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Forest fires increase mercury emissions
Mercury is a global pollutant arising from many sources, including biomass burning (BMB), which includes both wildfires and intentional fires to clear land. A recent study estimates that mercury emissions from BMB make up 8 per cent of total global mercury emissions. Mercury emissions from BMB have received growing attention. Forests in particular act as mercury sinks because atmospheric ...
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P S Analytical Celebrates 25 Years of Excellence
In 2008 P S Analytical celebrates its 25th anniversary as one of the leading suppliers of Instrumentation and Technology in the Environmental Market. P S Analytical is proud to be ISO 9001:2000 certified and to provide online systems which meet international standards. P S Analytical specializes in the supply of instrumentation for ultra-low level determination and the speciation of ...
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The 21st Seminar for Air Pollution Control Technology 2017 in Hangzhou, China
Lumex Instruments experts took part in the 21st Seminar for Air Pollution Control Technology from 22 to 23 of April. This national event was organized by Chinese Society of Environmental Science. China signed Minamata convention on Mercury and ratified it in August 2016. Thereby a lot of attention is paid to the problems of reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in this country ...
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Lumex Instruments is taking part in 13th Multi-pollutant emissions from coal workshop (MEC13)
Lumex Instruments experts will present a paper on universal tool for mercury determination in combustion plants at MEC13 workshop which will take place on May 21-23 in Krakow, Poland. Lumex Instruments and Ohio Lumex representatives will talk about RA-915 mercury analyzers, US EPA toolkit, which is recommended by UN Environment as a Best Available Techniques (BAT) for mercury emissions ...
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Lumex Instruments Discussed the Mercury Pollution Problems in Vietnam
Specialists of Lumex Instruments took part in seminar dedicated to the control of environmental pollution by mercury. This event was held on 3rd of April in Vietnam, that had signed the Minamata Convention in 2013. It took place in Center for Environmental Monitoring by the initiative of Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. There our company presented the line of mercury analyzers and ...
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Minamata Convention will help China and India avoid mercury emissions in 2050
Under the United Nations Minamata Convention on mercury, China and India could avoid a combined 242 tonnes of mercury emissions in 2050 from coal-fired power plants, a new study predicts. This amount is equal to approximately 12% of total emissions in 2010. While the benefits will be mostly regional, lower mercury deposition in surrounding oceans is good news for Europeans who eat fish sourced ...
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Mercury Hotspots Detected in Eastern U.S. and Canada
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) – U.S. sources of mercury emissions, particularly coal-fired power plants, are the major cause of five biological mercury hotspots identified in New England, New York and Nova Scotia, according to two new scientific studies. The findings indicate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is greatly underestimating local and regional impacts of mercury emissions, but ...
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Mercury Monitoring Toolkit for India coal energy industry
Lumex Instruments installed the first in India Mercury Monitoring Toolkit at CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CSIR-CIMFR) in Dhanbad. During the installation, the Lumex Instruments specialists visited one of the Thermal Power Plants in the state of West Bengal to perform sampling on the sorbent traps in field environment. The sampling system performed well despite tough ...
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P S Analytical presents recent developments in Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry
At Pittcon 2008, PSA will be presenting posters detailing their latest developments in Continuous Emissions Monitoring and Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy for determination and speciation. This year’s posters will include latest work on the determination of total gaseous mercury in ambient air. Coal-burning power plants are the largest anthropogenic source of mercury emissions to the air. ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Offers Simpler Solution to System Integrity Testing for Mercury Emissions Monitoring
FRANKLIN, Mass. (May 9, 2007) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announces the Model 81i MCG mercuric chloride generator, a simpler solution to the demand for weekly system integrity testing for mercury emissions monitoring at coal-fired power plants. An optional feature for new systems and a simple retrofit for installed units, the Model 81i MCG is a fully ...
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Continuous Mercury Monitoring with State-of-the-Art Technology = Gasmet CMM
With the introduction of ever tightening legislation for emissions, new challenges are also facing the equipment that is used for continuous monitoring of trace pollutants. In the United States, the Clean Air Mercury Rule will establish strict limits for Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. Gasmet Technologies decided to meet this challenge with a novel approach together with the ...
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Mercury Rising – Enviro Technology and mercury monitoring
The first global treaty on mercury has put the metal firmly on the emissions monitoring agenda in 2013. The Minamata Convention – which binds governments in over 140 countries to actively prevent mercury emissions and releases – was signed in January 2013. Mercury has long since been recognised as a chemical of global concern due to both its ability to travel long distances in the ...
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Calgon Carbon Launches New FLUEPAC® Products to Enhance Mercury Capture and Reduce Activated Carbon Consumption by 50-70%
Calgon Carbon Corporation (NYSE: CCC) announced that it has launched an advanced FLUEPAC® line of products to control an increasing environmental concern, mercury emissions in the coal-fired electric power generation market. These products have the ability to reduce carbon injection rates by 50 to 70 percent below that of standard products, while exceeding the mercury removal requirements ...
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Global Agreement on Mercury Pollution In the Works
The soaring price of gold may be increasing mercury pollution locally and worldwide. The poisonous heavy metal is used to extract gold from ore in many artisanal mining operations which involve millions of workers and their families. Experts also worry that the increased burning of coal, which naturally contains mercury, is causing the toxic to be released into the air and spread around the ...
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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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Better estimates of worldwide mercury pollution
Original story at MIT News Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants, the pollutant has a complicated trajectory; even after it settles onto land and sinks into oceans, mercury can be re-emitted back into the atmosphere repeatedly. This so-called “grasshopper effect” keeps the highly toxic substance circulating as “legacy emissions” ...
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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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