Poultry manure as raw material for mercury adsorbents in gas applications

The quantity of poultry manure generated each year is large, and technologies that take advantage of the material should be explored. At the same time, increased emphasis on the reduction of mercury emissions from coal-fired electric power plants has resulted in environmental regulations that may, i...

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Published inJournal of applied poultry research Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 562 - 569
Main Authors Klasson, K.T, Lima, I.M, Boihem, L.L. Jr
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 2009
Subjects
01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
ACTIVATED CARBON
ADSORBENTS
adsorption
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
animal manure management
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
CHEMISORPTION
FLUE GAS
FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS
FOWL
gas emissions
MANURES
MERCURY
mercury adsorption
mercury emissions
pollution control
poultry manure
raw materials
REMOVAL
waste utilization
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Summary:The quantity of poultry manure generated each year is large, and technologies that take advantage of the material should be explored. At the same time, increased emphasis on the reduction of mercury emissions from coal-fired electric power plants has resulted in environmental regulations that may, in the future, require application of activated carbons as mercury sorbents. The sorbents could be injected into the flue gas stream, where they could adsorb the mercury. The sorbents (now containing mercury) would be removed via filtration or other means from the flue gas. Our preliminary work has demonstrated that activated carbon made from poultry manure can adsorb mercury from air with good efficiency. In laboratory experiments, an activated carbon made from turkey cake manure removed the majority of elemental mercury from a hot air stream. Other activated carbons made from chicken and turkey litter manure were also efficient. In general, unwashed activated carbons made from poultry manure were more efficient in removing mercury than their acid-washed counterparts. The results suggest that the adsorption of mercury was mainly due to chemisorption on the surface of the carbon. Other potential uses for the activated carbons are the removal of mercury from air and natural gas.
Bibliography:http://hdl.handle.net/10113/39259
http://dx.doi.org/10.3382/japr.2009-00011
ISSN:1056-6171
1537-0437
DOI:10.3382/japr.2009-00011