Screening of metal oxides and metal sulfides as sorbents for elemental mercury at elevated temperatures

Fuel

Volumn 97, Issue , 2012, Pages 783-795

  Couling, David J ^a   Nguyen, Hoang V ^a   Green, William H ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Coal gasification; Computational chemistry; Mercury

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION ABILITY; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CARRIER GAS; COAL POWER PLANTS; COAL-DERIVED SYNGAS; ECONOMIC IMPEDIMENTS; ELEMENTAL MERCURY; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ENERGY COST; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH TEMPERATURE SORBENTS; INTEGRATED GASIFICATION COMBINED CYCLE; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; METAL OXIDES; METAL SULFIDES; POTENTIAL MATERIALS; SORBENT MATERIALS; SYN-GAS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

ADSORPTION; COAL GASIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FLUE GASES; INERT GASES; MATERIALS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; RATING; SODIUM; SYNTHESIS GAS; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

MERCURY (METAL);

EID: 84861191506     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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