Air pollution emissions from Chinese power plants based on the continuous emission monitoring systems network.

ABSTRACT: To meet the growing electricity demand, China's power generation sector has become an increasingly large source of air pollutants. Specific control policymaking needs an inventory reflecting the overall, heterogeneous, time-varying features of power plant emissions. Due to the lack of comprehensive real measurements, existing inventories rely on average emission factors that suffer from many assumptions and high uncertainty. This study is the first to develop an inventory of particulate matter (PM), SO₂ and NO_X emissions from power plants using systematic actual measurements monitored by China's continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS) network over 96-98% of the total thermal power capacity. With nationwide, source-level, real-time CEMS-monitored data, this study

SUBMITTER: Tang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7536431 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature