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Erschienen in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 1/2015

01.01.2015 | Original Paper

Removal of elemental mercury from gas stream using sulfur-functionalized silica microspheres (S-SMs)

verfasst von: Norasikin Saman, Khairiraihanna Johari, Hanapi Mat

Erschienen in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy | Ausgabe 1/2015

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Abstract

Silica microspheres (SMs) was synthesized and modified through impregnation with elemental sulfur (S8) and carbon disulfide (CS2) to produce sulfur-functionalized silica microspheres (S-SMs). The morphology of SMs did not change after modification, however, its pore characteristics and sulfur content as expected did change significantly. The elemental mercury adsorption rate and capacity from synthetic gas stream increased with the presence of sulfur compounds in the SMs. For instance, at bed temperature of 50 °C, the adsorption capacity and rate of adsorbents (SMs, S8-SMs and CS2-SMs) were (5.71, 37.24, and 83.41 µg/g) and (0.319, 0.749, and 1.922 µg Hg°/g min), respectively. It was observed that the adsorption rate and the capacity increased with bed temperature only for the SMs, while decreasing for the S-SMs. This might be due to different governing adsorption mechanisms for both types of adsorbents.

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Metadaten
Titel
Removal of elemental mercury from gas stream using sulfur-functionalized silica microspheres (S-SMs)
verfasst von
Norasikin Saman
Khairiraihanna Johari
Hanapi Mat
Publikationsdatum
01.01.2015
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy / Ausgabe 1/2015
Print ISSN: 1618-954X
Elektronische ISSN: 1618-9558
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-014-0753-4

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