mercury scrubber News
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Scrubbers In Other Countries Remove More Mercury Than U.S. Emits
Power plants in the U.S. emit 48 tons per year of mercury. Power plants outside the U.S. remove more than 50 tons per year of mercury, and this quantity will increase to over 80 tons by 2010. This new finding by the McIlvaine Company is based on its individual plant data and forecasts contained in the Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System. A big debate is raging over the ...
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Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. Launches New Mercury Control Product
Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. ("ME2C" or the "Company"), a leader in mercury emissions control in North America, announced today that it is adding a new product to its proven, cost-effective mercury capture program that will reduce mercury emissions by preventing scrubber reemission events. The product is specifically designed for coal-fired power utilities with wet scrubbers to help remove ...
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Nations agree first global treaty to ban mercury emissions
A legally binding global treaty to curb mercury in the environment, agreed after a week of gruelling negotiations in Geneva, will also include a funding facility to assist developing countries in phasing out the toxic heavy metal in industrial processes and in artisanal gold mining in Africa, Asia and Latin America The Minamata Convention on Mercury, named after the Japanese port where people ...
By SciDev.Net
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$2 billion/yr market for mercury removal from stack gases
The market for equipment and consumables to measure and remove mercury from stack gases will average over $2 billion/yr over the next decade. This is the latest forecast in the online McIlvaine "Mercury Air Reduction Markets". There are three immediate markets, all are in the U.S. They are cement, utility boilers and industrial boilers. Hundreds of millions of dollars has already been spent by ...
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