Zinc Isotope Variability in Three Coal-Fired Power Plants: A Predictive Model for Determining Isotopic Fractionation during Combustion

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 12560-12567

  Ochoa Gonzalez, R ^a   Weiss, D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASH HANDLING; BYPRODUCTS; COAL; COAL ASH; COAL BYPRODUCTS; COAL FUELED FURNACES; FLY ASH; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; ISOTOPES; PEAT; ZINC;

COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; COMBUSTION BY-PRODUCTS; CONTROLLING PROCESS; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT;

COAL COMBUSTION;

CALCIUM SULFATE; COAL; ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC; FLY ASH; GAS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; COMBUSTION; FLY ASH; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; PEAT; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); ZINC;

ARTICLE; BOTTOM ASH; COAL POWER; COMBUSTION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; EVAPORATION; FLUE GAS; FLY ASH; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; RAYLEIGH DISTILLATION EQUATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL MODEL; GAS; SPAIN;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; COAL; COAL ASH; GASES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POWER PLANTS; SPAIN; ZINC ISOTOPES;

EID: 84945309928     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02402     Document Type: Article

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