACTORS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; EXPERIMENTS; FUELS; HELIUM; INERT GASES; IRON OXIDES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; PYROLYSIS; SORBENTS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; TEMPERATURE PROGRAMMED DESORPTION;

METAL RECOVERY;

EID: 70350452019     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef801068z     Document Type: Article

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