Live Blogging from the OSISoft Conference in Monterey, CA Aug 6-10
I will be live blogging from the OSISoft Conference in a couple of weeks. It has been about 3 years since I have been able to make it to a conference and I am really looking forward to catching up on…
Read MoreSlow progress on Mercury CEMS Installation
We have been working on the Thermo Fisher Scientific Mercury Freedom installation for 3 weeks and have hit a series of snags. We are the first production installation (there is 1 R&D unit running) of the probe controller on the stack using the 82X configuration dubbed the “X Box”. Basically we did not want to…
Read MoreEarly impressions of Thermo Mercury Freedom System
We are in the early stages of commissioning two new Thermo Fisher Scientific Mercury Freedom Systems at St Johns River Power Park in Jacksonville, FL. It is nice to have a customer who has decided to be an early adopter of this technology. There are still a lot of unanswered questions and uncertainty but I…
Read MoreMajor CEMS upgrade mostly completed
We have recently completed upgrading two NOx/SOx CEMS systems at St Johns River Power Park in Jacksonville, FL. This project was started during the summer of 2006 when I started a series of meetings with the plant staff to review their existing systems piece by piece and ultimately developed a very detailed specification for the…
Read MoreCustom Operator Reports to Ensure Environmental Compliance
Everyone struggles to comply with the assortment of environmental restraints that are the result of federal, state, local, and permit requirements. It is important to present information to your operators in an unambiguous manner that lets them know immediately if they are on target. I recently put together a little solution for a customer who was having problems. They could produce reports from…
Read MoreEUEC DVD’s
I met Troy Sonnier of Milivox while at the EUEC. His company digitally recorded all of the presentations given at the conference. His people had video cameras and laptops and were directly connected to the presentation computer so that they could directly record the PowerPoint presentation with the presenter audio. The camera captured the presenter…
Read MoreEUEC Wrapup
I’m a little overwhelmed as I look through my 26 pages of notes that I have taken during this conference. I still have a lot to digest and a few new things to research. Overall, here are my impressions regarding Mercury Measurement. Time is wasting and the vendors are still working hard to improve their equipment.…
Read MoreGood source of Mercury policy information
The information that you see on my site will most likely be the nuts and bolts details of implementing Continuous Mercury Monitoring systems. I have found a good source of mercury policy information with details of legislation and court challenges to CAMR. You can find it at the Mercury Emissions Blog. enjoy.
Read MoreEUEC – Start of day 2
We are just starting the second day of the EUEC. Yesterday offered a gem or two during the Mercury sessions. Dieter Kita of Thermo Fisher gave an update on their systems. For the most part he covered things that I already knew. There were a few new items. The first is that they are using…
Read MoreEUEC Live Blogging – Early Mercury CEMS Sessions
I have just finished the early Hg CEMS sessions at the EUEC. Sid Nelson Jr. of Sorbent Technologies, Inc. gave an interesting presentation discussing recent Hg deposition and health effects studies. The CAMR was based on a couple of fundamental assumptions, one that the deposition of Mercury was global, i.e. there are no hot spots…
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