Mercury isotopes of atmospheric particle bound mercury for source apportionment study in urban Kolkata, India

• Main Authors: DAS, Reshmi, WANG, Xianfeng, KHEZRI, Bahareh, WEBSTER, Richard D., SIKDAR, Pradip Kumar, DATTA, Subhajit
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Particle Bound Mercury; Mass Dependent Fractionation; Mass Independent Fractionation; Environmental Sciences; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6004; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7007/viewcontent/2016elementa_mercury_isotopes.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The particle bound mercury (PBM) in urban-industrial areas is mainly of anthropogenic origin, and is derived from two principal sources: Hg bound to particulate matter directly emitted by industries and power generation plants, and adsorption of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) and gaseous oxidized m...