mercury monitoring Articles
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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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What is CVAF and why to choose it for mercury monitoring
CVAF is an extremely sensitive technology for mercury measurement with zero SO2 interference. But what does CVFAF mean and what makes it a superior and unparalleled technology for mercury monitoring systems? This article answers these and many other questions about CVAF, our mercury monitoring technology. Read on to learn ...
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Mapping Quality Assurance Requirements for Continuous Mercury Monitoring Systems
The Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) requires coal-fired electric power plants to install and operate mercury continuous monitoring systems by December 31, 2008 such that they will have 12 months of “submittable” data by 1 January 2010. For all practical purposes, “submittable data” are “quality-assured data” that meet the extensive quality control requirements cited in the various regulations that ...
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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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CVAF - An Extremely Sensitive Technology for Mercury Measurement with Zero S02 Interference
What does CVAF mean? What makes it a superior and unparalleled technology for mercury monitoring systems? This article answers these and many other questions about CVAF, our mercury monitoring technology. Read on to learn more. 1. What does the abbreviation CVAF mean? CVAF stands for Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence. It is an extremely sensitive and selective measurement principle for the ...
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Want to avoid holiday stress? Take care of your mercury monitoring now for a happy Christmas
Christmas can be a stressful time. You have to buy gifts, decorate, bake sweets, attend parties, and avoid talking to that one relative that always drives you crazy. But if you think you’re stressed now, wait until 2023. That’s when the Best Available Techniques Reference documents on waste incineration (WI BREF) will require stricter mercury monitoring on larger waste incinerators in ...
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Continuous Mercury Monitoring Requires Reliable and Sensitive Technology
Mercury monitoring requires high standards of quality from a measuring technology. In this article we will introduce you to the Gasmet Continuous Mercury Monitoring (CMM) System based on the Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence (CVAF) measurement principle. It is an extremely selective monitoring system that has the highest possible sensitivity for Mercury. Read more to find out what this involves. ...
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Unparalleled efficiency for continuous mercury monitoring - CMM AutoQAL
Continuous mercury monitoring?is the most efficient way to prevent occupational and environmental hazards caused by airborne Hg. With Gasmet CMM AutoQAL there is no need for an external gas generator for QAL3 operations, which leads to saved time and money. Robust Continuous Mercury Monitoring system comes with a test gas generator including automatic EN 15267 certified QAL3 validation tool. The ...
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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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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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ENVEA launches at Pollutec its new generation of Mercury CEMS
With over 25 years of expertise in mercury monitoring, ENVEA presents its new generation of Mercury CEMS. The SM-5 allows continuous, accurate and reliable measurement of very low concentrations of mercury in flue gas emissions. The system has successfully completed the QAL1 test according to EN 16267 at the TÜV on the lowest range on the market (0-5 μg/Nm3), without the ...
By ENVEA
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LafargeHolcim on Gasmet’s CMM system: Taking control of mercury emissions gives us peace of mind - Case Study
LafargeHolcim, the largest producer?of cement in the world, uses Gasmet’s Continuous Mercury Monitoring (CMM) system to monitor mercury emissions and maintain a higher level of safety in cement production. They obtained the CMM system from RACI, a distributor of Gasmet’s systems operating in Slovenia and Croatia. A quick distributor and a reliable continuous Hg monitoring system with ...
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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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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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A Global Solution for Mercury Monitoring and Process Optimization - Case Study
The Incineration and Energy from Waste (EfW) sectors face tighter emission controls, to meet updated national regulations, whilst facing increasing pressure to reduce plant operating costs. The Minamata Convention on Mercury (Hg), a global agreement on environment and health protection adopted in 2013, includes the need to control and reduce Hg emissions from the related industrial sectors. ...
By ENVEA
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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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WI BAT conclusions finally published – key findings
The final draft of the Best Available Technology Reference document for Waste Incineration (WI BREF) was accepted by European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau (EIPPCB) on summer 2019 and the WI BAT conclusions published on 3rd December 2019, under the IED Directive 2010/75/EU. This BAT conclusions covers the incineration and co-incineration of waste, including the following ...
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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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Diurnal variations of total mercury (THg), reactive mercury (RHg), and dissolved gaseous mercury and water/air mercury flux in warm and cold season from fresh waters of Southwestern China
Diurnal variations of water total mercury (THg), reactive mercury (RHg), and dissolved gaseous mercury (DGM) concentrations and mercury flux were monitored at two sites in warm and cold season in an alkaline reservoir in Southwestern China. Concentrations of THg and RHg as well as Hg fluxes usually exhibited a consistent diurnal trend with elevated values observed during day. The increasing ...
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