Air Compliance Testing, Inc. has teamed up with Environmental Concerns, Inc. to provide a one-stop, turnkey, comprehensive service to ensure mercury (Hg) monitoring in compliance with Appendix K of Part 75. This service includes:
Presurvey Testing,
Sampling Equipment Specification/Purchase,
Equipment Set-Up at your Facility,
All Required Sample Media,
All Required Analytical Services,
Quarterly Maintenance and Services,
All Required Reporting, and
Complete On-Site Training for your Personnel.
Air Compliance Testing can also help determine the proper spiking levels for triple section traps and perform your annual Relative Accuracy Test Audits (RATA).
40 CFR Part 75 Continuous Emission Monitoring, Appendix K, "Quality Assurance and Operating Procedures for Sorbent Trap Monitoring Systems" specifies sampling, analytical, and quality-assurance criteria and procedures for performance-based monitoring of vapor-phase Hg emissions in combustion flue gas streams, using a sorbent trap monitoring system. The principle employed is continuous sampling using in-stack sorbent media coupled with analysis of the integrated samples. This performance-based approach allows for the use of various suitable sampling and analytical technologies while maintaining a specified and documented level of data quality through performance criteria.
The analyte measured is total vapor-phase Hg in the flue gas, which represents the sum of elemental Hg and oxidized forms of Hg, in mass concentration units of micrograms per dry standard cubic meter (µg/dscm).
Known volumes of flue gas are extracted from the stack through paired, in-stack, pre-spiked sorbent media traps at an appropriate nominal flow rate (Collection of Hg on the sorbent media in the stack mitigates potential loss of Hg during transport through a probe/sample line). Paired train sampling is required to determine measurement precision and verify acceptability of the measured emissions data.
Ohio Lumex Sorbent Trap Specifications:
Spiked/Un-Spiked 3 -Section Sorbent Traps available in all sizes - 6 mm and 10 mm OD;
Iodinated, Acid Washed Coconut Shell Charcoal. 150 mg and 1 g loading on small/large trap section
Low Mercury Background Levels - less then 2 ng per section
Easy to Remove and Easy to Set for "Leak Check" Cap Plugs
Customized Spiking Level for 3rd Section - 50 to 200,000 ng loadings available
Rigorous QA/QC Procedures at Every Manufacturing Step
Long Term Storage Stability - 1 year
Long Sampling Duration - up to 2 weeks or more
High Capacity Mercury Loading Tested - up to 200,000 ng per section
Apex instruments XC-6000EPC MercSampler System Includes:
Probe
Sample Line
Chiller
Control Console Laptop/Software
Apex Instruments XC-6000EPC MercSampler Simplifies Mercury Emission Sampling by Automating:
