Variations of emission characterization of PAHs emitted from different utility boilers of coal-fired power plants and risk assessment related to atmospheric PAHs

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 538, Issue , 2015, Pages 180-190

  Wang, Ruwei ^a,b   Liu, Guijian ^a,b   Zhang, Jiamei ^a  

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

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

PAHs; Phase partitioning; PM10< inf> and gas phase; Risk assessment; Source assessment

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOILERS; COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; COAL FIRED BOILERS; COAL FUELED FURNACES; DISEASES; FLUE GASES; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; GAS FIRED BOILERS; GASES; HEALTH RISKS; IONIZATION OF GASES; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PULVERIZED FUEL FIRED BOILERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

EMISSION CHARACTERIZATION; GAS-PARTICLE PARTITIONING; GASPHASE; INHALATION AND DERMAL CONTACT; PAHS; PHASE PARTITIONING; SOURCE ASSESSMENT; WET FLUE GAS DESULPHURIZATION;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; AIR POLLUTANT; COAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ABSORPTION; ADSORPTION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; EMISSION; PAH; PARTICULATE MATTER; PARTITIONING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ABSORPTION; ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BOILER; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CHEMICAL AFFINITY; CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COAL FIRED POWER PLANT; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DESULFURIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLUE GAS; GAS; GAS PARTICLE PARTITIONING; LUNG CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHASE PARTITIONING; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN CANCER; VAPOR PRESSURE; WET FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION; WORKER; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; COAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; POWER PLANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84939612471     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.043     Document Type: Article

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