• Carbon letters
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2001

Mercury has been identified as a potential health and environmental hazardous material. Activated carbon adsorption offers promising potential for the control of mercury emissions, and sulfur impregnated (sulfurized) activated carbons has been shown to be an effective sorbent for the removal of vapor phase $Hg{\circ}$ from sources. In this work, vapor phase mercury adsorption by sulfur impregnated activated carbons were investigated. Sulfur impregnated activated carbons were made by variation of impregnation temperature, and the comparison of adsorption characteristics with commercial virgin and sulfurized carbons were made. Factors affecting the adsorption capacity of virgin and sulfurized activated carbons such as pore characteristics, functional groups and sulfur impregnation conditions were discussed. It was found that the sulfur allotropes plays a critical role in adsorption of mercury vapor by sulfurized activated carbons.

• Carbon letters
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.187-191
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• 2002

In the present research, we prepared the activated carbon (AC) sorbents to remove gas-phase mercury. The mercury adsorption of virgin AC, chemically treated AC and fly ash was performed. Sulfur impregnated and sulfuric acid impregnated ACs were used as the chemically treated ACs. A simulated flue gas was made of SOx, NOx and mercury vapor in nitrogen balance. A reduced mercury adsorption capacity was obtained with the simulated gas as compared with that containing only mercury vapor in nitrogen. With the simulated gas, the sulfuric acid treated AC showed the highest performance, but it might have the problem of corrosion due to the emission of sulfuric acid. It was also found that the high sulfur impregnated AC also released a portion of sulfur at $140^{\circ}C$. Thus, it was concluded that the low sulfur impregnated AC was suitable for the treatment of flue gas in terms of stability and efficiency.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.1519-1523
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• 2021

Radioactive iodine (¹³¹I) released from nuclear power plants has been a critical environmental concern for workers. The effective trapping of radioactive iodine isotopes from the off-gas stream generated from nuclear facilities is an important issue in radioactive waste treatment systems evaluation. Numerous studies on retaining methyl iodide (CH₃I¹³¹) by impregnated activated carbons under the high content of moisture have been extensively studied so far. But there have been no good results on how to remove methyl iodide at high humid conditions up to now. A new challenge is to introduce other promising impregnating chemical agents that are able to uptake enough radioactive methyl iodide under high humid conditions. In order to develop a good removal efficiency to control radioiodine gas generated from a high humid process, activated carbons (ACs) impregnated with triethylene diamine (TEDA) and qinuclidine (QUID) were prepared. In addition, the removal efficiencies of the activated carbons (ACs) under humid conditions up to 95% RH were evaluated by applying the standard method specified in ASTM-D3808. Quinuclidine impregnated activated carbon showed a much higher decontamination factor above 1,000, which is enough to meet the regulation index for the iodine filters in nuclear power plants (NPPs).

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.72-79
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• 2003

The impregnated activated carbons were prepared by the incipient wetness method with the contents of $KIO_3$ varied from 1.0${\sim}$10 wt% as the impregnation material. The specific surface area and micropore volume of the rice hulls activated carbon were $2,600{\sim}2,800$ $m^2$/g and 1.1${\sim}$1.4 cc/g, respectively. With increasing the contents of impregnation materials, the surface area and micropore volume decreased by 3${\sim}$21%. However, The amounts of hydrogen sulfide adsorbed increased by 2.1${\sim}$2.8 times depending on the impregnation content. The optimum contents of $KIO_3$ were 2.4 wt%. Although the breakthrough time and adsorption capacity of hydrogen sulfide decreased with increasing temperature in the case of the unimpregnated activated carbons, they increased by 1.2${\sim}$ 3.2 times for the case of the impregnated activated carbons. The optimum aspect ratio(L/D) was 1.0 and the adsorption amount of hydrogen sulfide enhanced with increasing the gas flow rate. The regeneration temperature was determined as 400$^{\circ}C$ from the TGA experiment. The adsorption capacity of hydrogen sulfide with the impregnated activated carbon decreased gradually as the regeneration continued. The hydrogen sulfide adsorption amount of the regenerated activated carbon up to 4 times was still higher than that of the unimpregnated activated carbon.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.1403-1407
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• 2010

The adsorption characteristics of $CO_2$ gas on impregnated activated carbons with MEA (Mono-ethanolamine) and AMP (2-Amino 2-methyl 1-propanol) were studied to improve the adsorption ability of $CO_2$ gas on activated carbon. The equilibrium adsorption capacity of $CO_2$ gas was increased by increment of impregnation concentration up to 40 %, but decreased above 50 %. The adsorption capacity of activated carbon impregnated with AMP was higher than activated carbon impregnated with MEA. The breakthrough was fast according to increment of inlet concentration of $CO_2$ gas.

