title: Electrolytic treatment of mercury-loaded activated carbon from a gas cleaning system
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Center for Mineral Technology, Cidade Universitaria, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. lsobral@cetem.gov.br
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Sobral
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Barbosa