Adsorption of vapor-phase elemental mercury (Hg0) and mercury chloride (HgCl2) with innovative composite activated carbons impregnated with Na2S and S0 in different sequences

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 229, Issue , 2013, Pages 469-476

  Ie, Iau Ren ^a   Hung, Chung Hsuang ^b   Jen, Yi Shiu ^a   Yuan, Chung Shin ^a   Chen, Wei Hsiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Composite activated carbons; Elemental mercury; Mercury chloride; Sulfur impregnation sequence; Thermogravimetric analysis

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION TEMPERATURE; ADSORPTIVE CAPACITY; COMPOSITE ACTIVATED; ELEMENTAL MERCURY; GASEOUS ELEMENTAL MERCURY; MERCURY CHLORIDE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON;

ACTIVATED CARBON; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; IMPREGNATION; MERCURY (METAL); SODIUM; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; VAPORS;

GAS ADSORPTION;

EID: 84880343961     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.06.059     Document Type: Article

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