Study of elemental mercury re-emission in a simulated wet scrubber

Fuel

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-101

  Omine, Naruhito ^a   Romero, Carlos E ^b   Kikkawa, Hirofumi ^a   Wu, Song ^c   Eswaran, Sandhya ^c  

^a Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Ltd   (Japan)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Hitachi Power Systems America Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqueous chemistry; Coal fired power plants; Mercury re emission; Wet scrubbers

Indexed keywords

ACID GAS; AQUEOUS CHEMISTRY; BROMIDE IONS; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; ELEMENTAL MERCURY; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; EXCESS OXYGEN; FORCED OXIDATION; HIGH AVAILABILITY; IONIC MERCURY; LABORATORY SCALE; MERCURY CAPTURE; MERCURY REMOVAL; MERCURY SULFIDE; OXIDIZED MERCURY; OXY-FUELS; OXYFUEL COMBUSTION; PH VALUE; RE-EMISSION; SCRUBBING SOLUTION; SLURRY TEMPERATURE; SODIUM SULFIDES; SUPPRESSION EFFECTIVENESS; TOXIC POLLUTANTS; WET SCRUBBERS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; COAL FUELED FURNACES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUE GASES; FLUES; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; FUELS; GAS PLANTS; GASES; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; IONS; PH EFFECTS; SCRUBBERS; SLURRIES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WASTE INCINERATION;

MERCURY (METAL);

EID: 80054980827     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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