Partitioning of mercury, arsenic, selenium, boron, and chloride in a full-scale coal combustion process equipped with selective catalytic reduction, electrostatic precipitation, and flue gas desulfurization systems

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4805-4815

  Cheng, Chin Min ^a   Hack, Pauline ^a   Chu, Paul ^b   Chang, Yung Nan ^c   Lin, Ting Yu ^c   Ko, Chih Sheng ^c   Chiang, Po Han ^c   He, Cheng Chun ^c   Lai, Yuan Min ^c   Pan, Wei Ping ^a  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; BOTTOM ASH; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; FIELD STUDIES; FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION SYSTEMS; GASPHASE; MATERIAL BALANCE; PLANT OPERATIONS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; STACK EMISSIONS; SULFUR TRIOXIDE; TRONA INJECTION; WASTEWATER STREAMS; WET FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; ASH HANDLING; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; CARBONATE MINERALS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAL; COAL ASH; COAL INDUSTRY; DESULFURIZATION; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS; ELECTROSTATICS; FLUE GASES; FLUES; FLY ASH; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; GAS EMISSIONS; GYPSUM; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MERCURY (METAL); METAL RECOVERY; MINING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REMOVAL; SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION; SELENIUM; SODIUM; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WASTEWATER;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 70350443440     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef900293u     Document Type: Article

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