CEMS
Air pollution monitoring market to rise 20% in 2010 due to greenhouse gas measurement needs
Interesting predictions about the growth in the CEMS market can be found here. It is pretty likely that as the EPA imposes restrictions and taxes on CO2 emissions that the need to maintain reliable and accurate CEMS will become even more important. It will also be interesting to see how the Hg CEMS market progresses.…
Read MoreThermo Scientific press release regarding tested systems
Thermo recently released a press release saying that they had 25 systems that have passed all of the required regulatory testing (I’m sure that they mean as far as they can given the state of the regulations and standards at this point). Hopefully we will soon be able to add a couple more to the…
Read MoreMCG installation a little rough
The installation of the MCG’s has been going a little rough. At this time we have one of the units installed but not completely tested. We have the first production “X Box” systems and the design has been updated and standardized since we installed ours. As a result there are a few standard parts that…
Read MoreThe final few steps in Hg CEMS implementation
We are working on the last few steps to complete the project. Thermo sent us a mercuric choloride generator for a game cube probe but we have the modified inertial probe installed so we had to wait a couple of months for the right kit. We are scheduled to have it installed the week of…
Read MoreMercury Systems are Operational
A long overdue update… All of the little issues have finally been resolved and both Mercury Freedom Systems are working. We have the mercuric chloride generators and nitrogen generators on order and expect to receive them in the next few weeks. We encountered a number of difficulties during the commissioning of the systems. Our original…
Read MoreQuick update on status of Mercury CEMS Installation
Quite a bit of progress has been made. Unit 1 is up and running. Thermo was installing the lamp upgrade in the analyzer and the calibration gas hydrator today. Below is a picture of the hydrator….
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…
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