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Acid Dispersion Abatement: The Use Of Flur Gas Desulphurisation In The UK

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

10

Pages

8

Published

1995

Size

835 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/AIR950572

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

J.W.S. Longhurst, B.A. Heath & D.C. Gibbs

Abstract

This paper will review and evaluate the development of the UK flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) programme. This programme on establishment in 1986 represented a planned and coherent approach to acid deposition abatement which would progressively reduce emissions whilst maintaining the UK's coal fired power generation capacity. It was anticipated that at least 12000 MW of electricity generating plan

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