Environmental assessment of natural radionuclides and heavy metals in waters discharged from a lignite-fired power plant

Fuel

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2046-2052

  Karamanis, D ^a   Ioannides, K ^a   Stamoulis, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coal fired power plant; Discharge waters; Radioactivity; Radium; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIVITY; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; CONCENTRATION OF; CONCENTRATION VALUES; DISCHARGE WATER; DISCHARGE WATERS; DISCHARGED WATER; DISSOLVED METALS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GROSS ALPHA; GROSS BETA; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIGH PH; LIGNITE-FIRED POWER PLANTS; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; METAL LEACHING; NATURAL RADIONUCLIDES; NATURAL WATER BODIES; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; SOIL SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRACE METAL; TRACE METALS; WATER QUALITY CRITERIA; WATER STREAMS;

CHROMIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COAL FUELED FURNACES; COAL INDUSTRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; FIRE TUBE BOILERS; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; HEAVY METALS; LEACHING; LEAD ALLOYS; LIGNITE; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METALS; MINING; MOLYBDENUM; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIUM; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

HEAVY WATER;

EID: 67649827688     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2009.02.032     Document Type: Article

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