Process Audits for Metals
MTS has developed extensive experience to determine the fate of mercury and other metals (arsenic, selenium) in processes. Using both empirical and computational models, the partitioning of mercury form inlet feeds to effluents and products has been determined in a variety of industrial processes including:
The key to determination of the fate of mercury in industrial processes is the understanding of the species of mercury present in process feeds and the chemical reactions that take place as mercury traverses the process pathways. MTS has conducted detailed research investigations of the chemical reactions of mercury in processes including:
- Reactions of mercury with steel and steel corrosion products (pipelines)
- Formation and thermal stability of mercury sulfides and selenides
- Speciation of mercury in hydrocarbons
- Evaporation of elemental mercury
- Speciation and partitioning of mercury in wastewater
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