Recent developments in novel sorbents for flue gas clean up

Fuel Processing Technology

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1175-1197

  Liu, Yan ^a   Bisson, Teresa M ^a   Yang, Hongqun ^a   Xu, Zhenghe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flue gases; Mercury; Nitrogen oxides; Sulphur dioxide

Indexed keywords

COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; EMISSION CONTROL; FLUE GASES; FLUES; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; GASES; MERCURY (METAL); NITROGEN OXIDES; SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION; SORBENTS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; ZEOLITES;

AIRBORNE POLLUTANTS; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY SOURCE; FLUE GAS DESULPHURIZATION; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY REMOVAL; MULTIPLE POLLUTANTS;

MERCURY COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77955426865     PISSN: 03783820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2010.04.015     Document Type: Review

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