Abstract
Anhui Province is the most important energy production base for eastern China. Many large pithead coal-fired power plants are being operated in the coal-rich Huainan and Huaibei coalfields in northern Anhui. To assess the environmental risks of local coal-fired power plants, a complete atmospheric emission inventory of F, As, Se, Cd, Sb, Hg, Pb, and U from coal-fired power plants in Anhui was compiled by a simple mass-balance-based method. The results indicated that the atmospheric emissions of F, As, Se, Cd, Sb, Hg, Pb, and U in 2017 from the Anhui coal-fired power plants were 578 t, 2.01 t, 15.3 t, 0.57 t, 0.18 t, 2.80 t, 23.7 t, and 0.099 t, respectively. The emission factor is the major contributor to the uncertainties in this inventory. With increasing energy demand by the more developed eastern China region, the atmospheric emissions of volatile hazardous elements will continue to increase in the near future.
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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC0201605), Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Anhui Province (1908085J14), National Natural Science Foundations of China (Nos. 41972173, 51878004, and 41402139) and National Key Basic Research Program of China (2014CB238901). Special thanks are given to anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions.
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Chen, J., Zhang, B., Zhang, S. et al. A complete atmospheric emission inventory of F, As, Se, Cd, Sb, Hg, Pb, and U from coal-fired power plants in Anhui Province, eastern China. Environ Geochem Health 43, 1817–1837 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-020-00753-6
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