Mercury removal by thiol-functionalized metal oxide-carbon black sorbent and mixed-matrix membranes

Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 705-714

  Meeks, Noah D ^a,c   Davis, Erica ^a   Jain, Mohit ^b   Skandan, Ganesh ^b   Bhattacharyya, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b NEI Corporation   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

functionalization; polysulfone; silica; sulfonate

Indexed keywords

EQUILIBRIUM SORPTION; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; MIXED-MATRIX MEMBRANES; SORBENT MATERIALS; SORBENT PARTICLES; SORPTION CAPACITIES; SULFONATE; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION;

DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; MERCURY (METAL); METALLIC COMPOUNDS; POLYSULFONES; SILICA; SORBENTS;

SORPTION;

EID: 84880266274     PISSN: 19447442     EISSN: 19447450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.11690     Document Type: Article

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