The Initial Results of the "Baza Hg" Project Concerning Mercury in Commercial Products of Polish Hard Coal Mines

The consortium of 4 institutions obtained the grant for project entitled: "The elaboration of a data base on mercury content in domestic coal, technological guidelines of the further mercury reduction, including the defining of benchmarks for domestic indices of mercury emission" - acronym "Baza Hg", within the scope of the 2nd call of Applied Research Programme of the Polish National Centre for Research and Development. In the article the genesis of the project is described as well as its objectives and the research tasks which will be realised to achieve the objectives. The results, originating from the first year of the project realization, and their descrip-tion are presented. The discussed results focus on the mercury content in chosen groups of commercial products: sized coal of steam coals. Thus the discussion involves the impact of the degree of coal cleaning.