A review on mercury in coal combustion process: Content and occurrence forms in coal, transformation, sampling methods, emission and control technologies

S Zhao, D Pudasainee, Y Duan, R Gupta, M Liu… - Progress in Energy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mercury, as a global pollutant, has raised worldwide concern due to its high toxicity, long-
distance transport, persistence, and bioaccumulation in the environment. Coal-fired power …

[HTML][HTML] Mercury speciation, transformation, and transportation in soils, atmospheric flux, and implications for risk management: A critical review

D O'Connor, D Hou, YS Ok, J Mulder, L Duan… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) is a potentially harmful trace element in the environment and one of the World
Health Organization's foremost chemicals of concern. The threat posed by Hg contaminated …

Mercury compounds characterization by thermal desorption

M Rumayor, M Diaz-Somoano, MA Lopez-Anton… - Talanta, 2013 - Elsevier
The ability to accurately determine metal mercury content and identify different mercury
species in solid samples is essential for developing remediation and control strategies. The …

Mercury loss and isotope fractionation during high-pressure and high-temperature processing of sediments: Implication for the behaviors of mercury during …

D Chen, D Ren, C Deng, Z Tian, R Yin - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Metamorphic rocks show much lower mercury (Hg) levels than sedimentary rocks, which
may be due to the loss of Hg during high-pressure and high-temperature conditions during …

Mercury transformations in resuspended contaminated sediment controlled by redox conditions, chemical speciation and sources of organic matter

W Zhu, Y Song, GA Adediran, T Jiang, AT Reis… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) contaminated sediments can be significant sources of Hg in aquatic
ecosystems and, through re-emission processes, to the atmosphere. Transformation and …

An assessment of the environmental fate of mercury species in highly polluted brownfields by means of thermal desorption

M Rumayor, JR Gallego, E Rodríguez-Valdés… - Journal of hazardous …, 2017 - Elsevier
High contents of mercury (Hg) have been found in old mining-metallurgy sites occurring a
widespread contamination and degradation of the land. The ability to identify the Hg species …

Methods and recent advances in speciation analysis of mercury chemical species in environmental samples: a review

M Amde, Y Yin, D Zhang, J Liu - Chemical Speciation & …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Mercury (Hg) and its compounds are much concerned for their high toxicity and wide
presence in the environment. Since the toxicity of Hg is species dependent, various methods …

Overview and challenges of mercury fractionation and speciation in soils

AT Reis, CM Davidson, C Vale, E Pereira - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Analytical procedures to assess mercury speciation in soils still lack consensus. This article
presents an overview of the mercury fractionation and speciation procedures used in soils …

Thermo-desorption: a valid tool for mercury speciation in soils and sediments?

AT Reis, JP Coelho, I Rucandio, CM Davidson… - Geoderma, 2015 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) speciation by thermo-desorption is considered an alternative to laborious
sequential chemical procedures; hence its popularity has increased in the last years. In this …

Legacy Mercury Re-emission and Subsurface Migration at Contaminated Sites Constrained by Hg Isotopes and Chemical Speciation

W Zhu, Z Li, P Li, J Sommar, X Fu, X Feng… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The re-emission and subsurface migration of legacy mercury (Hg) are not well understood
due to limited knowledge of the driving processes. To investigate these processes at a …