Mercury emissions from a coal-fired power plant in Japan

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 259, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 97-103

  Yokoyama, Takahisa ^a   Asakura, Kazuo ^a   Matsuda, Hiromitsu ^b   Ito, Shigeo ^b   Noda, Naoki ^b  

^a Respiratory Center   (Japan)

^b Yokosuka Res Lab Ctrl Res I   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coal fired power plant; Japan; Mass balance; Mercury emissions

Indexed keywords

COAL; MERCURY; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; SULFURIC ACID;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; EMISSION; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; COMBUSTION; DESULFURIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FLUE GAS; JAPAN; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

JAPAN;

EID: 0034597252     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00552-0     Document Type: Article

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