mercury emissions Articles
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What you need to know about mercury emissions monitoring
Gasmet Technologies (Finland) has published a new White Paper on the monitoring of mercury emissions to air from industrial processes. The Paper provides an overview of current initiatives to reduce mercury emissions and explains how continuous mercury emissions monitoring can help inform process control and the efficient operation of pollution abatement equipment, whilst also demonstrating ...
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New White Papers! What you need to know about mercury emissions monitoring?
Gasmet Technologies (Finland) has published two White Papers on the monitoring of mercury emissions to air from industrial processes. The LCP BREF Guide provides an overview of current initiatives to reduce mercury emissions and explains how continuous mercury emissions monitoring can help inform process control and the efficient operation of pollution abatement equipment, whilst also ...
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Mercury Emissions From The Disposal of Fluorescent Lamps
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making available to the public a study containing information relating to its Proposed Rule addressing the management of mercury-containing lamps under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Subtitle C hazardous waste management system published in the Federal Register on July 27, 1994, 59 FR 39288. The study consists of an electronic model and ...
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Mercury - A Challenge for Emissions Trading
There is growing concern about the damaging effects of mercury pollution. Could emissions trading provide a solution? Donna Danihel and Dave Michaud ...
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Regulating Mercury Emissions
Historically, mercury (Hg) has found its use in many products such as thermometers, batteries, and fluorescent lamps. However, mercury is extremely toxic, and it has in modern days been banned from use in most applications.By example, the Minamata Convention on Mercury from 2013 has been designed to prevent releases of mercury and mercury compounds in order to protect human health and the ...
By OPSIS AB
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3 Questions: Amanda Giang on controlling Mercury Pollution in India and China
Original story at MIT News MIT graduate student studies how a new U.N. treaty could affect mercury emissions from coal power plants in Asia. The Minamata Convention on Mercury, a global treaty adopted by the United Nations in 2013, aims to reduce worldwide mercury pollution by setting limits on specific pollution sources and prohibiting new mercury mining. Certain aspects of the treaty are ...
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The largest source of anthropogenic mercury emissions
The artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is practiced in at least a dozen countries in Latin America. These industries are the largest source of anthropogenic mercury emissions which pollute the air, soil, and water and lead to severe problems with the human health. Therefore, mercury contamination has to be monitored and eliminated. We present you a whitepaper which outlines: What is ...
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How to Monitor Mercury Emissions
In recent years, mercury levels in the environment and in the food chain have risen substantially mainly due to human activities. As a long-range pollutant it can affect areas located thousands of kilometers away from its original source of emission. It’s no wonder then that the regulatory pressure to monitor mercury emissions grows stronger. Before diving into the analysis techniques and ...
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De Beers Victor Mine’s Failure to Report Mercury Risks Causes Serious Environmental Concerns
Mercury contamination from the De Beers diamond mine in northern Ontario may be much higher than the company — or the provincial government — are reporting, according to a new study by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s Wildlands League. An investigation into one of world’s highest quality producing diamond mines has found failures in self-monitoring, raising ...
By SafetyNow
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Mercury: measure and control
Following the new EU BREF document for waste incineration, European cement plants have to implement the requirement to continuously monitor and abate mercury emissions. To enable this they will need to apply technologies that measure mercury in the raw gas and optimise sorbent ...
By ENVEA
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Mercury emissions of the German cement industry
Following the new EU BREF document for waste incineration, European cement plants have to implement the requirement to continuously monitor and abate mercury emissions. To enable this they will need to apply technologies that measure mercury in the raw gas and optimise sorbent ...
By ENVEA
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How to tackle the technical challenges of continuous mercury emissions monitoring
Many pollutants such as CO2, NOx and SO2 have been monitored continuously already for decades. In the last years the awareness for the need to measure mercury has also grown, and continuous mercury monitoring is becoming more and more relevant. Especially industries burning coal, oil or waste, share the responsibility to monitor their mercury emissions. Due to its sticky quality and extremely ...
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Frequently Asked Questions about Continuous Mercury Monitoring
In this blog post, we answer the most frequently asked questions about our fully optimized solutions for continuous monitoring of mercury emissions, CMM and?CMM AutoQAL, our new continuous mercury monitoring system that has an EN 15267 certified, integrated and automatic QAL3 Validation ...
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Legal Lookout: EPA Expands Mercury Reduction Program
Untitled Document Mercury is a naturally occurring metal found in the Earth’s crust. At high doses, mercury is known to cause adverse human health effects. Over the past several years, EPA has focused on mercury exposures because of its potential to cause adverse human health and environmental effects, and because of its persistence and widespread distribution in the ...
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Continuous Mercury Monitoring Benefits Cement Plants
Antti Heikkilä from Gasmet Technologies highlights the challenges faced by mercury monitoring in cement kilns, and explains how a new continuous mercury monitoring system addresses these issues and provides process operators with an opportunity to improve environmental performance and demonstrate compliance with forthcoming legislation. Background The production of cement klinker and lime ...
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Increase in mercury in Pacific yellowfin tuna
Mercury is a toxic trace metal that can accumulate to levels that threaten human and environmental health. Models and empirical data suggest that humans are responsible for a great deal of the mercury actively cycling in the environment at present. Thus, one might predict that the concentration of mercury in fish should have increased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution. Evidence in ...
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New! ENVEA SM-5 Continuous Mercury Monitor
Total Mercury Emissions Monitor in Stack Flue Gases Beneficiary of over 20 years of experience in mercury measurement, the new SM-5 CEMS Hg analyzer is designed to provide extremely accurate and reliable continuous measurements of very low concentrations of Hg in flue gas emissions. The SM-5 features short response times, dynamic ranges and stable measurement under all circumstances. To see ...
By ENVEA
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Gasmet CMM offers reliable and sensitive technology for continuous mercury monitoring
Mercury monitoring requires high standards of quality from a measuring technology. In the future, large industrial plants that are producing mercury emissions must ensure that they are able to keep up with the tightened mercury monitoring requirements. At a legislative level,? EU has only fairly recently set limits for the emissions to air of mercury for large combustion plants, among other ...
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Technical Challenges of Continuous Mercury Emissions Monitoring
Many pollutants such as CO2, NOx and SO2 have been monitored continuously already for decades. In the last years the awareness for the need to measure mercury has also grown, and continuous mercury monitoring is becoming more and more relevant. Especially industries burning coal, oil or waste, share the responsibility to monitor their mercury emissions. All measuring techniques need to be able ...
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Patterns of Mercury Deposition and Concentration in Northeastern North America (1996–2002)
Data from 13 National Atmospheric Deposition Program Mercury Monitor Network (NADP/MDN) monitoring stations (1996–2002) and the Underhill (VT) event-based monitoring site (1993–2002) were evaluated for spatial and temporal trends. More precipitation and mercury deposition occurred in the southern and coastal MDN sites, except for the Underhill site, which received more mercury deposition than ...
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