Environmental geochemistry of the feed coals and their combustion by-products from two coal-fired power plants in Xinjiang Province, Northwest China

Fuel

Volumn 95, Issue , 2012, Pages 446-456

  Li, Jing ^a,b   Zhuang, Xinguo ^a   Querol, Xavier ^b   Font, Oriol ^b   Moreno, Natalia ^b   Zhou, Jibin ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c Xinjiang Bureau of Prospecting and Development of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Coal fly ash; Leaching; Partitioning; Power plant; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ASH LEACHATES; CHINESE COAL; COAL FLY ASH; COAL RESERVES; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; COMBUSTION BY-PRODUCTS; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITATIONS; FEED COALS; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; GLASS CONTENT; GLASS MATRICES; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH POTENTIAL; HIGH QUALITY; LEACHING POTENTIAL; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MASS BALANCE; NORTHWEST CHINA; PARTITIONING; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; VOLATILE MATTERS; XINJIANG;

BARIUM; CHLORINE; COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; COAL FUELED FURNACES; FLY ASH; FORESTRY; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLASS; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MERCURY (METAL); POWER PLANTS; RUBIDIUM; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SLAGS; TIN; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

COAL ASH;

EID: 84857053288     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2011.10.025     Document Type: Article

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