Unit-level assessment of mitigation pathways for mercury emissions from the global coal power fleet
Guo Yaqin, Yan Liu, Dan Tong, Xinying Qin, Qingru Wu, Steven J. Davis, Xizhe Yan, Dongsheng Zheng, Ruochong Xu, Fei Liu, Ji Gaojian, Guannan Geng, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang · 2026
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Guo Yaqin leads a 2026 team that assesses mercury emissions unit by unit across the world's coal power fleet. Mercury builds up through food chains and harms health, and coal plants rank among its top human sources. Standard pollution gear already traps much mercury as a side benefit, yet plants differ hugely in size, efficiency, and controls.
A minority of units, dubbed super emitters, release outsized shares and clustered in emerging economies by 2020. Retiring those units first and upgrading controls elsewhere offers large, cheap near-term cuts. Deeper cuts later need mercury-specific gear such as activated carbon injection. Country-tailored, staged plans follow from the unit-level map.
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| CREATOR | Guo Yaqin, Yan Liu, Dan Tong, Xinying Qin, Qingru Wu, Steven J. Davis, Xizhe Yan, Dongsheng Zheng, Ruochong Xu, Fei Liu, Ji Gaojian, Guannan Geng, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 75247 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |