Toxic air emissions from biomass combustion

Energy Sources

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 419-427

  Demirbaş, Ayhan ^a  

^a NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Cadmium; Chromium; Combustion; Copper; Lead; Mercury; Toxic emissions

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COMBUSTION; COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY (METAL); OXIDES; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WOOD; WOOD FUELS;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TOXIC AIR EMISSIONS; WOOD ASH;

BIOMASS;

ARSENIC; BIOMASS; CADMIUM; CHAR; CHROMIUM; COMBUSTION; COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY; OXIDES; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; WOOD;

EID: 0242695697     PISSN: 00908312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00908310303452     Document Type: Article

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