Publications related to Mercury poisoning

Modelling the coupled mercury-halogen-ozone cycle in the central Arctic during spring

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot, Jenny Thomas

Near-surface mercury and ozone depletion events occur in the lowest part of the atmosphere during Arctic spring. Mercury depletion is the first step in a process that transforms long-lived elemental mercury to more reactive forms within the Arctic that are ...

2023

Evidence that Pacific tuna mercury levels are driven by marine methylmercury production and anthropogenic inputs

Hélène Paule Angot

Pacific Ocean tuna is among the most-consumed seafood products but contains relatively high levels of the neurotoxin methylmercury. Limited observations suggest tuna mercury levels vary in space and time, yet the drivers are not well understood. Here, we m ...

National Academy of Sciences2022

Poisoning of Mn-Ce/AC catalysts for low-temperature NH3-SCR of NO by K+ and its counter-ions (Cl- /NO3- /SO42- )

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Rob Jeremiah G. Nuguid, Jie Yang

Mn-Ce/AC catalysts for low-temperature NH3-SCR of NOx were deliberately loaded with various potassium salts (KCl, KNO3, and K2SO4) to investigate the influence of the counter-ions on the poisoning impact. Whereas K salts poisoning had only marginal impact ...

ELSEVIER2022

What are the likely changes in mercury concentration in the Arctic atmosphere and ocean under future emissions scenarios?

Hélène Paule Angot

Arctic mercury (Hg) concentrations respond to changes in anthropogenic Hg emissions and environmental change. This manuscript, prepared for the 2021 Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Mercury Assessment, explores the response of Arctic Ocean Hg con ...

2022

Understanding the impact of poison distribution on the performance of Diesel oxidation catalysts

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri

Detailed understanding of the poisoning mechanism in Diesel oxidation catalysts (DOCs) is the key to prevent long term catalyst deterioration in vehicles. The present work studies artificial phosphorus (P) poisoning methods applied to a commercial DOC. Cor ...

ELSEVIER2021

Atmospheric mercury sources in a coastal-urban environment: a case study in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Hélène Paule Angot

Mercury (Hg) is an environmental toxicant dangerous to human health and the environment. Its anthropogenic emissions are regulated by global, regional, and local policies. Here, we investigate Hg sources in the coastal city of Boston, the third largest met ...

2021

Mechanistic Investigations of Nickamine-catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Alkenes: Nickel Nanoparticles Are the Active Species

Xile Hu, Marten Leendert Ploeger

Hydrosilylation is an important chemical process for the synthesis of organosilanes and for the production of silicone polymers. The wide variety of catalysts developed for this reaction generally follow a Chalk-Harrod, or a sigma-bond metathesis mechanism ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2020

Improving Heterogeneous Catalyst Stability for Liquid-phase Biomass Conversion and Reforming

Jeremy Luterbacher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Bartosz Rozmyslowicz

Biomass is a possible renewable alternative to fossil carbon sources. Today, many bio-resources can be converted to direct substitutes or suitable alternatives to fossil-based fuels and chemicals. However, catalyst deactivation under the harsh, often liqui ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2015

Equation of state of liquid mercury to 520 K and 7 GPa from acoustic velocity measurements

Livia Eleonora Bove Kado

Ultrafast acoustics measurements on liquid mercury have been performed at high pressure and temperature in a diamond anvil cell using picosecond acoustic interferometry. We extract the density of mercury from adiabatic sound velocities using a numerical it ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Three-dimensional microstructural mapping of poisoning phases in the Neodymium Nickelate solid oxide fuel cell cathode

Jan Van Herle, Josef Andreas Schuler, Henning Lübbe, Jun Wang

Nd-Nickelate (NNO), Nd1.95NiO4+delta, an alternative solid oxide fuel cell cathode material, has been imaged and mapped in 3D using synchrotron-based x-ray nanotomography. The NNO cathode material, which suffered from silicon contamination during fabricati ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Mercury is a direct and potent γ-secretase inhibitor affecting Notch processing and development in Drosophila

Bruno Lemaitre, Patrick Fraering, Mitko Dimitrov, Takayuki Kuraishi, Isabelle Chang

Prenatal exposure to mercury causes neurodevelopmental disorders and neurological pathologies in infants, such as microcephaly and mental retardation. Despite critical importance, the molecular interactions leading to mercury toxicity are yet to be elucida ...

2011

TEM investigation on zirconate formation and chromium poisoning in LSM/YSZ cathode

Jan Van Herle, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Antonin Faes, Josef Andreas Schuler, Zacharie Wuillemin

Cell durability is a crucial technological issue for SOFC commercialization, and considerable progress has been made in recent years. A number of degradation pathways have been established, amongst which microstructural changes, poisoning effects and forma ...

Springer Verlag2011

Sulphur poisoning of Ni catalysts in the SNG production from biomass: A TPO/XPS/XAS study

Christian Ludwig, Rudolf Paul Wilhelm Jozef Struis, Tilman J. Schildhauer

Ni-based catalysts are prone to deactivation (poisoning) of their active surface sites by sulphur and carbon species contained in the gas fed to the reactor. This study focuses on Ni/Al2O3-based catalyst samples which had allegedly been deactivated by sulp ...

2009

Sulfur as pollutant species on the cathode side of a SOFC system

Jan Van Herle, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Josef Andreas Schuler

Sulfur poisoning in a strontium doped lanthanum cobaltite (LSC) cathode current collection layer was revealed in a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) tested in repeat-element and stack configuration. Sources of sulfur contamination, other than trace SOx in air, ...

2009