Cleaning Up Mercury Emissions
23 January 2008, 18:14
Categories: nanoparticles filtration
Washington University in St. Louis is partnering with Chrysler and a major Midwest utility company in a project to determine if paint solid residues from automobile manufacturing can reduce emissions of mercury from electric power plants. A Washington University environmental engineer has shown that titanium dioxide, which is found in paint solid residues from automobile manufacturing plants, can efficiently reduce mercury emissions without affecting other processes in the plant. Mercury is chemically bonded with titanium oxide, a process known as chemisorption, and thus is potentially easier to trap in the plant’s emissions scrubber system, research has found.
“Our ‘Paint to Power’ program in St. Louis is a recycling success story. Rather than filling up scarce landfill space, we are using these paint wastes to produce power for St. Louis residents and businesses,” said Deb Morrissett, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Chrysler.
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