Global mercury emissions from combustion in light of international fuel trading

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1727-1735

  Chen, Yilin ^a   Wang, Rong ^a   Shen, Huizhong ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Chen, Han ^a   Huang, Ye ^a   Zhang, Yanyan ^a   Chen, Yuanchen ^a   Su, Shu ^a   Lin, Nan ^a   Liu, Junfeng ^a   Li, Bengang ^a   Wang, Xilong ^a   Liu, Wenxin ^a   Coveney, Raymond M ^b   Tao, Shu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; BIOFUEL; COAL; FOSSIL FUEL; MERCURY;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BIOFUELS; COAL; COMMERCE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOSSIL FUELS; MERCURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84893606432     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es404110f     Document Type: Article

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