The present invention relates generally to the field of emission control equipment for boilers, heaters, kilns, or other flue gas-, or combustion gas-, generating devices (e.g., those located at power plants, processing plants, etc.) and, in particular to a new and useful method and apparatus for: (i) reducing the levels of one or more gas phase selenium compounds and/or one or more other RCRA metals, or RCRA metal compounds (regardless of whether such other RCRA metals or RCRA metal compounds are in the gas phase or some other phase); (ii) capturing, sequestering and/or controlling one or more gas phase selenium compound and/or one or more other RCRA metals, or RCRA metal compounds (regardless of whether such other RCRA metals or RCRA metal compounds are in the gas phase or some other phase) in a flue gas stream and/or in one or more pieces of emission control technology; and/or (iii) capturing, sequestering and/or controlling one or more gas phase selenium compound and/or one or more other RCRA metals, or RCRA metal compounds (regardless of whether such other RCRA metals or RCRA metal compounds are in the gas phase or some other phase) in a flue gas stream prior to desulfurization and/or in one or more pieces of emission control technology prior to one or more desulfurization units.

Disclosed are an activated carbon adsorption tower and a gas purification device. An activated carbon adsorption tower comprises an adsorption tower body (1), a gas inlet (2) and a gas outlet (3) arranged on the adsorption tower body (1); the adsorption tower body (1) is provided with an activated carbon passage (11), a swash plate (12) and a gas passage in communication with the gas inlet (2) and the gas outlet (3); the gas passage is separated by the swash plate (12) into a U shape or serpentine shape, making the gas passage pass through the same activated carbon passage (11) from the opposite direction at least once; and the activated carbon passage (11) is provided with flowing activated carbon inside and gas holes on the passage wall for communicating with the gas passages on both sides.

A method for extracting rare earth metals (e.g., lanthanides and/or actinides) from aqueous solution, the method comprising: (i) acidifying an aqueous solution containing said rare earth metals with sulfuric acid to result in an acidified aqueous solution containing 1-12 M concentration of sulfuric acid; and (ii) contacting the acidified aqueous solution with an aqueous-insoluble hydrophobic solution comprising a rare earth extractant molecule dissolved in an aqueous-insoluble hydrophobic solvent to result in extraction of one or more of the rare earth metals into the aqueous hydrophobic solution, wherein the rare earth extractant molecule has the following structure:

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wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 are independently selected from hydrocarbon groups containing 1-20 carbon atoms, provided that the total carbon atoms in R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 is at least 12; and R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are independently selected from hydrogen atom and hydrocarbon groups containing 1-3 carbon atoms.

An object of the present invention is to provide a chemical liquid purification method which makes it possible to obtain a chemical liquid having excellent defect inhibition performance. Another object of the present invention is to provide a chemical liquid. The chemical liquid purification method according to an embodiment of the present invention is a chemical liquid purification method including obtaining a chemical liquid by purifying a substance to be purified containing an organic solvent, in which a content of the stabilizer in the substance to be purified with respect to the total mass of the substance to be purified is equal to or greater than 0.1 mass ppm and less than 100 mass ppm.

A plasma abatement process for abating effluent containing compounds from a processing chamber is described. A plasma abatement process takes gaseous foreline effluent from a processing chamber, such as a deposition chamber, and reacts the effluent within a plasma chamber placed in the foreline path. The plasma dissociates the compounds within the effluent, converting the effluent into more benign compounds. Abating reagents may assist in the abating of the compounds. The abatement process may be a volatizing or a condensing abatement process. Representative volatilizing abating reagents include, for example, CH.sub.4, H.sub.2O, H.sub.2, NF.sub.3, SF.sub.6, F.sub.2, HCl, HF, Cl.sub.2, and HBr. Representative condensing abating reagents include, for example, H.sub.2, H.sub.2O, O.sub.2, N.sub.2, O.sub.3, CO, CO.sub.2, NH.sub.3, N.sub.2O, CH.sub.4, and combinations thereof.

A high temperature plate heat exchanger with low chromium rejection for fluids above 550 C. and a method of cooling a gas is suggested. The heat exchanger comprises a plurality of heat transfer plates made of a chromium-containing alloy, particularly high-temperature stainless steel or Ni-based chromium-containing alloy and having two heat transfer surfaces. The plurality of heat transfer plates comprise at least on one heat transfer surface of the heat transfer plates a chromium absorber coating comprising porous titanium dioxide over at least a first portion of the length of said heat transfer surface. The chromium absorber coatings of two adjacent heat transfer plates are facing each other.

A gas filtration device includes a self-supporting graphene layer (1) made of a graphene material. The graphene material includes graphene and/or functionalized graphene. The gas filtration device of the present invention enhances the filtration of pollutants in the atmosphere and effectively avoids secondary pollution.

(Technical problems to be solved) To provide a method for selecting mineral of molybdenum.

(Means for solving the problems) Composition comprising M13 phage for separating a substance containing molybdenum.

Sorbent compositions, comprising a solid sorbent, a dispersive agent, and optionally a capture agent for enhanced wet-Flue Gas Desulfurization (wFGD) or wet scrubber unit function in a flue gas pollutant control stream is disclosed. The sorbent composition may include a sorbent with a dispersive agent, designed to enhance the dispersion of the sorbent in an aqueous sorption liquid of a wet scrubber unit, and therefore may be especially useful in EGU or industrial boiler flue gas streams that include one or more wet scrubber units. The sorbent composition may also include a capture agent useful in sequestering mercury and bromine, as well as other contaminants that may include arsenic, selenium and nitrates.

The invention relates to a method of capturing a sintered product after sintering a waste gas in a semiconductor manufacturing process and its capturing device. The method comprises providing aerosolized water molecules to be entered into a reaction chamber of a waste gas treatment tank; and capturing a product generated after a sintering reaction of the waste gas by diffusion distributing of the aerosolized water molecules, wherein, the aerosolized water molecules are diffusion distributed between a bottom edge of a waste gas reaction end in the reaction chamber and a tank wall surrounding the reaction chamber. The present invention further provides a device for capturing a sintered product for implementing the method. The object of the present invention is to solve problems saying that a semiconductor exhaust gas is processed by a high temperature sintering treatment, the generated SiO.sub.2 powders, the WO.sub.2 powders or the BO.sub.2 powders are extremely fine, the F.sub.2 gas is small molecules, and it is not easy to capture them during a rear stage water washing program.