Dioxins reformation and destruction in secondary copper smelting fly ash under ball milling

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Cagnetta, Giovanni ^a   Hassan, Mohammed Mansour ^a   Huang, Jun ^a   Yu, Gang ^a   Weber, Roland ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b POPs Environmental Consulting   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM OXIDE; COPPER; DIOXIN; FLY ASH; OXIDE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; FLY ASH; MECHANICS; METALLURGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SPECTROMETRY; TIME FACTOR;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHMS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; COAL ASH; COPPER; DIBENZOFURANS, POLYCHLORINATED; DIOXINS; MECHANICAL PHENOMENA; METALLURGY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDES; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXINS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84961124170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22925     Document Type: Article

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