Enhanced photocatalytic oxidation of gaseous elemental mercury by TiO2 in a high temperature environment

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 289, Issue , 2015, Pages 235-243

  Shen, Huazhen ^a   Ie, Iau Ren ^a   Yuan, Chung Shin ^a   Hung, Chung Hsuang ^b   Chen, Wei Hsiang ^a   Luo, Jinjing ^c   Jen, Yi Hsiu ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Calcination temperature; Irradiation strength; Oxygen content; Photo oxidation of Hg0; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; GLASS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; OXIDATION; OXIDE MINERALS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CALCINATION TEMPERATURE; GASEOUS ELEMENTAL MERCURY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENT; OXIDATION EFFICIENCY; OXYGEN CONTENT; PHOTOCATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; TITANIUM DIOXIDES (TIO2);

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

GLASS; MERCURY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; GAS; TITANIUM;

CATALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IRRADIANCE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOOXIDATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY;

ARTICLE; GAS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOOXIDATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENT; HEAT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CATALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; GASES; HOT TEMPERATURE; MERCURY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POWER PLANTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84923377088     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2015.02.033     Document Type: Article

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