Increasing oxygen functional groups of activated carbon with non-thermal plasma to enhance mercury removal efficiency for flue gases

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 263, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-8

  Zhang, Bi ^a   Xu, Ping ^a   Qiu, Yong ^a   Yu, Qiao ^a   Ma, Jingjing ^a   Wu, Hui ^a   Luo, Guangqian ^a   Xu, Minghou ^a   Yao, Hong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Flue gas; Functional group; Mercury; Non thermal plasma; Temperature programmed desorption

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; CARBON; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DESORPTION; EFFICIENCY; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FLUE GASES; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; QUARTZ; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; TEMPERATURE PROGRAMMED DESORPTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION AND DESORPTIONS; BRUNAUER-EMMETT-TELLER SURFACE AREAS; CHEMICAL TREATMENT METHOD; DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; NON-THERMAL PLASMA TREATMENT; NONTHERMAL PLASMA; OXYGEN FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; QUARTZ TUBE REACTORS;

MERCURY (METAL);

EID: 84920103980     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.10.090     Document Type: Article

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