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Biotransformation of sulfur and nitrogen oxides in stack gases

Conference ·
OSTI ID:111474
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  1. Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States)
  2. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH (United States)
The Nation`s large supply of high sulfur coal and increasingly stringent emission regulation led to priority development of advanced innovative processes for treating pollutants in flue gases from coal combustion. The principal pollutants in flue gases, sulfur oxides (SO{sub 2},SO{sub 3}) and nitrogen oxides (NO{sub x}) cause acid rain. Thus, the Department of Energy`s Clean Coal Program is funding projects to commercialize technologies that minimize emission of sulfur and nitrogen oxides at power plants. This report describes the controlled use of bioconversion processes to remove the oxides from flue gas. Two bioreactor experiments were conducted to investigate the removal of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and carbon dioxide from stack gases.
OSTI ID:
111474
Report Number(s):
CONF-9504110--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English