Development of empirical formulae to determine emission rate from various opencast coal mining operations

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 140, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 21-55

  Chaulya, S K ^a   Chakraborty, M K ^a   Ahmad, M ^a   Singh, R S ^a   Bondyopadhay, C ^a   Mondal, G C ^a   Pal, D ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MINING AND FUEL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Dispersion modelling; Emission rate; Opencast coal mine

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; DRILLING; NITROGEN OXIDES; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EMISSION RATES;

COAL MINES;

NITROGEN OXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL MINE; EMISSION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; OPENCAST MINING;

ACCURACY; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COAL MINING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRILL; DUST; GEOGRAPHY; METEOROLOGY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036790251     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020149407572     Document Type: Article

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