Session: Mercury and Other Trace Elements in Fuel: Emissions, Control, and Measurement I (2010 Spring National Meeting)

Monday, March 22, 2010: 8:00 AM

Travis C/D (Grand Hyatt San Antonio)

Description:

Topics will include, but not be limited to: • Mercury and other trace elements in fuels • Mercury and trace element chemistry in flue gas • Mercury chemistry in wet scrubbers • Measurement: challenges, solutions and continuous emissions monitors (CEMs) • Control technologies: development and status • Novel sorbents • Surface studies and reaction mechanisms for trace elements • Impact of control technologies on coal by-product utilization • Trace element capture from syngas • Catalysts for the oxidation of mercury • Impacts of sulfur trioxide on capture of mercury • Status of regulations for mercury

Sponsor:

Topical 2: Advanced Fossil Energy Utilization

Co-Sponsor(s):

Environmental Division (09), Fuels and Petrochemicals Division (16)

Chair:

Evan J. Granite
Email: evan.granite@netl.doe.gov

- indicates paper has an Extended Abstract file available on CD.

8:00 AM

(14a) Boiler Bromide Addition - A Survey on Bromine Based Mercury Abatement from Flue Gases at Coal Combustion and Waste Incineration Plants
Bernhard W. Vosteen

8:45 AM

(14b) Modeling Mercury Chemistry in Coal-Fired Air Preheaters: Effects of Sulfur Trioxide and Surface Area
Brydger Van Otten, Andrew Fry and Constance L. Senior

9:10 AM

(14c) Speciation Control of Mercury for Coal-Fired Power Plants
Jinghui Vivi Lu, J.V. Meier, J.J. Dillon, M.P. Beck and B.A. Keiser

9:35 AM

(14d) Mercury Control with Regenerative Activated Coke Technology
James Peters

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