cobalt, chromium, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, and selenium. Four other metals-barium, copper, molybdenum, and vanadium-were added to that list. Collectively, these elements were of interest insofar as their total concentrations in various streams were concerned and also insofar as their concentrations in gas streams were divided between the particulate and gas phases. Individually, arsenic, chromium, and mercurywere to be determined as different species-arsenic in the trivalent and pentavalent states, As(m) and As(V), having somewhat uncertain " relative toxicities; chromium in hexavalent form, Cr(VI), which is acutely carcinogenic; and mercury in an Oxidizedstate or the elemental state, which determine whether the effects of mercury emission are likely to occur locally or only at a remote location. Inorganic gases consisting of SOx, I-IF,HCI, HCN, and ammonia (NH3). The first three of these gases are the common forms in which sulfur, fluorine, and chlorine are emitted from a coal combustor. The latter two gases contain nitrogen in reduced states in distinction to the oxidized states found in NOz, the predominant form of emission of nitrogen other than N2. The emission of the latter two gases was presumed to be the possible result of staged combustion to reduce NOx emissions. Aldehydes (notably formaldehyde) and ketones, which are partially oxygenated hydrocarbons. These compounds are lx_ible emissions resulting from the partial oxidation of more complex structures. Volatile organic compounds, which are generally organic compounds with boiling points below 100°C. Formally speaking, volatile organics would include formaldehyde and some of the other aldehydes and ketones. Practically speaking, however, these compounds exclude formaldehyde and may be defined as those compounds that can be collected under the specific sampling conditions employed in EPA's Volatile Organics Sampling Train (VOST). The two specific volatiles of primaryinterest were the two simple aromatic hydrocarbons-benzene and toluene. iv Semi-volatile organic compounds, which generally have boiling points above 100°C. The compounds of paramount interest in this group are known as polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); they are solids in the pure state at ambient temperature and are not usually thought of in terms of volatility. The PAH with the lowest molecular weight is naphthalene C10H s, which has a melting point of 80°C and a boiling point of 218°C. The PAH with perhaps the longest standing reputation for toxicity, as a carcinogen, is benzo(a)pyrene. All of the above types of compounds were included in the analysis of flue gas streams at the inlet of the hot-side ESP and the outlet of the cold-side ESP. Those elements that are by their nature indestructible in the process of coal combustion were also determined in other materials (coal, feed water, pyrite, bottom ash, and ESP hopper ash). Stream flow rates and element concentrations were used in the calculation of material balances, which were of interest for two reasons: 1) revealing h...