mercury reduction News
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Big Mercury Reduction in Illinois and Other States Achievable With Cost Certainty
Illinois has announced an ambitious mercury reduction plan which will meet a great deal of resistance because of the cost uncertainty. The McIlvaine Company believes there is a way that the reduction can be accomplished with cost certainty and, therefore, widespread support. Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois on January 5th called for new state rules to require a 90 percent ...
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Multibillion dollar market for mercury reduction
There is a multibillion dollar market for the reduction of emissions of mercury to the air on a worldwide basis. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company in Mercury Air Reduction Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) Significant conclusions are: The U.S. is leading the way, but other countries are close behind The market is defined by developing technology Coal-fired power is the ...
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Power Plants Must Have A Mercury Reduction Strategy Now
Despite the regulatory uncertainties it is essential that power plant operators put in place both short-term and long-term plans to deal with mercury emissions. This is the advice provided by the McIlvaine Company in Power Plant Air Quality Decisions. There are three main reasons why it is so important to have a plan in place: - Requirements for reduction are likely sooner ...
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Researchers reveal strategies for mercury reduction in time for negotiations
MIT, Harvard professors map future trends, reveal ways to reduce mercury levels on eve of final international meeting for mercury control. Written by Vicki Ekstrom.You can read the original story in MIT NewsInternational negotiators will come together next week in Geneva, Switzerland for the fifth and final meeting to address global controls on mercury. Ahead of the negotiations, researchers from ...
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Mercury Reduction Requirements Generate Billion Dollar Market Opportunity
The new regulations to reduce mercury emissions are creating a market for products and services of hundreds of millions of dollars per year and a five year market in excess of $1 billion. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company in its Air Pollution Management online service. These totals are extracted from the more specific McIlvaine reports on air pollution monitoring and sampling, flue ...
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Large mercury control market just around the corner
The U.S., which was behind Europe in reducing SO2 from power plants, took the lead in mercury reduction with its Clean Air Mercury Rule. This rule would have guaranteed a large near-term market for mercury control technologies and chemicals. Since this rule promulgation, there have been two developments which promise to make the market even bigger. But, ironically, they have also caused ...
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The Market for Mercury Removal will be Growing Robustly in the Next Decade
Recent estimates of annual global mercury emissions from both natural and anthropogenic sources are in the range of 5,000 to 8,000 metric tons per year. These estimates include mercury that is re-emitted. The U.S. EPA analyzed the harm from mercury and came to the conclusion that reduction expenditures as high as $30,000 per pound would be warranted. On this basis the potential market for ...
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EPA Cuts Mercury and Hydrocarbon Emissions for New Portland Cement Production
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced new emission limits for cement kilns that will help cut annual emissions of mercury and hydrocarbons. These limits will help protect public health from mercury and total hydrocarbon emissions from portland cement kilns, through amendments to an air toxics standard issued on Dec. 8, 2006. The amendments set mercury and hydrocarbon emission ...
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Mercury Removal Markets And Technology Progressing In Zig Zag Fashion
Tremendous progress has been made in promulgating regulations and developing technology to remove mercury from coal-fired boiler exhausts, but all the questions are far from answered. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company in Power Plant Air Quality Decisions and the component Mercury Decision Tree. Both suppliers and purchasers are dealing with a number of remaining uncertainties not ...
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Solutions for monitoring of mercury emissions presented at CEM 2016
With the global targets set for reduction of mercury emissions in the environment, more attention is drawn to the mercury monitoring technologies and methods. The changes in legislation regulating mercury emissions and new European norms will come into force in the next 1-5 years. One of them will be the sorbent traps method - a very simple and inexpensive monitoring method. Lumex Analytics ...
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Milestone project demonstrates innovative mercury emissions reduction technology
An innovative technology that could potentially help some coal-based power generation facilities comply with anticipated new mercury emissions standards was successfully demonstrated in a recently concluded milestone project at a Michigan power plant. Under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), WE Energies demonstrated ...
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EPA admits error in proposed mercury MACT rule
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has acknowledged in a letter to non-profit power trade organization Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG) that it made a conversion error in the way mercury emissions data was calculated to set limits for the agency’s mercury maximum achievable control technology (MACT) floor in the proposed Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule. EPA ...
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TSCA Mercury Inventory: Dec. 26 Deadline for Comments on Proposed Reporting Requirements Approaching
As previously reported in our TSCAblog® item on October 26, 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed triennial electronic reporting requirements pertinent to the supply, use, and trade of mercury in the United States. 82 Fed. Reg. 49564. The 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) require EPA to establish periodic mercury reporting requirements for any ...
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US clean air mercury law will `significantly` impact on power plants
When the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) was vacated by a Federal Court last month, it set in motion a number of activities which will significantly impact the power plants and the suppliers. Decisions already made must be reviewed and flexibility initiated to cope with the uncertainties. Since many expensive projects are underway, and since it may be months or years before a clear federal ...
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Global reductions in mercury emissions should lead to billions in economic benefits for U.S.
Original story at MIT News Mercury pollution is a global problem with local consequences: Emissions from coal-fired power plants and other sources travel around the world through the atmosphere, eventually settling in oceans and waterways, where the pollutant gradually accumulates in fish. Consumption of mercury-contaminated seafood leads to increased risk for cardiovascular disease and ...
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Sixteen States Sue U.S. EPA Over Mercury Cap-and Trade Rule
Untitled Document WASHINGTON, DC , June 19, 2006 (ENS) - Sixteen states filed a new lawsuit today in federal court challenging the final rules published June 9, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which establish a cap-and-trade system for regulating harmful mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants. The EPA announced on May 31 that it would move forward with ...
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Krakow welcomes CEM 2020 international emissions monitoring event
From 13th to 15th May, Krakow will be the focus of the world’s leading organisations in industrial emissions monitoring. The CEM 2020 emissions monitoring event will address both European and global emissions monitoring issues, providing the latest help and advice to process operators on the best ways to conduct monitoring; ensuring regulatory compliance and optimising process control. In ...
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New air toxic rules will require huge expansion of activated carbon, fabric filters and bag production
The U.S. EPA has just proposed rules to limit power plant air toxics in the U.S. These rules are expected to reduce 91 percent of the mercury from being released as well as greatly reduce emissions of hydrogen chloride and toxic metals such as arsenic and chromium. McIlvaine (www.mcilvainecompany.com) is providing continuing analysis of the impact of this regulation in Mercury Air Reduction ...
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EPA proposes to slash mercury emissions from cements plants
EPA is proposing to signficantly reduce mercury emissions from Portland cement kilns, the fourth-largest source of mercury air emissions in the US The proposal would set the nation's first limits on mercury emissions from existing Portland cement kilns and would strengthen the limits for new kilns. The proposed standards also would set emission limits for total hydracarbons, particulate matter, ...
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EPA Proposes new reporting requirements for Mercury
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently issued a proposed rule regarding mercury (both as an element and as part of a compound) where it is manufactured, imported, or intentionally used in either a product or in the manufacturing process. The rule – which was published in the Federal Register on October 26, 2017 – has a number of general and specific requirements for ...
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