Chemical-mechanical bromination of biomass ash for mercury removal from flue gases

Fuel

Volumn 108, Issue , 2013, Pages 54-59

  Bisson, Teresa M ^a   Xu, Zhenghe ^a   Gupta, Rajender ^a   Maham, Yadollah ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   Yang, Hongqun ^a   Clark, Ian ^b   Patel, Manoj ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Capital Power Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Biomass ash; Chemical mechanical bromination; Coal fired power plant; Mercury emission control

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BIOMASS; COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; COAL FUELED FURNACES; COMBUSTION; EMISSION CONTROL; FIRE TUBE BOILERS; FLUE GASES; FLUES; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; MERCURY (METAL); MINING; SOLID WASTES; SORBENTS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; WASTE INCINERATION;

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; BIOMASS ASHES; BIOMASS COMBUSTION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTES; MERCURY EMISSION CONTROL; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON;

FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84883599693     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2012.02.035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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