Characterization of mercury binding onto a novel brominated biomass ash sorbent by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 12186-12193

  Bisson, Teresa M ^a   MacLean, Lachlan C W ^b   Hu, Yongfeng ^b   Xu, Zhenghe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC   (Canada)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES; BIOMASS ASHES; BIOMASS COMBUSTION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; COORDINATION ENVIRONMENT; FIELD-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTES; LOCAL BONDING; MERCURY ATOMS; MERCURY CAPTURE; OXIDIZED MERCURY; X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURES; XAFS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; BIOMASS; BROMINE; CHEMISORPTION; COAL; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; SOLID WASTES; SORBENTS; SULFUR; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

MERCURY (METAL);

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORBENT; BROMINE; COAL; LIGNITE; MERCURY; SORBENT; SULFUR;

ASH; CHEMICAL BINDING; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; COMBUSTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LABORATORY METHOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SOLID WASTE; SORPTION; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ASH; ATOM; BIOMASS; BROMINATION; CHEMICAL BOND; METAL BINDING; OXIDATION; TEMPERATURE; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BIOMASS; BROMINE; COAL; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MERCURY; POWER PLANTS; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84868520942     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300991u     Document Type: Article

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