Electrolytic treatment of mercury-loaded activated carbon from a gas cleaning system
This study aimed at extracting the adsorbed mercury from the mercury-loaded activated carbon so as to recycling both, the elemental mercury and the carbon, after being reactivated. The process used in this study was the electro-oxidation of the mercury in a reaction system where the loaded carbon is acting as an anode, during the electrolysis of brine, the electrolyte of the cell.
Sobral
LG
Center for Mineral Technology, Cidade Universitaria, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. lsobral@cetem.gov.br
Santos
RL
Barbosa
LA