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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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California Diverts Fluorescents From Landfills
The California Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to keep millions of compact fluorescent bulbs out of landfills because they contain small amounts of mercury. The state agency is working in collaboration with the U.S. EPA under the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities program, NPEP. Cal/EPA, the first state agency to join the partnership program, would like to help ...
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Johnson Matthey Licenses DOE Patent to Remove Mercury and Arsenic from New IGCC Coal Power Plants
MALVERN, PA– Johnson Matthey announced today that it has been granted an exclusive license by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) for its high temperature sorbent technology and patent to remove mercury, arsenic and potentially selenium and cadmium from syngas produced by coal gasification. This license was a natural extension of a two-year Cooperative ...
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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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Mercury Removal from Exhaust Stacks and Process Gas is a Shifting Billion Dollar/yr. Market
New technologies, geographies and regulations are creating an ever changing market for mercury removal from exhaust stacks and process gases. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company in N056 Mercury Air Reduction Market. The largest application is coal-fired boilers. Natural gas purification, sewage sludge incinerators, waste-to-energy plants and other facilities are significant ...
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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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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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Mercury Removal Market to Exceed $1 Billion/yr by 2015
Next year U.S. utilities, industrial boilers and cement plants will be required to limit mercury emissions from stack exhausts. This set of laws alone will immediately double the market for mercury removal consumables and hardware. When this new opportunity is combined with the markets in waste incineration, mining and oil and gas, the total will exceed $1 billion/yr. This is the conclusion ...
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China can remove Mercury at Low Cost Thanks to U.S. Developments
In order to meet tough regulations in the U.S. technology developers have made great strides in creating low cost routes to achieve mercury removal from power plant exhausts. The cost is especially low if the plant already has a scrubber. China is installing scrubbers on nearly all its plants. As a result China can remove mercury with just a tiny percent increase in its air pollution control ...
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Calgon Carbon Awarded Contract to Supply FLUEPAC® for Mercury Removal
Calgon Carbon Corporation (NYSE: CCC) announced that it has been awarded a contract by a major U.S. power generator to supply FLUEPAC® brominated powdered activated carbon (PAC) to remove mercury from the fluegas of coal-fired power plants in the Midwest. The value of the contract is estimated to be $16 to $22 million. The two-year contract follows the expiration of a five-year, take-or-pay ...
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Calgon Carbon Responds to U.S. Court of Appeal’s Ruling on Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Rule
Calgon Carbon Corporation (NYSE: CCC) (the Company) announced its satisfaction with today’s ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the Court) to leave MATS in effect while remanding it to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for further proceedings. In doing so, the Court noted that EPA has represented that it is on track to issue a final ...
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Calgon Carbon awarded US$55m contract for mercury removal from flue gas
Calgon Carbon Corporation (CCC: NYSE) has been awarded a contract by a major US power generator to supply Fluepac MC+ and Fluepac CF+ activated carbon to remove mercury from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants in the Midwest. Under terms of the guaranteed contract, the customer has agreed to purchase over the next five years a minimum amount of activated carbon valued at $55 million. Fluepac ...
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P S Analytical Online Mercury in Natural Gas Analyser Achieves ATEX Certification
As part of its ongoing product development P S Analytical has recently received the ATEX EC-Type certification permitting our online mercury measurement system for natural gas to be installed in Category 2 IIC T4 designated areas. The procedure used for the measurement of mercury by atomic fluorescence basically follow the ASTM 6350-98 and ISO 6978-2 procedure and the PSA 10.670 is specifically ...
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EPA issues rule to reduce mercury releases from steel manufacturing facilities
EPA issued new air emissions standards that will reduce mercury releases from steel manufacturers using electric arc furnaces. The rule requires these steel making facilities to buy motor vehicle scrap from providers that participate in an EPA-approved program for the removal of mercury switches. This program, the National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program, is designed to remove ...
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Technology Demonstrates Unparalleled Success in Mercury Removal From Flue Gas Emissions
MercuRemoval, developer of gas treatment solutions, recently announced successful results of a trial in which its technology demonstrated dramatically high efficiency in removing mercury from flue gas emission, with mercury absorption and removal rate reaching 98%. The trials are conducted in collaboration with Israel Electric Corporation (IEC). The technology was developed by Professor Yoel ...
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WRAP pioneers technique to remove mercury from FPD shred
The Waste & Resources Action Programme is pioneering a technique to recover mercury from LCD flat panel display shred, which can potentially be used for bulk scale commercial recycling. WRAP, currently inviting companies to tender to demonstrate the process that separates high-quality materials from size reduced LCD displays until 1 February, 2010, say in their tender document: “Assessment of ...
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Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. to Host Third Quarter 2018 Financial Results Conference Call on November 13th at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
LEWIS CENTER, Ohio, Nov. 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. (OTCQB: MEEC) ("ME2C" or the "Company"), a global leader in mercury emissions control for the power industry, will host a conference call on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time to discuss its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2018. A press release detailing these ...
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Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. Adds Frederick G. Van Zijl to the Board of Directors
LEWIS CENTER, Ohio, Oct. 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. (OTCQB: MEEC) ("ME2C®" or the "Company"), a global leader in mercury emissions control for the power industry, today announced that Frederick “Rick” G. Van Zijl has joined the Board of Directors, effective October 8, 2018. Mr. Van Zijl has held key business development, leadership and ...
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P S Analytical achieves ISO 9001:2000 and ATEX Certification
Following an assessment by an independent body, P S Analytical has been awarded ISO 9001 certification. This certification has only been achieved by about 5% of UK businesses and this prestigious award is supported by the Government and recognised worldwide. Said a delighted Prof Peter Stockwell “We have always been proud of the service we offer our clients and the way that we conduct our ...
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The problem with LCD monitors has been solved
LCD flat-screen monitors contain mercury in their backlight, which means they are classified as hazardous waste in the sense of the EWC, and belong to collection group 3 of the Electrical and Electronic Appliance Law. To effectively access this backlighting system, the surface of the screen has to be detached without releasing any pollutants. We have solved this problem with a fully-automated ...
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