Mercury stable isotope fractionation in six utility boilers of two large coal-fired power plants

Chemical Geology

Volumn 336, Issue , 2013, Pages 103-111

  Sun, Ruoyu ^a   Heimbürger, Lars Eric ^a   Sonke, Jeroen E ^a   Liu, Guijian ^b   Amouroux, David ^c   Berail, Sylvain ^c  

^a Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Coal; Coal combustion products; Isotopes; Mercury; Power plant

Indexed keywords

ANHUI PROVINCE; BOTTOM ASH; BYPRODUCT GYPSUM; COAL BASINS; COAL COMBUSTION PRODUCTS; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; COAL-FIRED UTILITIES; FAR-FIELD; FEED COALS; FLUE GAS DESULPHURIZATION; GLOBAL SCALE; ISOTOPE MASS; ISOTOPE SIGNATURES; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; NEAR-FIELD; OPERATING CONDITION; STABLE ISOTOPES; STACK EMISSIONS; TRANSPORT AND TRANSFORMATION; UTILITY BOILER;

ASH HANDLING; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; DESULFURIZATION; FLUE GASES; FLY ASH; GYPSUM; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL); OXIDATION; POWER PLANTS; PULVERIZED FUEL FIRED BOILERS;

FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; COMBUSTION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MASS BALANCE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANHUI; CHINA; HUAINAN;

EID: 84871928972     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.10.055     Document Type: Article

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