Abstract

To develop cost-effective carbon-based sorbents used in gas-phase elemental mercury removal, the performance of commercial bamboo charcoal (BC) produced from renewable bioresource of bamboo and modified BC was investigated with a bench-scale fixed-bed reactor. The simple impregnation method was used to modify the BC using ZnCl 2, NH 3·H 2O and HNO 3 separately. BET, XPS, elemental analysis and FT-IR were used to determine the pore structure and surface chemistry of the sorbents. The characterization of the physical and chemical properties of sorbents in relation to Hg 0 adsorption capacity provided important information on the Hg 0 adsorption mechanism. This suggested that the modified BCs have excellent adsorption potential for elemental mercury at a relatively higher temperature of 140 °C except for the NH 3·H 2O impregnated BC. The amount of Hg 0 absorbed depends on the concentration of impregnant used. The impregnation has increased the sorbents’ active sites for mercury adsorption and the specific reaction mechanism has been further analyzed.

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