SO2 control News
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Advanced, Compact Fluidized Slurry Gas Scrubber effectively handles SO2 at a carbon products manufacturer in Western PA
Bionomic Industries, Inc., a leading manufacturer of cutting-edge scrubber systems technology, has announced successful startup of an advanced fluidized slurry sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas scrubber at a facility in Western Pennsylvania. The compact, highly efficient scrubber utilizes Bionomics' patented RotaBed™ technology to harness the movement of the flue gas to provide both mixing and gas ...
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World CEMS Market to Exceed $583 Million in 2009
The market for continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) to measure pollutants discharged from stacks will rise to $583 million/yr in 2009. The total monitoring market including ambient monitoring and stack testing will reach the $ billion level worldwide in 2009. These are the conclusions provided in “Air Pollution Monitoring and Sampling World Markets” an online continuously updated ...
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Radical New Approach to Making Power Plant Air Quality Decisions
The potential for using the Internet and teleconferences in making complex power plant air quality decisions has been largely untapped. However, starting July 6 when McIlvaine Company combines its online decision trees with its new “Hot Topic Hour” discussions, full use of these resources will be achieved. Each week participants will spend an hour both viewing branches of decision ...
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Exhibiting at EUEC 2017 - San Diego, CA
Mississippi Lime will be exhibiting at EUEC on Wednesday, February 8th – Friday, February 10th at the San Diego Convention Center, Booth #469. Stop by our booth to discuss: DSI for SO2, SO3, HCI removal High Reactivity Hydrated Lime Products for Air Pollution Control Ash effects of DSI Sorbents On Thursday, 2/9, Richard Zhang, Senior Research Engineer will present Toxic Trace ...
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IIoT and FGD Control: The Opportunity and the Challenge
The industrial internet of things (IIoT) combined with remote operations and maintenance promise to make the reduction of SO2 from power plants much more cost effective. Flue gas desulfurization systems are costly to operate. The reagent consumption can be as high as 4 percent of the total coal consumption. The fans and pumps consume several percent of the plant’s electrical output. Large ...
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Breakthrough Catalyst Filter Technology Controls PM, SO2, HCl, NOx and Dioxins
Who benefits? Boiler owners seeking to comply with Boiler MACT, biomass energy producers, glass manufacturers, chemical companies; companies involved with waste pyrolysis or incineration; metal smelters, metal powder producers, mineral processors, foundries, cement manufacturers. Broad interest to pollution control consultants. Owosso, MI. Tri-Mer Corporation, a technology leader in air ...
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Marine Diesel Scrubber Passes CARB Testing
In 2012 Envitech designed and built a marine diesel scrubber to remove SO2 from the engine exhaust of ocean going vessels. The scrubber was integrated into the Advanced Maritime Emissions Control System (AMECS) used at the Port of Long Beach. AMECS is a stationary system that uses a bonnet to capture the exhaust gas from the ships stack while at port. The exhaust gases are conveyed to AMECS to ...
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Coal Power Plants Look for Ways to Reduce SO2 Emissions with SDA Scrubbers; IGS Helps Plant to Ensure SDA Scrubbers Perform for an Extended Lifetime at Antelope Valley Basin Electric
Many coal-based power plants have increased their emissions control because of regulatory requirements. One of the emissions output that is watched very closely by regulatory agencies are sulfur dioxide (SO2) gases. Investments in new equipment for removing SO2 emissions can be very costly and coal power plants are looking for ways to meet the regulatory requirements without having to replace ...
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Chinese Air Pollution Control Expenditures To Reshape Multiple Industries
The Chinese investment in new air pollution control equipment in the next ten years will not only reshape the air pollution industry but will also reshape the industries supplying components such as dampers, fans, expansion joints, fabricated alloy structures, monitors, and optimization software. China will buy more SO2 scrubbers and NOx control systems than any other country and, in ...
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Coping With the Shortage of Trained Power Plant Air Quality Engineers
Along with the resurgence of coal-fired power generation there has developed a severe shortage of trained power plant air quality engineers. This shortage is universal. There are not enough trained people at the power plants, the consulting firms, or at the supplier companies. The shortage is worldwide and accelerating as developing countries are investing in better air quality. To ...
