Mercury emission and behavior in primary ferrous metal production

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 3685-3691

  Fukuda, Naomichi ^a   Takaoka, Masaki ^a   Doumoto, Shingo ^a   Oshita, Kazuyuki ^a   Morisawa, Shinsuke ^a   Mizuno, Tadao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emission; Iron and steel industry; Mass balance; Mercury; Sintering furnace process

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED COKES; CRUDE STEEL PRODUCTION; EMISSION FACTORS; FERROUS METALS; FURNACE PROCESS; IRON AND STEEL; LIMITED INFORMATION; MASS BALANCE; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY EMISSIONS; PRODUCTION PROCESS; SINTERING FURNACE PROCESS; SINTERING FURNACES; SINTERING PROCESS; TOTAL EMISSIONS; TOTAL MERCURIES; TRACE AMOUNTS;

BLAST FURNACES; BYPRODUCTS; COAL; COKE; DESULFURIZATION; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS; FURNACES; GAS BURNERS; GAS EMISSIONS; IRON; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; IRON AND STEEL PLANTS; IRON ORES; METAL REFINERIES; METALLURGY; METALS; OVENS; SINTERING; STEELMAKING; STEELMAKING FURNACES; STOVES; TOWERS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

MERCURY (METAL);

COAL; IRON; LIMESTONE; MERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSION INVENTORY; EXHAUST EMISSION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; IRON; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; MASS BALANCE; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DESULFURIZATION; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION; EXHAUST GAS; FURNACE; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; JAPAN; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

JAPAN;

EID: 79958063964     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.04.038     Document Type: Article

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