Pod Technologies - Mercury Monitoring
Updated: 05/14/2012
Overview
On August 09, 2010 the US EPA finalized mercury emission regulations for portland cement manufacturers. Also inculded in the proposed amendments are performance specifications for mercury continuous emission monitors (CEMS), as well as updated recordkeeping and testing requirements:
- News Release: EPA Sets First National Limits to Reduce Mercury and Other Toxic Emissions from Cement Plants
Fact Sheet: Final Amendments to National Air Toxics Emission Standards and New Source Performance Standards for Portland Cement Manufacturing. August 09, 2010 (pdf, 6pp, 40KB)
On December 21, 2011 the US EPA announced standards to limit mercury, acid gases, and other toxic pollution from power plants:
- News Release: EPA Issues First National Standards for Mercury Pollution from Power Plants/ Historic 'mercury and air toxics standards' meet 20-year old requirement to cut dangerous smokestack emissions
- Fact Sheet: Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for Power Plants. December 21, 2011 (pdf, 6pp, 32KB)
Regulations
- National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry and Standards of Performance for Portland Cement Plants. September 09, 2010 (pdf, 97pp, 1.29MB)
- National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry and Standards of Performance for Portland Cement Plants; Direct Final Rule; amendments. January 18, 2011 (pdf, 6pp, 163KB)
- National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry and Standards of Performance for Portland Cement Plants: Denial in part and grant in part of petitions to reconsider. May 17, 2011 (pdf, 9pp, 210KB)
- Proposed Settlement Agreement between EPA and the industry petitioners in Portland Cement Ass'n v. EPA, No. 10-1358 (D.C. Circuit). May 08, 2012 New
- Rule and Implementation Information for Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry
- Rule and Implementation Information-New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Portland Cement Plants
- Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS)
- National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Coal and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric Utility, Industrial-Commercial-Institutional, and Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units. February 16, 2012 (pdf, 97pp, 1.29MB)
- Fact Sheet: Adjustments from Proposal to Final . February 16, 2012 (pdf, 2pp, 114KB)
- Air Toxics Standards for Utilities
- Performance Specification 12A—Specifications and Test Procedures For Total Vapor Phase Mercury Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems in Stationary Sources. August 09, 2010 (pdf, 14pp, 674KB)
- Performance Specification 12B—Specifications and Test Procedures For Total Vapor Phase Mercury Emissions from Stationary Sources Using a Sorbent Trap Monitoring System. August 09, 2010 (pdf, 18pp, 984KB)
Test Methods
- US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
- US EPA Promulgated Test Methods (TM)
- Method 29—Metals Emissions from Stationary Sources (pdf, 71pp, 532KB)
- Method 30A—Determination of Total Vapor Phase Mercury Emissions from Stationary Sources (Instrumental Analyzer Procedure) (pdf, 48pp, 249KB)
- Method 30B—Determination of Total Vapor Phase Mercury Emissions from Coal-Fired Combustion Sources Using Carbon Sorbent Traps (pdf, 37pp, 255KB)
- US EPA Promulgated Test Methods (TM)
- ASTM International
Evaluations
- US EPA Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program: Advanced Monitoring Systems Center
- Mercury Emission Monitors
- Technology Brief: Mercury Continuous Emission Monitors (CEMs). January 2007 (pdf, 2pp, 128KB)
- US EPA Technology Transfer Network Emission Measurement Center: Continuous Emission Monitoring
- Long-Term Field Evaluation of Mercury (Hg) Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems: Coal-Fired Power Plant Burning Eastern Bituminous Coal and Equipped With Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR), Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP), and Wet Scrubber: Field Activities From November 2004 to September 2005. November 29, 2006 (pdf, 142pp, 908KB)
- Armstrong Project - Evaluation and Comparison of US and EU Reference Methods for Measurement of Mercury, Heavy Metals, PM2.5 and PM10 Emissions from Fossil-Fired Power Plants - Final Report. February 2007 (pdf, 313pp, 7.5MB)
Monitors
- Apex Instruments XC-6000EPC MercSampler
- US EPA ETV Verification Report (pdf, 30pp, 672KB)
- US EPA ETV Verification Statement (pdf, 3pp, 132KB)
- Clean Air Engineering MET-80 Sorbent Trap System
- Cemtrex SM4
- Durag/Verewa HM-1400 TRX
- Brochure (pdf, 1p, 135KB)
- EcoChem Analytics HOVACAL Calibration Gas Generator
- Envimetrics Argus-Hg 1000/2000
- US EPA ETV Verification Report (pdf, 54pp, 1230KB)
- US EPA ETV Verification Statement (pdf, 3pp, 460KB)
- Environmental Supply Co. HG-324K & HGK-PFI
- US EPA ETV Verification Report (pdf, 29pp, 652KB)
- US EPA ETV Verification Statement (pdf, 3pp, 72KB)
- OhioLumex
- US EPA ETV Verification Report (pdf, 68pp, 1500KB)
- US EPA ETV Verification Statement (pdf, 4pp, 192KB)
- Opsis AB Hg 200
- US EPA ETV Verification Report (pdf, 52pp, 1290KB)
- US EPA ETV Verification Statement (pdf, 3pp, 456KB)
- Seefelder-Messtechnik Hg-CEM (pdf, 4pp, 881KB)
- SICK MERCEM300Z
- Fact Sheet (pdf, 4pp, 274KB)
- Tekran Series 3300
- Fact Sheet (pdf, 2pp, 1.28MB)
- US EPA ETV Verification Report (pdf, 40pp, 646KB)
- US EPA ETV Verification Statement (pdf, 4pp, 136KB)
- Teledyne Leeman Labs Hydra-C
- Thermo Electron Mercury Freedom System
- Brochure (pdf, 7pp, 964KB)
- US EPA ETV Verification Report (pdf, 34pp, 700KB)
- US EPA ETV Verification Statement (pdf, 3pp, 132KB)
Other
- US EPA:
Mercury Monitoring and Reporting Requirements under the MATS Rule. Scott Hedges, US EPA Clean Air Markets Division, 2012 EPRI CEM User Group Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, May 08, 2012 (ppt, 1.7 MB) New- Hg Cal Gas Standards and Traceability. Matthew Boze & Robert Voll, US EPA Clean Air Markets Division, 2009 EPRI CEM User Group Conference, St. Louis, MO, May 14, 2009 (ppt, 535 KB)
- Mercury Monitoring by States. Robert Vollaro, US EPA Clean Air Markets Division, 2009 EPRI CEM User Group Conference, St. Louis, MO,
May 14, 2009 (ppt, 527 KB)
- Mercury Monitoring - Field Experience With Mercury Monitors. Dr. Nenad Sarunac, Lehigh University Energy Research Center; Dr. Domenico Cipriano, CESI Ricerca; and Jeffrey Ryan and John Schakenbach, U.S. EPA. Power Magazine, August 15, 2007
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