Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 256, Issue -, Pages 93-100Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.07.008
Keywords
Mercury; MnO2; Adsorption; Coal combustion; Density functional theory
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51376072, 51076055]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB238904]
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MnO2-based sorbents have been considered as potential materials for Hg removal due to their high adsorption ability and high activity in the catalytic oxidation of Hg in coal-fired flue gas. First-principles calculations based on the density functional theory and the periodic slab models were used to gain a fundamental understanding of mercury adsorption mechanism on MnO2(110) surface. The adsorption energies and adsorption structures of mercury species (Hg, HgCl and HgCl2) on MnO2(110) surface were calculated. The electronic structural changes of surface system before and after adsorption were investigated to better understand the surface reactivity. The potential energy diagram of different pathways of mercury species adsorption on surface were given in order to elucidate the mechanism of adsorption process. In addition, thermodynamic data based on statistical thermodynamic partition functions for mercury species adsorption were also calculated. The results show that Hg is strongly adsorbed on MnO2(110) surface with chemisorption. The energy diagrams of HgCl and HgCl2 adsorption and possible desorption show that HgCl and HgCl2 can exist stably on the surface because the desorption and dissociation are highly endothermic, yet there is still a possibility that HgCl dissociates and Hg desorbs from the surface. The trends of equilibrium constant suggest that mercury species adsorptions on MnO2(110) surfaces are favorable at low temperature and HgCl2 is more easily captured than Hg under high temperature. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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