Impacting factors of elemental mercury re-emission across a lab-scale simulated scrubber

Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 523-528

  Wu, Chengli ^a,b   Cao, Yan ^b   Dong, Zhongbing ^a   Pan, Weiping ^b  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

elemental mercury re emission; impacting factors; simulated scrubber; sulfite; transitional metal ions

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTAL MERCURY; IMPACTING FACTOR; RE-EMISSION; SIMULATED SCRUBBER; TRANSITIONAL METAL IONS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DESULFURIZATION; DISSOLUTION; FLUE GASES; LEAD; METAL IONS; METALS; SCRUBBERS; SLURRIES;

MERCURY (METAL);

EID: 77954197221     PISSN: 10049541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1004-9541(10)60253-4     Document Type: Article

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