Atmospheric emissions of F, As, Se, Hg, and Sb from coal-fired power and heat generation in China.pdf

Chemosphere 90 (2013) 1925–1932Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Chemosphere journal homepage: www.elsevier .com/locate /chemosphereAtmospheric emissions of F, As, Se, Hg, and Sb from coal-fired power and heat generation in China Jian Chen a,b,1, Guijian Liu a,b,?, Yu Kang a,1, Bin Wu a,1, Ruoyu Sun a,1, Chuncai Zhou a,1, Dun Wu a,1 aCAS Key Laboratory of Crust–Mantle Materials and Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China b State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710075, China h i g h l i g h t s Emissions of F, As, Se, Hg, Sb from power and heat generation in China are large. 162161 t F, 236 t As, 637 t Se, 172 t Hg, and 33 t Sb were emitted in 2009. Atmospheric emissions increased with increasing coal consumptions.a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 26 June 2012 Received in revised form 3 October 2012 Accepted 17 October 2012 Available online 11 November 2012 Keywords: Atmospheric emissions Toxic trace elements Coal-fired power and heat generation China0045-6535/$ - see front matter Crown Copyright  2 /10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.10.032 ? Corresponding author at: CAS Key Laboratory of Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China. Tel 551 3621485. E-mail addresses: chenj@ (J. Che kangyu@ (Y. Kang), lit520@mail.ustc.e (R. Sun), zhoucc@ (C. Zh (D. Wu). 1 Tel.: +86 551 3603714.a b s t r a c t Coal is one of the major energy resources in China, with nearly half of produced Chinese coal used for power and heat generation. The large use of coal for power and heat generation in China may result in sig- nificant atmospheric emissions of toxic volatile trace elements (i.e. F, As, Se, Hg, and Sb). For the purpose of estimating the atmospheric emissions from coal-fired power and heat generation in China, a simple method