Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Beryllium pollution from slag and ashes from thermal power stations

  • Published:
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Beryllium enters the environment principally from coal combustion. Be contents in the ashes from a Czechoslovak power plant were determined. The ashes used in the experiment were as follows: coarse (> 2.0 mm) and fine (2.0 to 0.2 mm) fraction from dump, and fine (< 0.2 mm) fraction from electrostatic precipitators. It was discovered that the acidic and the alkali aqueous extracts of these ashes contain various concentrations of Be (1 to 17% of total concentration). Wastewater has shown 3.15 and 3.4 μg Be L−1. Thus, secondary long-term Be pollution emerges from the slag and ash dumps.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • EPA-Beryllium, Water Quality Criteria: 1978, NTIS PB-292–422.

  • Bouška, V.: 1981, Geochemistry of Coal, Academia, Prague.

    Google Scholar 

  • Groth, D. H., Kommineni, C., and Mackay, G. R.: 1980, Environ. Res. 21, 56.

    Google Scholar 

  • IARC monographs on the evaluation of the carcinogenic risk of chemicals to human: some metals and metallic compounds: 1980, Vol. 23, Internatinal Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon.

  • Jiřele, V.: 1967, Chem. Prümysl 17, 175.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kubiznňáková, J.: 1983, Výskyt, stanovení a sledování beryllia v některých složch životního prostfedi, Thesis, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Prague.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kuschner, M.: 1981, Environ. Health Persp. 40, 101.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lepp, N. W.: 1981, Effects of Heavy Metal Pollution on Plant, Vol. 1. Applied Science Publ., London, p. 220.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pacyna, J. M.: 1984, Atmospheric Environment 18, 41.

    Google Scholar 

  • Reeves, A. L.: 1979, ‘Beryllium’, in L. Friberg, G. F. Nordberg, V. B. Vauk (eds.), Handbook on the Toxicology of Metals, Elsevier/North Holland Biomedical Press, Amsterdam, pp. 329–344.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sinderman, F. W.: 1984, Ann. Clin. Lab. Sci. 14, 93.

    Google Scholar 

  • Švácha, J., Mejstřík, V., Kubizňáková, J., and Morová, L: 1979, Radioaktivita a životné prostredie 2, 47.

    Google Scholar 

  • Švácha, J., Mejstiřík, V., Kubizňáková, J., and Obrusník, L: 1980, Radioaktivita a životné prostredie 3, 273.

    Google Scholar 

  • SCTM: 1981, in Belman and Nordberg, (eds.), Scienntific Committee on the Toxicology of Metals.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Landscape Ecology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 37005, České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia

    Jana Kubizňáková

Authors
  1. Jana Kubizňáková
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kubizňáková, J. Beryllium pollution from slag and ashes from thermal power stations. Water Air Soil Pollut 34, 363–367 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00282737

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00282737

Keywords

Search

Navigation