• Carbon letters
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• 제1권3_4호
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• pp.178-190
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• 2001

• Carbon letters
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.280-284
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• 2007

Samples of active carbon of $1150\;m^2/g$ surface area were impregnated with ammoniacal salts of copper, chromium and silver, with and without triethylenediamine. The samples of impregnated carbon were aged at $50^{\circ}C$, with and without 90% RH (relative humidity), for a little more than one year and chemically evaluated periodically. Initially copper (II) and chromium (VI) reduced very fast in the samples in humid atmosphere to the extent of 30% and 60% respectively in four months. These values were found to be unaffected by the presence of triethylenediamine (TEDA) indicating that the chemical did not retard the reduction process of chromium (VI) and copper (II). However, in the absence of humidity the reduction of the impregnants was significantly less (10-12%, w/w) in four months. It was quite evident; therefore, that the moisture was mainly responsible for the reduction of chromium (VI) and copper (II) species in impregnated carbons. The prolonged ageing of the samples with and without triethylenediamme after four months with and without humid atmosphere showed that the extent of reduction of chromium (VI) was very low, i.e. 5-10% and of copper (II) was 2-25%. Silver is not reduced due to carbon, as it remained unchanged in concentration on storage. The impregnated carbon samples (100 g) without triethylenediamine, which were aged at room temperature for 5 years in absence of humidity and unaged when evaluated against cyanogen chloride (CNCl) at a concentration of 4 mg/L and airflow rate of 30 lpm showed a high degree of protection (80- 110 minutes).

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.552-553
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• 2007

• 공업화학
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.280-285
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 KOH를 첨착한 활성탄에서 황화수소의 흡착특성을 동특성 실험을 통해 관찰하였다. 특히 수분과 산소 농도가 흡착특성에 미치는 영향을 확인하였다. KOH를 첨착시킨 활성탄의 표면적, 세공부피 및 크기 분포 등의 기공 특성들은 질소 흡탈착 등온선을 이용하여 측정하였으며, 흡착량은 Langmuir와 Freundlich 등온식으로 모사하였으며 KOH를 첨착시킨 활성탄에서 황화수소의 흡착량은 Langmuir 등온식으로 잘 묘사되었다. 산소 농도의 증가는 KOH 첨착 활성탄의 황화수소 흡착성능에 큰 영향을 나타내었다.

• 공업화학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.286-293
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• 1998

연소배가스로부터 $CO_2$를 선택적으로 분리하기 위한 활성탄 흡착공정 사용시 흡착능 향상을 위하여 $CO_2$와 친화력이 있는 화합물을 함침시키는 방법과 KOH를 함침시킨 후 고온에서 열처리하므로서 활성화시키는 방법이 사용되었다. 알칼리금속, 알칼리토금속, 또는 전이금속의 염화물을 함침시킨 활성탄에 대한 $CO_2$의 흡착량을 측정한 결과 함침 전의 활성탄의 흡착량보다 적었다. 이것은 함침되는 물질이 $CO_2$에 대한 친화력이 없이 단지 활성탄의 미세기공만 막는 결과임을 알 수 있었다. 알칼리금속수산화물 중 KOH를 함침시킨 활성탄에 대한 $CO_2$의 파과실험 결과 유입되는 기체에 수분이 있을 경우 흡착량이 증가했는데 이것은 KOH가 $CO_2$를 흡수하는 성질 때문이었다. 그러나 이 흡착제에 함친된 KOH가 $CO_2$와 반응하여 $K_2CO_3$로 변함에 따라 재현성이 없음을 알 수 있었다. KOH를 함침시킨 후 $800^{\circ}C$에서 열처리하여 활성화시킨 활성탄의 경우 함침된 KOH의 양이 증가할수록 $CO_2$의 흡착량이 증가했으며, KOH와 활성탄의 무게비(KOH/Activated-Carbon)가 4일 때 최대였다. 이 흡착제에 대해 온도별로 측정된 $CO_2$의 흡착량으로부터 Clausius-Clapeyron식을 이용하여 등량흡착열을 구했다. 그리고 고정층 파과실험을 통해 $CO_2$농도와 유속에 따른 파과특성을 살펴보았다.