Environmental impacts of coal combustion: A risk approach to assessment of emissions

Fuel

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 810-816

  Nelson, Peter F ^a,b   Shah, Pushan ^a,b   Strezov, Vlad ^a,b   Halliburton, Brendan ^a,c   Carras, John N ^a,c  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coal combustion; Speciation; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM ASH; COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRES; CURRENT POWER; EMISSION FLUXES; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; FABRIC FILTERS; FEED COALS; FINER PARTICLES; FULL SCALE; OPERATING PLANTS; PARTICLE CAPTURE; SPECIATION; SUBMICRON; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; ARSENIC; ASH HANDLING; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CHROMIUM; COAL; COAL ASH; COAL INDUSTRY; COAL RESEARCH; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLY ASH; SELENIUM; SMOKE; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUBMERSIBLE PUMPS; TOXIC MATERIALS; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 75149182439     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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