Monitoring of Mercury and Air Toxics Emissions from Coal-fired Power Plants Will be the Hot Topic on Thursday, February 5th at 10 a.m. CST
In light of the legal decision vacating the Clean Air Mercury Rule early last year, it is likely that EPA will now focus on other hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) as well as mercury for any future rulemaking. This means that control of HAPs as well as mercury is a matter of high concern and a top priority for utility planners and executives. The utility planners will undoubtedly spend the time between now and when a regulation is finally in place actively evaluating options for mercury control as well as for reducing emissions of air toxics, SO2, and particulates and formulating strategies to address a possible MACT regulation. Also during the past five years many utilities have installed or begun the process of installing new air pollution controls at many plants. Periodic measurement or continuous monitoring of stack emissions of mercury and HAPs is required to assess how these new controls affect mercury and air toxic emissions as well as to establish baseline emissions from plants without new controls. For this reason, interest in methods and instrumentation for monitoring mercury and air toxics emissions remains high.
The following presenters will provide information and discuss their experience with instrumentation and methods for periodic or continuous measurement of mercury and other HAPs:
John A. Cooper, President of Cooper Environmental Services, LLC, will describe a common platform for continuously measuring toxic metals in stack gas emissions and ambient air. He will also present the results of five years of continuous stack monitoring and compliance acceptance as well as results from recent near-real-time ambient monitoring of toxic metals in the vicinity of a source of metal emissions.
(503) 624-5750 jacooper@cooperenvironmental.com
Phil Downey, Environmental Specialist with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Air Pollution Control, Air Monitoring Section, will present an overview of the Ohio EPA’s air toxics sampling program and how it is utilized to support the goals of the Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC). The presentation will also include a brief highlight of the primary sampling and analytical methods. (614) 644-2270 phil.downey@epa.state.oh.us
Robert Spellicy, President of Industrial Monitor and Control Corp., will discuss the use of FTIR instruments to continuous monitor SO3 and H2SO4 as well as other criteria pollutants.
(512) 341-8189 rspellicy@imacc-instruments.com
Jon Howard of Weston Solutions will describe his experience with measuring mercury and HAPs in the field. (334) 728-2252 j.howard@westonsolutions.com
Jeremy Whorton, P.E., Mercury CEMs Application Engineer at ThermoFisher Scientific, will describe instruments available from ThermoFisher for periodic and continuous monitoring. (508) 553-6905 jeremy.whorton@thermo.com
Paul Chu of EPRI will also be presenting.
To register for the “Hot Topic Hour” on Thursday, February 5th at 10:00 a.m. CST, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/FGDnetoppbroch/Default1.htm .
Bob McIlvaine
847 784-0012