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Sulfur oxides in flue gases are considered pollutants. Removing them is one thing, and selling the by-product is another.
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George M. MeiselSME is principal metallurgical engineer at Kaiser Engineers, Oakland, Cal. He served as a plant engineer for Continental Mining Corp., as a plant design engineer for Climax Molybdenum Co., as chief engineer—director at Colorado Iron Works Co., and as a project engineer at Kennecott Copper Corp. in Salt Lake City before joining Kaiser Engineers.
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Meisel, G.M. Sulfur recovery. JOM 24, 31–39 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03355773
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