Oxidation catalysts for elemental mercury in flue gases - A review

Catalysts

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 139-170

  Dranga, Beatrice Andreea ^a,b   Lazar, Liliana ^a   Koeser, Heinz ^b  

^a GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catalysts; Mercury oxidation; Noble metal; SCR; Transition metal oxide

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880530631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/catal2010139     Document Type: Review

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