Mercury stable isotope signatures of world coal deposits and historical coal combustion emissions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 7660-7668

  Sun, Ruoyu ^a,b   Sonke, Jeroen E ^a   Heimbürger, Lars Eric ^a   Belkin, Harvey E ^c   Liu, Guijian ^b   Shome, Debasish ^d   Cukrowska, Ewa ^e   Liousse, Catherine ^f   Pokrovsky, Oleg S ^a,g   Streets, David G ^h  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

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

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^g TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^h ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMBUSTION EMISSIONS; HG STABLE ISOTOPES; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE SIGNATURES; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION; STABLE ISOTOPES;

COAL DEPOSITS;

COAL; MERCURY; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL; COMBUSTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MERCURY (ELEMENT); STABLE ISOTOPE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHINA; COAL POWER; COMBUSTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; EUROPE; FRACTIONATION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; INDIA; INDONESIA; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MONGOLIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES; USSR;

CHINA; EUROPE; INDIA; INDONESIA; MONGOLIA; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES; USSR;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CHINA; COAL; FLORIDA; INTERNATIONALITY; MERCURY; MERCURY ISOTOPES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POWER PLANTS; RIVERS;

EID: 84903716401     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501208a     Document Type: Article

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