Approaches for controlling air pollutants and their environmental impacts generated from coal-based electricity generation in China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 12384-12395

  Xu, Changqing ^a,b   Hong, Jinglan ^a,b   Ren, Yixin ^c   Wang, Qingsong ^b   Yuan, Xueliang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollutants; Coal washing; Coal based electricity generation; Environmental impact assessment; Flue gas desulfurization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING;

CHINA;

AIR POLLUTANT; COAL; DUST;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHINA; DUST; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ELECTRICITY; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; COAL; DUST; ELECTRICITY; HUMANS; POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84937973871     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-4539-y     Document Type: Article

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