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:
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Highlights in Pictures |
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ERM, Peter Belmonte |
Co author MATS Conundrum |
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Kiewit, Mitch Krasnopoler |
CAA Tech Vertical FGD |
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Solvay Chemicals - Bob Sommerlad |
Continuous Monitoring WTE |
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Pall - Marty Ladner, Doug Barth Eli Lilly - Richard Lambert |
Lots of orders for multi metals analyzer |
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ICAC Mercury Committee |
Providing facts on technology to EPA |
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Carbonxt - Bill Naylor, Caitlyn Gross |
Presenting data on mercury sorbent performance |
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ICAC- Betsy Natz, Mike Durham, Rob Nebergall, Jean Bustard , Rich Miller |
Betsy is the new executive Director |
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Steag - Rich Marsan, Dorothee Seidel |
Range of APC services |
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U. S. Lime - Jim Balla |
Major lime supplier in Southwest |
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URS - Patrick Eves, Doug Montalbano |
These two split business development in the East/Midwest |
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Proco - Rob Coffee |
Expansion joints and check valves used in FGD and other pipe |
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ABB - Rodney Durban |
Clean air initiative for range of products |
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Solvay Chemical - Mike Atwell |
Sodium sorbents. AEP, Duke, and KY utilities using trona for SO3 |
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Air Monitor - Dave Earley, Dean Debaun, Nick Ferri |
Boiler combustion optimization |
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Babcock Power - Tony Licata, Joe Langone |
Many decades of APC experience including SCR and FGD (wet and dry |
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ETS, John McKenna |
Inferior PPS is identified |
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Denali - Chaun Trenary, Paul Doucet, Paul Schmidt, Jack Bushmeyer |
FRP chimney liners are high tech and Chinese substitutes are high risk |
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Haldor Topsoe - Klavs Beldring, Wayne Jones, Nate White |
TopKat filters and Denoxes in one step and at very high efficiency |
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CoaLogix - Mike Mattes, Randy Sadler; Martin Engineering- Sue Griffith |
Coalogix will now sell Martin Sonic horns |
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BASF - Paul Schmidt, Robert Zeiss |
Brominated mineral based Mercury sorbent is cost effective |
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Natronx - Greg Strickler, Dave Smith, Mike Brubaker, |
Sodium sorbents for HCl, SO2 and SO3 |
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Ormantine USA - Kristi Baker, Mike Wilmont |
Air particle monitor with rapid response, also RAM for VOCs |
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Ashland Chemical - Jim Graham, Julie Santinelli |
Vinyl ester resins play an increasing role in APC corrosion protection |
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Novinda - Scott Terhune |
Cement compatible mercury sorbent |
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Praxair - Andy Phillips |
Range of protocol gases |
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Lechler - Rob Van Durme |
Two-in-one nozzle |
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Black & Veatch - Jeff Kloster |
CASPR vacatur won’t have much impact on clients |
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NWL - Helmut Herder, Joe Manna |
Poland has 200 power plus , introducing 200 KV product |
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ERM - Peter Belmonte, Robert Fraser, Jon Perry. Erin McCartry |
Rob was presenter at Hot Topics when with AECOM |
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Niska - Balaji Krishnakumar |
Calcium can also poison catalyst |
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Mississippi Lime - Richard Zhang, Curt Biehn |
High reactivity lime very efficient on HCl - slides follow |
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Kiewit - Brad Bueker |
Gypsum quality measurement |
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Lhoist - Xavier Pettiau, Jim Dickerman, Andrea Stroud, Howard Fitzgerald |
Lime can be used with limestone FGD systems to capture SO3 and improve SO2 capture |
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Hadek - Benjamin Beck |
San Juan Power has Penngard linings on all 4 FGD stacks |
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Nol-Tec Mike Manning, Jerry VanDerWerff KC Cottrell-Mike Widico |
Sister companies with particulate control and DSI |
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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 |
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Carmeuse - Bob Roden, Stephane Crevecouer |
Lime FGD of interest in Eastern Europe where Serbia and others are installing scrubbers |
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Fibrex - Ken Johnson |
FGD piping |
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FuelTech - Alexander Dainoff, Terry Brown |
Overfire air and LNB for 6 units in Chile |
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Thermo Scientific - Jason Meyer, Amand Mamidipudi |
SO3 monitor justifies cost with reagent savings and corrosion protection |
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Victaulic - Bill Lowar, Doug Dole |
New coupling for fiberglass pipe |
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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 individual presentations are as follows:
§ From Worst ESP to Best by Dennis Shanahan - Clyde Bergemann - Hot Topic Hour August 23, 2012
§ The MATS Conundrum Case Study by Peter Belmonte, ERM - Hot Topic Hour August 23, 2012
§ CSAPR by Debbie Fox, McIlvaine Company - Hot Topic Hour August 23, 2012