Mercury is known as harmful element and significant negative effect on human and living creatures. The current study investigates the effective removal of toxic mercury from aqueous solution by reverse osmosis with low pressure. The various operating conditions as concentration, time and pressure used for the rejection study. The rejection study carried out in both terms as adsorption and pore size for long term (48 h) and achieved 99% mercury rejection. Further, the fouling propensity of membranes was studied and the fouling layer formed on the surface of the membranes was analyzed by the AFM imaging and the flux recovery ratio of the membranes was also calculated. The compatibility, thermal stability, hydrophilicity, surface energy, and morphology of the membranes were systematically investigated.

People have been concerned about mercury emissions for decades because of the extreme toxicity, persistence, and bioaccumulation of methyl Hg transformed from emitted Hg. This paper presents an overview of research related to mercury control technology and identifies areas requiring additional research and development. It critically reviews measured mercury emissions progress in the development of promising control technologies. This review provides useful information to scientists and engineers in this field.

Public concern has recently increased over the potential risk of toxic elements emitted from anthropogenic sources. Among these, mercury has drawn special attention owing to its increasing level of bioaccumulation in the environment and in the food chain, with potential risks for human health. This paper presents an overview of research related to mercury control technology and identifies areas requiring additional research and development. It critically reviews measured mercury emissions progress in the development of promising control technologies, including catalytic oxidation, sorbent injection, photochemistry oxidation, and air pollution control devices.

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℃. Thus, it was concluded that the low sulfur impregnated AC was suitable for the treatment of flue gas in terms of stability and efficiency.

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˚ 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.

수은 및 수은화합물의 배출로부터 국민의 건강 및 환경을 보호하기 위하여 국제수은협약(Minamata Convention on Mercury)이 채택되었다. 수은은 체내 비교적 미량이 노출되어도 생물체에 강한 독성을 나타낸다. 또한 수은으로 오염된 폐기물을 처리 및 처분하는 과정에서 수은이 환경으로 유출될 가능성이 존재하여 배출 규제 강화 및 관리에 관심이 집중되고 있다. 공정에서 배출되는 액상 수은 폐기물에는 용해된 수은 및 수은화합물과 고형물 형태의 것이 함유되어 있다. 따라서 폐기물의 특성에 적합한 수은의 제어가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 국내 산업시설에서 공정부산물로 발생하는 액상 수은 폐기물을 처리하기 위하여, 총 ６단으로 구성된 흡착설비를 구축하였다. 1~2단계는 각각 10㎛, 5㎛입경의 섬유 필터(MICRO Filter)를 사용하였다. HgCl2는 타 수은화합물에 비하여 수용성이 크고 폐수에 잔류할 가능성이 높다. 따라서 3~5단계는 Cl2제거 효과가 있는 활성탄 필터(CTO Filter)를 사용하였다. 액상 수은 폐기물의 처리 용량을 평가하기 위해 시료의 투입 유량 60 L/hr, 90 L/hr 및 150 L/hr로 달리하여 실험을 진행하였다. MICRO 필터 및 활성탄 필터(CTO Filter)의 수은 제거 효율은 최종단계에서 각 유량별로 96%, 92%, 86%으로 확인되었다. 액상 폐기물 시료에서 수은 화합물을 제거하는데 사용된 필터의 수은 함유 농도를 분석한 결과, 30.3~61.8 mg-Hg/kg으로 분석되었다. 액상 폐기물 수은 제거를 위하여 사용된 필터는 수은 오염 폐기물로써 적정 처리가 필요하다. 시료에 함유된 수은 화합물의 특성에 적합한 필터의 개발 및 사용된 필터의 적정 처리 방법에 대한 연구가 필요하다.

Ocean dumping of sewage sludge has been prohibited since 2012. Therefore, various methods to recycle sewage sludgeare studied And the adsorption is used to remove mercury released to the atmosphere. Chlorine and Iodine impregnatedadsorbent is used to remove mercury in the flue gas. In our study, we studied the method to recycle sewage sludge andbrewers grain as an adsorbent to remove mercury. Thermal treating time and temperature, and mixing ratio of sewage sludgeand brewers grain are discussed for the preparation of adsorbent. According to the results, the optimal condition oftemperature, time and mixing ratio was 400oC, 45min and 7:3 of sewage sludge/brewers grain, respectively. Theimpregnation of I is needed to keep the concentration of KI above 7%. I and Cl are dispersed uniformly in prepared adsorbent.

Removal of elemental mercury (Hg0) with the reactive species produced from dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) was studied. We investigated the effect of operating parameters such as the applied voltage, residence time, initial concentration and co-existence of other pollutants. The removal of Hg0 was significantly promoted by an increase in the applied voltage of the DBD reactor system. It is important to note that at the same input power, the removal efficiency of Hg0 was much higher than that of NO gas. These results imply that if the DBD system is used as a NOx treatment facility, it is capable of removing Hg0 simultaneously with NOx.