Impact of mercury emissions from incineration of automobile shredder residue in Japan

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 584-593

  Takahashi, Fumitake ^a   Yamagata, Mitsuo ^b   Yasuda, Kenji ^b   Kida, Akiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; WASTE INCINERATION;

AIR POLLUTANT CONTROL DEVICES (APCDS); AUTOMOBILE SHREDDER RESIDUES (ASRS); MERCURY EMISSIONS;

MERCURY (METAL);

AUTOMOBILE; EMISSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAS; INCINERATION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 40149087829     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.12.016     Document Type: Article

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