A candidate material for mercury control in energy production processes: Carbon foams loaded with gold
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In this article, a regenerable sorbent based on carbon foams impregnated with gold has been optimized to achieve the maximum mercury retention efficiency using the minimum amount of gold.About:
This article is published in Energy.The article was published on 2017-07-06 and is currently open access. It has received 16 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mercury (element) & Sorbent.read more
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Table 1. Textural properties of the activated carbon foams. 
Fig. 4. TEM micrographs of the activated coal foams (a) CF500 with 5% Au and (b) CF800 with 5% Au 
Fig. 3. SEM micrographs of activated coal foam CF800 with (a) 1% Au and (b) 5% Au 
Fig. 6. Mercury adsorption curves for a) CF500 and b) CF800 with 3% Au in an atmosphere containing CO2 and N2. 
Fig. 2. Relationship between the average gold particle size and the amount of gold in the activated coal foams 
Fig. 7. Mercury adsorption curves for a) CF500 and b) CF800 with 3% Au in an atmosphere containing CO2, N2 and SO2.
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Surface-Engineered Sponge Decorated with Copper Selenide for Highly Efficient Gas-Phase Mercury Immobilization
TL;DR: A newly designed electroless plating coupled with an in situ selenization method was developed to construct a copper selenide (Cu2Se)-functionalized commercial polyurethane sponge (PUS) as an efficient Hg0 trap, illustrating a versatile platform for the economic fabrication and practical application of advanced functional sponges in diverse environmental remediation.
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TL;DR: A review of the latest research advances in Hg0 abatement by mineral chalcogenides is presented in this paper, where the performance and application conditions of most typical typical sorbents for Hg 0 removal were introduced in detail.
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