Emissions of mercury and other trace elements from a coal-fired power plant

Proceeding of International Conference on Power Engineering, ICOPE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lu, Ping ^a   Li, Chuantong ^a   Wu, Jiang ^b   Pan, Wei Ping ^c  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRIC POWER   (China)

^c WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal fired power plant; Material mass balance; Mercury emission; Mercury speciation; Trace element emission

Indexed keywords

ASH HANDLING; COAL; COAL ASH; COAL FUELED FURNACES; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS; FLUE GASES; FLUES; FLY ASH; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; GASES; MERCURY (METAL); MINING;

COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS (ESP); EMISSION CONCENTRATION; FLUE GAS DESULPHURIZATION; MASS BALANCE; MERCURY EMISSIONS; MERCURY SPECIATIONS; ONTARIO HYDRO METHODS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 84926395357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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