Full-scale mercury control trails using B-PAC™ mercury sorbent

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Sid Nelson Jr., snelsonjr@sorbenttechnologies.com, Ronald R. Landreth, Yinzhi Zhang, Quihui Zhou, Zhong Tang, and Xin Lu. Sorbent Technologies Corp, 1664 E. Highland Road, Twinsburg, OH 44087
The Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR), issued in 2005 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, requiring coal-fired power plants to reduce their mercury emissions by approximately 20% beginning in 2010. Numerous states are already requiring swifter and higher mercury reduction levels than what is federally required. For the majority of the coal-fired power plants, the leading technology to comply with the new mercury regulations is activated carbon injection (ACI). A family of PAC-based brominated mercury sorbents has been developed and is commercially manufactured by Sorbent Technologies. They have been tested in numerous full-scale power plants trails. The summary of the test results from these trials is presented in this paper.