Wednesday, April 29, 2009: 2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Room 6 (Tampa Convention Center)
#103 - Mercury and Other Trace Elements in Fuel: Emissions and Control I (TB007)
Topics will include, but not be limited to: • Mercury and other trace elements in fuels • Mercury and trace element chemistry in flue gas • Mercury chemistry in wet scrubbers • Measurement: challenges, solutions and continuous emissions monitors (CEMs) • Control technologies: development and status • Novel sorbents • Surface studies and reaction mechanisms for trace elements • Impact of control technologies on coal by-product utilization • Trace element capture from syngas • Catalysts for the oxidation of mercury • Impacts of sulfur trioxide on capture of mercury • Status of regulations for mercury
Cochairs:J. Karl Johnson
Evan J. Granite
2:00 PM103aIrreversible Capture of Mercury
David A. Atwood
2:40 PM103bUpdate on Global Mercury Emissions and Controls
Leonard Levin
3:20 PM103cSpecification Metrics for Activated Carbons Used for Mercury Control
Sid Nelson Jr.
3:45 PM103dScreening of Sorbents for Mercury Capture Using Ab initio Computations
Anubhav Jain, Seyed-A. Seyed-Reihani, C. Fischer, D. Couling, G. Ceder, William H. Green
4:10 PM103eFeasibility of Removal of Trace Impurities from Coal Derived Raw Syngas to Produce Ultra-Clean Syngas
Ty Nguyen
4:35 PM103fEffect of Flue Gas Oxygen and Water Vapor Content on High Temperature Capture of Mercury by MinPlus Sorbent
Sung Jun Lee, Jost O.L. Wendt

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