Grantee Research Project Results
Innovative Volatile Heavy-Metal Air-Toxics Control
EPA Contract Number: 68D50142Title: Innovative Volatile Heavy-Metal Air-Toxics Control
Investigators: Nelson, Sid
Small Business: Sorbent Technologies Corporation
EPA Contact: Richards, April
Phase: II
Project Period: September 1, 1995 through October 1, 1998
Project Amount: $220,000
RFA: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Phase II (1995) Recipients Lists
Research Category: SBIR - Air Pollution , Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) , Air Quality and Air Toxics
Description:
The emission of mercury into the atmosphere from combustion sources has increasingly become a major environmental and health concern. The recent Clean Air Act Amendments have called for close scrutiny and possible limits on mercury emissions. Unfortunately, because it is in the form of a vapor or submicron aerosol in gas streams, elemental mercury has proven very difficult and expensive to control.A new inexpensive dry sorbent material was recently discovered that exhibits a surprising capability to capture this air-toxic from gases. Initial experiments have shown high preferential sorption of mercury under typical flue gas conditions, as well as potential for the simple recovery of the sorbed mercury. The proposed Phase II work will carry forward the research begun in Phase I. More specifically, it will involve the investigation and optimization of the new sorbents in the laboratory and the demonstration of their use in a pilot panel-bed filter at an existing refuse incineration site.
Supplemental Keywords:
small business, SBIR, air emissions, engineering, chemistry., RFA, Air, Scientific Discipline, Waste, Toxics, Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, 33/50, Engineering, Chemistry, & Physics, Incineration/Combustion, Atmospheric Sciences, air toxics, Environmental Engineering, aerosol, gas phase, heavy metals, mercury & mercury compounds, aerosol particles, combustion contaminants, incineration, flue gases, mercury absorbtion, Clean Air Act, emission control strategies, dry sorbent, emission controls, chemical contaminants, combustion byproducts, combustion, combustion technology, flue gas, ambient emissions, Clean Air Act , emission control technologies, air pollutants, atmospheric aerosols, emissions contol engineering, mercury abatement technology, ambient air quality, air pollution, mercury monitoring, mercuryProgress and Final Reports:
SBIR Phase I:
Innovative Volatile Heavy-Metal Air-Toxics ControlThe perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.