R C E I - Industrial Emissions and Coal Combustion Workgroup

Participants

Michael Aucott
M. Aslam K. Khalil
Gary Kleiman
Thomas E. Graedel
Archie McCulloch (group leader)

Objectives

To establish a gridded inventory for the emissions of reactive chlorine from industrial sources, coal combustion, waste incineration, and other anthropogenic sources.
Industry in the context of RCEI has a general definition; it encompasses combustion processes, from power plants to municipal waste incineration, and also processes where volatile chlorinated hydrocarbons are made (both deliberately and as by-products), or where they are used. The compounds that are important for this activity and are thought to have important fluxes from industry are:

hydrogen chloride (and chloride associated with particulate emissions), methyl chloride (CH₃Cl),

dichloromethane (CH₂Cl₂ or methylene chloride),

trichloromethane (CHCl₃ or chloroform),

trichloroethene (CCl₂=CHCl or trichloroethylene) and

tetrachloroethene (CCl₂=CCl₂ or perchloroethylene).

Status

The paper has been published and is available here along with the data from this publication.

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20-July-1999