H2S-Modified Fe-Ti Spinel: A Recyclable Magnetic Sorbent for Recovering Gaseous Elemental Mercury from Flue Gas as a Co-Benefit of Wet Electrostatic Precipitators.

The nonrecyclability of the sorbents used to capture Hg0 from flue gas causes a high operation cost and the potential risk of exposure to Hg. The installation of wet electrostatic precipitators (WESPs) in coal-fired plants makes possible the recovery of spent sorbents for recycling and the centralized control of Hg pollution. In this work, a H2S-modified Fe-Ti spinel was developed as a recyclable magnetic sorbent to recover Hg0 from flue gas as a co-benefit of the WESP. Although the Fe-Ti spinel exhibited poor Hg0 capture activity in the temperature range of flue gas downstream of flue gas desulfurization, the H2S-modified Fe-Ti spinel exhibited excellent Hg0 capture performance with an average adsorption rate of 1.92 μg g-1 min-1 at 60 °C and a capacity of 0.69 mg g-1 (5% of the breakthrough threshold) due to the presence of S22- on its surface. The five cycles of Hg0 capture, Hg0 recovery, and sorbent regeneration demonstrated that the ability of the modified Fe-Ti spinel to capture Hg0 did not degrade remarkably. Meanwhile, the ultralow concentration of Hg0 in flue gas was increased to a high concentration of Hg0, which facilitated the centralized control of Hg pollution.

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