Statistical estimate of mercury removal efficiencies for air pollution control devices of municipal solid waste incinerators

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5472-5477

  Takahashi, Fumitake ^a   Kida, Akiko ^b   Shimaoka, Takayuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air pollution control device; Mercury emission; Municipal solid waste incineration; Removal efficiency; Statistical estimate

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DEVICES; MERCURY EMISSIONS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATION; REMOVAL EFFICIENCY; STATISTICAL ESTIMATE;

ACTIVATED CARBON; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT; AIR QUALITY; COAL; CONTROL; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS; FLY ASH; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MERCURY (METAL); POLLUTION; POLLUTION INDUCED CORROSION; REFUSE INCINERATORS; REMOVAL; SCRUBBERS; SOLID WASTES; SORPTION; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

WASTE INCINERATION;

ACTIVATED CARBON; MERCURY; SORBENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLY ASH; INCINERATION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; ASH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION; FILTER; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; INCINERATION; KERNEL METHOD; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SCRUBBER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INCINERATION; MERCURY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77956875159     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.067     Document Type: Article

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