Fly ash-airborne particles from Ptolemais-Kozani area, northern Greece, as determined by ESEM-EDX

International Journal of Coal Geology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-73

  Iordanidis, A ^a   Buckman, J ^b   Triantafyllou, A G ^a   Asvesta, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Airborne particles; EDX; ESEM; Fly ash; Greece

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PARTICLES; CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STACK ASH; TOXIC ELEMENTS;

AIR FILTERS; AIR POLLUTION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; GREECE; MINERALOGY; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TOXIC MATERIALS;

FLY ASH;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; FILTER; FLY ASH; LIGNITE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; KOZANI; PTOLEMAIS BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN MACEDONIA;

EID: 36249028327     PISSN: 01665162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2007.02.007     Document Type: Article

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