Updated emission inventories for speciated atmospheric mercury from anthropogenic sources in China

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3185-3194

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Wang, Shuxiao ^a,b   Wang, Long ^a   Wu, Ye ^a,b   Duan, Lei ^a,b   Wu, Qingru ^a   Wang, Fengyang ^a   Yang, Mei ^a   Yang, Hai ^a   Hao, Jiming ^a,b   Liu, Xiang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION KEY LABORATORY OF SOURCES AND CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION COMPLEX   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENT INDUSTRY; COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; COAL INDUSTRY; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; MERCURY (METAL); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; CEMENT PRODUCTION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; EMISSION INVENTORIES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; MASS BALANCE ESTIMATES; ON-SITE MEASUREMENT;

INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS;

COAL; MERCURY; AIR POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; MASS BALANCE; MERCURY (PLANET); PROBABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; COMBUSTION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; MEASUREMENT; MERCURY EMISSION; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHINA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHINA; COAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRY; MERCURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84924029122     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es504840m     Document Type: Article

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