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Bionomic Industries Completes Successful Start-Up and Test of Scrubber in SO2 Removal Application
Bionomic Industries, Inc., a leading manufacturer of scrubbing equipment and "prepackaged" scrubber systems, has recently completed successful start-up and testing of their patented Rotabed Scrubber in an SO2 scrubbing application at Fort James Paper in Camus, WA. According to mill personel, the Rotabed Scrubber achieved non-detect levels of SO2 at the scrubber outlet using magnesium hydroxide ...
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Essroc cement company to pay $1.7 million penalty to resolve clean air act violations/$33 million investment in pollution controls to reduce smog and asthma causing emissions by more than 7,000 tons per year
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Essroc Cement Company has agreed to pay a $1.7 million penalty and invest approximately $33 million in pollution control technology to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) at six of its Portland Cement manufacturing plants. The settlement will protect Americans’ health by ...
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United Conveyor Corporation Leads the Industry in Dry Sorbent Injection Mill Orders
United Conveyor Corporation (UCC) was recently awarded contracts for 11 Dry Sorbent Injection (DSI) systems which include a total of 41 VIPER™ Mills. Dry sorbent injection is a leading technology for the removal of SO2, HCl and SO3 acid gas emissions. UCC’s industry leading technology, including the new VIPER Mill, provides utilities with an efficient and economical method for ...
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Macrotek Awarded Major Flue Gas Desulphurization Contract for Heavy Oil Recovery Project in Venezuela
Macrotek signed a multi-million dollar contract for the design and supply of a compact flue gas desulphurization (FGD) system for the Venezuelan national oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA). The FGD system will clean up gases from a thermal oxidizer containing a significant concentration of SO2. Hot gases from the oxidizer will be quenched and conditioned in a counter-current ...
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Fabric filter purchases by power plants could exceed all other applications combined
Assuming that fabric filters maintain their small share of the power plant market, world sales of fabric filter systems in 2017 will be just under $9 billion. However, should fabric filters be chosen over precipitators by the power industry, the market could easily be $15 billion or more in 2017. This is the most recent conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in World Fabric Filter and ...
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China Accelerates Plans for Environmental Taxes, Moves to Cut Emissions From Coal
China will speed up the development of environmental tax legislation that could penalize heavy polluters to help the central government pay for programs to address air, soil and water pollution, said a report from the State Council, China's top decision-making body. Authorities from the State Administration of Taxation (SAT), the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Environmental Protection ...
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Visibility to improve at 18 national parks and wilderness areas
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to approve Arizona’s air quality plan to control sulfur dioxide and soot at three power plants in the state. EPA is also proposing additional pollution controls for nitrogen oxide at those plants. These actions will improve visibility and human health at 18 national parks and wilderness areas, including the Grand Canyon, Saguaro ...
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China`s nitrogen emissions could worsen pollution
China"s failure to control nitrogen emissions could mar its success in reducing environmental levels of sulphur dioxide (SO2), a new study finds. Both nitrogen and sulphur emissions are major contributors to soil acidity and environmental pollution. Although China is on target to meet its goal of reducing sulphur dioxide emissions by 10 per cent between 2005 and 2010 — Chinese Premier Wen ...
By SciDev.Net
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Chinese Pollution Will Insure Maximum Air Polllution Expenditures in the U.S.
Recent publicity relative to the contribution of Chinese power plants to smog and soot deposition in California is making the voters aware that pollution control needs to be addressed on a global basis. This will mean that the U.S. must set an example. But given the present regulations the U.S. could find itself in the embarrassing situation of emitting six times as much SO2 as China. The ...
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Asia Will Purchase 64 Percent of Fabric Filter Systems Next Year
Total world sales of fabric filter systems will be $8.8 billion in 2016. Sixty-four percent of the sales will be in Asia. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in N021 World Fabric Filter and Element Market. China is playing a major role in the Asian market. It has been a fast growing and large market over the last decade. Now sales are starting to level off. The major air ...
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