Mercury in Waste Coal

Above chart from “Mer­cury and Util­i­ties: Cur­rent Con­trol Tech­nolo­gies” (7/31/2001 EPA pre­sen­ta­tion, page 6), based on EPA’s 1999 Infor­ma­tion Col­lec­tion Request (ICR) (down­load raw data or view their sum­ma­ry data in Excel. More con­cise sum­ma­ry data com­par­ing BTU, mer­cury and sul­fur con­tent of coals by region avail­able from the U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy’s Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Admin­is­tra­tion, Assump­tions to the Annu­al Ener­gy Out­look 2004, p124.

Data for the tables on the waste coal page (com­piled from the raw ICR data) is below: