Sulfur-tolerant Mn-Ce-Ti sorbents for elemental mercury removal from flue gas: Mechanistic investigation by XPS

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 8634-8644

  Reddy, Gunugunuri K ^a   He, Juan ^b   Thiel, Stephen W ^a   Pinto, Neville G ^b   Smirniotis, Panagiotis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b Speed School of Engineering University of Louisville ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ATOMS; CERIUM; COPRECIPITATION; IMPREGNATION; MANGANESE OXIDE; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; SORBENTS; SORPTION; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE PROGRAMMED DESORPTION; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

FLUORITE STRUCTURE; IMPREGNATION METHODS; SEQUENTIAL IMPREGNATION; SIMULTANEOUS PRECIPITATION; STRUCTURAL INTERACTIONS; SURFACE ATOMIC RATIO; TEMPERATURE-PROGRAMMED REDUCTION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION MEASUREMENTS;

MANGANESE;

EID: 84929103293     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp512185s     Document Type: Article

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