Strontium isotope study of coal utilization by-products interacting with environmental waters

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 144-154

  Spivak Birndorf, Lev J ^a,c   Stewart, Brian W ^a   Capo, Rosemary C ^a   Chapman, Elizabeth C ^a   Schroeder, Karl T ^b   Brubaker, Tonya M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE-EARTH ELEMENTS; BOTTOM ASH; BULK VALUE; CLASS C FLY ASHES; CLASS-F; COAL TYPES; COAL UTILIZATION BY-PRODUCTS; COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; ENVIRONMENTAL TRACERS; ENVIRONMENTAL WATER; FEED COALS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEACHATES; LEACHING EXPERIMENTS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MINERAL MATTERS; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; SR ISOTOPE RATIO; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES;

ARSENIC; ASH HANDLING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMIUM; COAL COMBUSTION; DESULFURIZATION; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; MANGANESE; SODIUM; TITANIUM;

STRONTIUM;

ALKALINE EARTH METAL; ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; COAL; COPPER; LEAD; MANGANESE; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM; WATER; ZINC; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; ASH; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COAL UTILIZATION BY PRODUCT; COMBUSTION; DESULFURIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEACHING; WASTE DISPOSAL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLY ASH; METHODOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANT;

COAL; COAL ASH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84857097074     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2011.0222     Document Type: Article

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