Apparatus and methods for removing mercury from fluid streams

Chemistry of inorganic compounds – Modifying or removing component of normally gaseous mixture

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C502S401000, C502S402000, C502S439000

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ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for removing mercury, and in particular elemental mercury, from a fluid stream by exposing the fluid stream to a polyethersulfone surface onto which has been loaded elemental iodine. Elemental iodine is loaded onto the polyethersulfone surface by immersing the polyethersulfone substrate in an iodine/ethanol solution, then removing the substrate from the iodine/ethanol solution and rinsing in ethanol.

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