Hot Topic Hour August 24 covered Highlights of MEGA

The Mega Symposium in Baltimore this week provided extensive updates on technology and regulations. The vacatur of CSAPR in the middle of the conference gave rise to lots of additional conjecture.  In the Hot Topic Hour earlier today, Debbie Fox of McIlvaine weighed in on the impacts which we have summarized elsewhere in this Alert.

In the Hot Topic Hour we displayed the following pictures and discussed the products or poster displays as follows:

Highlights  in Pictures

ERM,  Peter Belmonte

Co author MATS Conundrum

Kiewit, Mitch Krasnopoler

CAA Tech Vertical FGD

 Bob Sommerlad

Continuous Monitoring WTE

Pall - Marty Ladner, Doug Barth

Eli Lilly - Richard Lambert

Lots of orders for multi metals analyzer

ICAC Mercury Committee

Providing facts on technology to EPA

Carbonxt - Bill Naylor, Caitlyn Gross

Presenting data on  mercury sorbent performance

ICAC- Betsy Natz, Mike Durham, Rob Nebergall, Jean Bustard , Rich Miller

Betsy is the new executive Director

Steag - Rich Marsan, Dorothee Seidel

Range of APC services

U. S. Lime - Jim Balla

Major lime supplier in Southwest

URS - Patrick Eves,

Doug Montalbano

These two split business development in the East/Midwest

Proco - Rob Coffee

Expansion joints and check valves used in FGD and other pipe

ABB - Rodney Durban

Clean air initiative for range of products

Solvay Chemical - Mike Atwell

Sodium sorbents. AEP, Duke, and KY utilities using trona for SO3

Air Monitor - Dave Earley, Dean Debaun, Nick Ferri

Boiler combustion optimization

Babcock Power - Tony Licata,

Joe Langone

Many decades of APC experience including SCR and FGD (wet and dry

ETS,  John McKenna

Inferior PPS is identified

Denali - Chaun Trenary, Paul Doucet, Paul Schmidt, Jack Bushmeyer

FRP chimney liners are high tech and Chinese substitutes are high risk

Haldor Topsoe - Klavs Beldring, Wayne Jones,  Nate White

TopKat filters and Denoxes in one step and at very high efficiency

CoaLogix - Mike Mattes, Randy Sadler; Martin Engineering- Sue Griffith

Coalogix will now sell Martin Sonic horns

BASF - Paul Schmidt, Robert Zeiss

Brominated mineral based Mercury sorbent is cost effective

Natronx - Greg Strickler, Dave Smith, Mike Brubaker,

Sodium sorbents for HCl, SO2

and SO3

Ormantine USA - Kristi Baker, Mike Wilmont

Air particle monitor with rapid response, also RAM for VOCs

Ashland Chemical - Jim Graham, Julie Santinelli

Vinyl ester resins play an increasing role in APC corrosion protection

Novinda - Scott Terhune

Cement compatible mercury sorbent

Praxair - Andy Phillips

Range of protocol gases

Lechler - Rob Van Durme

Two-in-one nozzle

Black & Veatch - Jeff Kloster

CASPR vacatur won’t have much impact on clients

NWL - Helmut Herder, Joe Manna

Poland has 200 power plus , introducing 200 KV product

ERM - Peter Belmonte, Robert Fraser,

Jon Perry. Erin McCartry

Rob was presenter at Hot Topics when with AECOM

Niska - Balaji Krishnakumar

Calcium can also poison catalyst

Mississippi Lime - Richard Zhang,

Curt Biehn

High reactivity lime very efficient on HCl - slides follow

Kiewit - Brad Bueker

Gypsum quality measurement

Lhoist - Xavier Pettiau, Jim Dickerman, Andrea Stroud, Howard Fitzgerald

Lime can be used with limestone FGD systems to capture SO3 and improve SO2 capture

Hadek - Benjamin Beck

San Juan Power has Penngard linings on all 4 FGD stacks

Nol-Tec Mike Manning, Jerry VanDerWerff  KC Cottrell-Mike Widico

Sister companies with particulate control and DSI

Duchting Pump - Mike Agosti,

Dan Wilson

Ceramic pumps on recycle at Mill Creek 1, 2, 4 Nipsco Schaefer 14 &15, Ameren Newton, Brown, Petersburg and Alcoa

Carmeuse - Bob Roden, Stephane Crevecouer

Lime FGD of interest in Eastern Europe where Serbia and others are installing scrubbers

Fibrex - Ken Johnson

FGD piping

FuelTech - Alexander Dainoff,

Terry Brown

Overfire air and LNB for 6 units in Chile

Thermo Scientific - Jason Meyer,

Amand Mamidipudi

SO3 monitor justifies  cost with reagent savings  and corrosion protection

Victaulic - Bill Lowar, Doug Dole

New coupling for fiberglass pipe

ADA - Sharon Sjostrom

Whack a MACT

Sharon Sjostrom sent us the following power point showing the complexities of dealing with multiple pollutants. Rich Miller was in the discussion and explained that some lime to remove the SO3 is fine but too much lime or sodium creates NO2 and this can compete with mercury for a place on the activated carbon.

 

 

Carbonxt is achieving good results with their non-halogenated activated carbon in tests at the mercury test center. Balaji Krishnakumar pointed out when we displayed his posters that arsenic poisoning of catalyst can be reduced by the addition of calcium but that an excess of calcium becomes poisonous. The calcium in the interstices reacts with SO2. Calcium sulfate then blinds the catalyst.

Peter Belmonte of ERM played the role of an analyst appearing before a utility board of directors and laying out all the possible options for dealing with MATS. One variable is the stringency of regulations. Another is the price of natural gas. The least cost option depends on these variables.  In one example a worst case scenario for regulations on coal was assumed. The resultant price of electricity was 6.4 cents/kWh.  An alternative construction of a gas turbine combined cycle plant would also result in an average price of 6.4 cents/kWh if the gas price averages $7 during the coming years.

Dennis Shanahan of Clyde Bergemann described the retrofit of one of the precipitators at Santee Cooper Wynah. Not only was the particulate emission reduced but the organics in the gypsum were reduced to a point that the gypsum would be salable.

The entire August 24 recording can be heard at: Report from 2012 Mega Symposium    

79 minutes     Password: hth851

The individual presentations are as follows: