Low Maintenance Gaseous Mercury Monitoring for Waste to Energy Plants

Furulund, Sweden based gas analysis and process control specialist, Opsis AB has developed a system to address challenge of measuring total gaseous mercury content. According to the company this is a particular problem due to chemical reactions and contamination, with suitable systems often requiring a lot of maintenance and still not giving reliable results. OPSIS claimed that its System 400 is features a simple design and provides plants with an accurate mercury analyser which will operate with a minimum of maintenance while offering a fast response time. The company added that the system has been type tested and approved according to EN 15267 by TÜV, Germany, and MCERTS, UK, for both Hg0 and HgTOT, as well as other gaseous compounds. The approvals comprise CEM installations such as waste to energy plants, cement industries and power plants. Besides the measurements of Hg0 and HgTOT, the company claimed that the same system can measure a large number of other gases required by legislation such as NOx, SO2, CO, CO2, NH3, H2O, HF, and HCl. OPSIS added that the system has low cost of ownership based on few moving parts, long intervals between calibrations, easy operation and low energy consumption. Read More Energos Waste Gasification Technology Selected for UK Waste to Energy Plant Energos has been appointed as technology provider for a waste gasification facility that is part of AmeyCespa's proposed Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park. Waste Wood to Coal Like Biofuel Technology Commercialised in U.S. EnviraCarbon, is to commercialise its technology which molecularly alters wood wastes into coal like EnvirAnized Biofuel. Waste to Energy Barometer Warns of Challenging Times An annual survey of the waste-to-energy industry, the WtE Industry Barometer 2013, has industry.