Quick 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.

It is mounted on the outside of the cabinet with a growing number of components. I will take another picture of the cabinet and post later. I’ll also let you know how it works.

Most of the problems that we were having stemmed from some wiring mistakes that were made when the “X box” cabinet was assembled. The “X box” is basically the components from the standard blue box probe controller that have been mounted in a NEMA enclosure suitable for the stack environment. Once the wiring problems were identified they were not that difficult to fix.

Unit 2 was still experiencing a few problems that are probably due to a leak in the probe tubing. Hopefully that won’t be too hard to fix.

Hopefully by the end of this week both systems will be running and have the hydrator and lamp upgrade installed. We will hopefully be receiving the nitrogen generators and the mercuric chloride generators soon.

I’ll post some more details as soon as I can.