Distribution and Fate of Mercury in Pulverized Bituminous Coal-Fired Power Plants in Coal Energy-Dominant Huainan City, China

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 724-733

  Chen, Bingyu ^a,b   Liu, Guijian ^a,b   Sun, Ruoyu ^a  

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

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SULFATE; COAL; MERCURY; AIR POLLUTANT; FLY ASH;

BITUMINOUS COAL; BOTTOM ASH; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; COMBUSTION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FLY ASH; GYPSUM; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PARTITIONING; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BOTTOM ASH; CHINA; COAL POWER; COMBUSTION; DESULFURIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FLUE GAS; FLY ASH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANHUI; CHINA; HUAINAN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; COAL; COAL ASH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84958773882     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: 14320703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-016-0267-7     Document Type: Article

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