Removal of vapor-phase elemental mercury from stack emissions with sulfur-impregnated activated carbon

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 230, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-34

  Sowlat, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Abdollahi, Mohammad ^b   Gharibi, Hamed ^c   Yunesian, Masud ^a   Rastkari, Noushin ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHROUD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; MERCURY; SULFUR;

ADSORPTION; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; EVALUATION STUDY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADSORPTION; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHARCOAL; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; MERCURY; SULFUR;

EID: 84902156155     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04411-8_1     Document Type: Article

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