Insight into the unique oxidation chemistry of elemental mercury by chlorine-containing species: Experiment and simulation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1624-1629

  Byun, Youngchul ^a   Cho, Moohyun ^a   Namkung, Won ^a   Lee, Kiman ^b   Koh, Dong Jun ^b   Shin, Dong Nam ^b  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED REACTORS; CONCENTRATION OF; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; ELEMENTAL MERCURY; NO CONCENTRATION; OXIDATION CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION EFFICIENCY; REACTION TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION RESULT; SOLID PHASE REACTION;

CHLORINE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXPERIMENTS; OXIDATION;

MERCURY (METAL);

CHLORINE; MERCURY; NITRIC OXIDE;

CHLORINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION; PHASE TRANSITION; REACTION KINETICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; SOLID; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

CATALYSIS; CHLORIDES; CHLORINE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GASES; KINETICS; MERCURY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 77749295403     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902358u     Document Type: Article

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