The main mechanisms of transformation of mercury compounds in coal combustion products in the region of high temperatures have been analyzed. A kinetic model of the process of gas-phase oxidation of metal mercury vapors is proposed. The features of the behavior of the investigated compounds in systems of cleaning combustion products from harmful impurities have been considered.Mercury compounds are among the most toxic and long-lived microimpurities in the atmospheric air. Native sources of mercury emitted into the atmosphere are water surfaces, soils, plants, forest fires, volcanos, etc. and, according to the estimates of different authors, the total emission of mercury is about 3000 tons/year [1]. Among the anthropogenic sources of mercury compounds are industries, heat power engineering, and incineration of rubbish. The anthropogenic emission of mercury in Europe is about 600 tons/year. In the countries of Eastern Europe (including the European part of Russia), the release of mercury compounds into the atmosphere is mainly due to the operation of solid-fuel thermal power plants [2].Unlike the majority of metals forming small impurities in solid fuel, mercury is an extremely volatile element. Therefore, mercury compounds are present in solid-fuel combustion products before their release into the atmosphere practically completely in the gas phase. The further behavior of these toxic components of flue gases is determined by the processes of their photochemical oxidation in cloud drops and precipitation on the earth's surface near the emission source [3].The dominant forms of mercury in solid-fuel combustion products are vapors of metal mercury Hg 0 , as well as compounds of bivalent mercury Hg(II): HgCl 2 (g) and HgO(g, s) [4]. As the results of thermodynamic calculations show, the redistribution of mercury between different compounds varies over wide ranges and depends on the regime parameters of the process (initial fuel composition, temperature, pressure, etc.) [5,6].Because of the poor solubility of metal mercury vapors in water, removal of Hg 0 from combustion products is only possible upon its chemical conversion into readily soluble compounds of Hg(II). In the present paper, the main mechanisms of Hg 0 -Hg(II) conversion have been analyzed, a kinetic model of the process is proposed, and the features of the behavior of mercury compounds in systems of removing harmful impurities from solid-fuel combustion products have been considered.Thermodynamic Analysis of the Process. The content of mercury in power-generating coals varies from 0.01 to 1 mg/kg [7]. In the process of fuel combustion, mercury goes to the gas phase in the form Hg 0 . At an average content of this impurity in the initial fuel of 0.1 mg/kg, the Hg 0 concentration in combustion products is about 15 µg ⁄ nm 3 .The processes of further conversion of Hg 0 are rather complicated and consist of homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions of the gaseous components containing Hg and Cl atoms [8]. Among the methods of mathematical modeling of such proc...