Air Pollutant Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants, Report No. 2

Abstract

The Public Health Service and the Bureau of Mines are conducting a joint study to evaluate a number of flue-gas-stream components from coal-burning power plants. Emissions of fly ash, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, polynuclear hydrocarbons, total gaseous hydrocarbons, formaldehyde, certain metals, and carbon dioxide are determined. A previous paper covered air pollutant emissions from vertical-fired and front-wall-fired power plant boilers. This paper includes a comparative evaluation of emissions from a tangential-fired and a turbo-fired power plant boiler.

Assessment of environmental control technologies for Koppers-Totzek, Winkler, and Texaco coal gasification systems

“…(57) Their fate in combustion systems has been studied. (54,58,59,60,61,62) One of the studies indicates that the more volatile trace elements--As, Hg, Pb and Se--tend to concentrate in the solid and gaseous products that would normally be emitted from the stack. 54The less volatile elements were found to be more or less uniformly distributed in the slag, ash deposits, and precipitator catch.…”

Mutagenic effluents from a coal-fired power plant: short-term variations and relation to power load and other load-dependent emissions

“…Emissions of certain carcinogenic substances from coal combustion were first reported in 1964 (1)(2)(3). In these early works polynuclear hydrocarbons and other emissions were analyzed from 19 different combustion units fired with coal, oil, and gas.…”