A Reliable Solution for Continuous Stack Mercury Monitoring

Already the standard for monitoring dioxins/furans around the world, the AMESA system from Environnement S.A (France) has been modified to serve as a mercury trap system, based on the performance specifications 12B, for the continuous monitoring of mercury emissions. Suitable for nearly every application, the AMESA-M has numerous advantages to other mercury systems on the market. New US-regulations e.g. the final Portland Cement MACT Rule or the new Mercury & Air Toxic Standards (MATS) which covers all coal fired power plants increase the demand for continuous mercury monitoring. The MACT standard describes in the performance specification 12B (PS 12B, a modification of US EPA method 30B) an adsorption trap method which is applicable for continuous mercury sampling and monitoring.

The AMESA-M system is adapted to the different flue gas conditions and requirements given by the operators: the availability under difficult flue gas conditions could be kept by values of almost 100 %.

At the 11th “ICMGP International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant” held in Edinburgh, Scotland, From July 28th – August 2nd 2013, Mr Jurgen Reinmann – Environnement S.A’s international specialist for Dioxin, PCB and Heavy metal monitoring - demonstrated that for low mercury concentration levels of less than 0.5 ug/Nm3, the load of the coal does not have any influence on the emission values, consequently demonstrating an efficient flue gas cleaning. All tests and measurements performed, confirmed the good performance of the AMESA-M system and a high degree of availability has been established.

Discover this instrument at Pollutec 2013: HALL 6, Stand K132