Sorbent components containing halogen, calcium, alumina, and silica are used in combination during coal combustion to produce environmental benefits. Sorbents such as calcium bromide are added to the coal ahead of combustion and other components are added into the flame or downstream of the flame, preferably at minimum temperatures to assure complete formation of the refractory structures that result in various advantages of the methods. When used together, the components reduce emissions of elemental and oxidized mercury; increase the level of Hg, As, Pb, and/or Cl in the coal ash; decrease the levels of leachable heavy metals (such as Hg) in the ash, preferably to levels below the detectable limits; and make a highly cementitious ash product.

Sorbent compositions containing calcium and iodine are added to coal to mitigate the release of mercury and/or other harmful elements into the environment during combustion of coal containing natural levels of mercury.

Sorbent compositions containing calcium and iodine are added to coal to mitigate the release of mercury and/or other harmful elements into the environment during combustion of coal containing natural levels of mercury.

A system for dispersing sorbents to treat or remove flue gas pollutants can include a dispersion device with a venturi having an inlet, a throat, and an outlet. A sorbent supply can provide sorbent material to the dispersion device. A flue gas duct carrying flue gas streams traveling through the flue gas duct can include a port for attachment of the dispersion device to the port. In operational use, the dispersion device may be attached to the duct such that ambient air is drawn into the dispersion device and through the venturi. The air moving through the dispersion device can interact with and disperse the sorbent material into the duct for treating pollutants.

Disclosed is a process for cleaning a boiler, wherein, while fumes are emitted in a combustion chamber of the boiler and circulate up to exchangers of the boiler, an aqueous solution of dissolved magnesium chloride and/or sulfate and/or dissolved calcium chloride is injected into the combustion chamber in the form of droplets which, by vaporization of the water of the aqueous solution, then thermal decomposition, are transformed in the combustion chamber into magnesium and/or calcium oxide particles reacting in the combustion chamber by mixing with molten salts and/or molten oxides, present in the fumes, to crystallize these molten salts and/or to vitrify these molten oxides before these molten salts and/or these molten oxides come into contact with the exchangers. Also disclosed is a device for implementing this process and a boiler equipped with this device.

Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to electrochemical capture of Lewis acid gases from fluid mixtures are generally described. Certain embodiments are related to electrochemical methods involving selectively removing a first Lewis acid gas from a fluid mixture containing multiple types of Lewis acid gases (e.g., a first Lewis acid gas and a second Lewis acid gas). Certain embodiments are related to electrochemical systems comprising certain types of electroactive species having certain redox states in which the species is capable of binding a first Lewis acid gas but for which binding with a second Lewis acid gas is thermodynamically and/or kinetically unfavorable. The methods, apparatuses, and systems described herein may be useful in carbon capture and pollution mitigation applications.

The present disclosure relates to a cerium-zirconium-based composite oxide having gradient element distribution and a preparation method therefor. According to the present disclosure, the cerium-zirconium-based composite oxide having gradient element distribution is prepared by a step-by-step precipitation method. First, a zirconium-rich component is precipitated to form a crystal structure and a crystal grain stack structure which have high thermal stability, slow down the segregation of zirconium on a surface after high-temperature treatment, and reduce element migration among crystal grains; second, a cerium-rich component is precipitated to improve the cerium content of the surface layers of the crystal grains, improve the utilization rate of the cerium element, and improve the oxygen storage amount and the oxygen storage rate.

Devices, systems, facilities, and methods for post combustion capture of emissions from a natural gas generator used to power a data center disclosed herein. The facility includes a process for capturing and sequestering CO.sub.2 from a post combustion capture of the natural gas generator utilizing the heat from the flue gas and from the data center. The CO.sub.2 rich streams from the post combustion capture system are sent to sequestration of some form via a sequestration compressor, thereby reducing the overall emissions from the facility.

A system for offshore electricity generation and direct carbon dioxide sequestration includes an offshore marine platform on which is mounted a plurality of internal combustion engines. The marine platform is deployed above an offshore, subsea storage reservoir. The internal combustion engines drive electric generators to produce electricity. Flue gas from the internal combustion engines is directed to a carbon dioxide capture system adjacent the internal combustion engines and in fluid communication with the flue gas exhausts of the internal combustion engines. The carbon dioxide capture system captures gaseous carbon dioxide from the flue gas, and then injects the captured carbon dioxide directly into the offshore, subsea storage reservoir. Compressors in fluid communication with the carbon dioxide capture system may be utilized to increase the pressure of the captured gaseous carbon dioxide to a desired injection pressure. Electricity produced by the electric generators is conveyed to a land-based power grid.

A system for offshore electricity generation and direct carbon dioxide sequestration includes an offshore marine platform on which is mounted a plurality of internal combustion engines. The marine platform is deployed above an offshore, subsea storage reservoir. The internal combustion engines drive electric generators to produce electricity. Flue gas from the internal combustion engines is directed to a carbon dioxide capture system adjacent the internal combustion engines and in fluid communication with the flue gas exhausts of the internal combustion engines. The carbon dioxide capture system captures gaseous carbon dioxide from the flue gas, and then injects the captured carbon dioxide directly into the offshore, subsea storage reservoir. Compressors in fluid communication with the carbon dioxide capture system may be utilized to increase the pressure of the captured gaseous carbon dioxide to a desired injection pressure. Electricity produced by the electric generators is conveyed to a land-based power grid.