Mercury pollution control

Suggs, J.D., D.H. Petersen, and James B. Middlebrook, J., 1972, Mercury Pollution Control in Stream and Lake Sediments Water Pollution Control Research Series, U.S. EPA, 39 p. 

Glass GE, Sorensen JA, Rapp GR Jr. 1998. Mercury deposition and lake quality trends. Report to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paul, MN. 

Ensor KL, Helwig DD, Wemmer LC. 1992. Mercury and lead in Minnesota common loons (Gavia immer). Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Water Quality Division. 

CPCB (2008) Guidelines for environmentally sound mercury management in fluorescent lamp sector. Central Pollution Control Board, Delhi... 

Jernelov, A., L. Landner, and T. Larsson. 1975. Swedish perspectives on mercury pollution. Jour. Water Pollut. Control Fed. 47 810-822. 

According to the vendor, Alka/Sorb is capable of meeting the most stringent state standards for all emissions, including dioxin/furans and mercury. The vendor also states that AUca/Sorb is one of the few air pollution control systems capable of meeting stringent European Union (EU) emission standards. 

Pollution Control. Zeolite adsorbents can effectively remove pollutants such as S02, H2S, and NO from industrial off-gas streams at near ambient temperature (54-57). Since water vapor usually exists along with these acidic compounds, an acid-stable or acid-resistant zeolite adsorbent is necessary for a long service life. Union Carbide announced three new processes for pollution control recently. They are the PuraSiv-Hg process for mercury vapor removal, the PuraSiv-N process for NO removal from nitric acid plant off-gas, and the PuraSiv-S process for S02 removal from... 

Assessment of Mercury Contamination in Selected Minnesota Lakes and Streams Minnesota Pollution Control Agency St. Paul, MN, 1989,... 

Existing pollution control devices can remove as much as 99% of the trace elements (except mercury and selenium) from the combustion gases. Substantial amounts of mercury and, to a lesser extent, selenium are emitted with the combustion gases. There are a number of ways to reduce trace-element emissions due to coal combustion. These pollution control options include switching to coals with a lower trace-element content, selectively mining those parts of coal beds with lower trace-element contents, cleaning the mined coal, and using pollution control devices such as fabric filters, electrostatic precipitators, and combustion gas scrubbers. 

Environmental separation Municipal and industrial waste treatment Ground and surface water treatment Air pollution control VOC removal Mercury vapor removal... 

Scrubbers are pollution control devices, which remove pollutants from gas streams, particularly from the combustion gases produced by facilities such as coal-fired power plants. Scrubbers may use absorbents in slurry or solution form (wet scrubbers), or in powder form (dry scrubbers), with wet scrubbers being more often used. Modern scrubbers can consist of several cleaning steps such as dust separation, sulfur removal, capture of mercury, lead, or other heavy metals, and breakdown of nitrogen oxides. Scrubbers of the future will also need to capture and sequester carbon dioxide. Currently, the most common application of scrubbers is still the removal of sulfur, frequently combined with capture of fly-ash. 

The pollution control systems of the new plants will include activated carbon filters for the incinerator exhaust gas. This is fairly new technology, not in common use when JACADS and TOCDF were designed. Trial bum data on those two early plants showed that carbon filters were not needed to meet environmental standards. More recently, however, some samples of mustard have shown unexpectedly high levels of mercury that could be a problem in exhaust emissions. Carbon filters represent the technology of choice for handling this problem. Other changes in the pollution abatement system are required to accommodate the carbon filters. The exhaust gas must be cooled and its humidity reduced to maintain the carbon filter s function. 

NESCAUM (Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management), NEWMOA (Northeast Waste Management Officials Association), NEIWPCC (New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission), and EMAN ( Canadian Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network). 1998. Mercury in Northeastern freshwater fish current level and ecological impacts. Pp. IV.1-IV.21 in Northeast States/Eastem Canadian Provinces Mercury Study — A Frame Work for Action. February, 1998. 

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