This paper introduces a combined homogeneous and heterogeneous SO3 production mechanism to quantify the interference of SO3 on the capture of Hg by unburned carbon (UBC) and activated carbon sorbents in flue gas from coal-fired power plants. This mechanism was validated against measurements at different locations along the gas cleaning systems at fourteen power plants representing the entire ra...

Adsolption and reaction of SO2 on Cu(100) at room temperature has been studied by means of S K-edge XAFS, AES, LEED, XPS and STM. It has been revealed that there are atomic S and SO3 with the stoichiometric ratio of 1:2 on the surface. This indicates that a disproportionation reaction of 3SOz(a)+S(a)+2S03(a) occurs at room temperature. The atomic S locates in the fourfold hollow site. SO3 adsor...

Two new examples of mixed metal copper(I) sulfites, namely, Na3Mn2Cu(SO3)4(H2O)5 (1) and NaMn4Cu(SO3)5(H2O)3 (2), have been synthesized and structurally characterized. The 1D structure of 1 is built from a chain of [Mn2Cu(SO3)4]3- bridged by Na+ ions whereas the structure of 2 features a complicated 3D framework in which Mn8O36 octanuclear clusters are bridged by sulfite anions and copper(I) io...

Electrophilic aromatic sulfonation of benzene with sulfur trioxide is studied with ab initio molecular dynamics simulations in gas phase, and in explicit noncomplexing (CCl3F) and complexing (CH3NO2) solvent models. We investigate different possible reaction pathways, the number of SO3 molecules participating in the reaction, and the influence of the solvent. Our simulations confirm the existen...

Emissions of sulfur trioxide (SO3) are a key component of plume opacity and acid deposition. Consequently, these emissions need to be low enough to not cause opacity violations and acid deposition. Generally, a small fraction of sulfur (S) in coal is converted to SO3 in coal-fired combustion devices such as electric utility boilers. The emissions of SO3 from such a boiler depend on coal S conte...

The crystallographic signatures and characterization data of two novel organically templated open-framework zinc-sulfites (NH3CH2CH2NH3)[Zn3(SO3)4], 1, and (CN3H6)2[Zn(SO3)2], 2, are reported for the first time, synthesized under hydrothermal conditions using different amines, namely, ethylenediamine and guanidine, to generate 2D (for 1) and 3D (for 2) assemblies with 4-, 6-, 8- and 12-membered...

Elliptic quantum groups can be associated to solutions of the star-triangle relation of statistical mechanics. In this paper, we consider the particular case of the Eτ,η(so3) elliptic quantum group. In the context of algebraic Bethe ansatz, we construct the corresponding Bethe creation operator for the transfer matrix defined in an arbitrary representation of Eτ,η(so3).

We have demonstrated a high-sensitivity, room-temperature quantum-cascade (QC) laser sensor for detection of SO2 and SO3 under conditions relevant to aircraft test combustor exhaust. Two QC lasers probe infrared absorption features at 7.50 and 7.16 microm for SO2 and SO3, respectively, with a common dual-beam detection system. We inferred a noise-equivalent absorbance of approximately 1 x 10(-4...

Prothrombin (Pro) activation by factor Xa generates the thrombin catalytic site and exosites I and II. The role of fragment 1 (F1) in the pathway of exosite I expression during Pro activation was characterized in equilibrium binding studies using hirudin(54-65) labeled with 6-(N-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl)amino)hexanoate ([NBD]Hir(54-65)(SO3-)) or 5-(carboxy)fluorescein ([5F]Hir(54-65)(...

A promising lead-containing waste recycling method, with sulfur conservation and reductive sulfur-fixing co-smelting process (RSFCS), is proposed. This work investigated the PbSO4 reduction equilibrium composition, phase conversions, microscopic transformation mechanisms during RSFCS at different temperatures, times, CO-CO2 mixtures using thermodynamic modeling, thermogravimetric analysis, x-ra...