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Mercury Emissions Capture Efficiency with Activated Carbon Injection at a Russian Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant
Citation:
Zykov, A., L. Anichkov, L. Korshevets, E. Strel’tslova, M. Leonova, S. Durkee, S. Serre, N. Hutson, G. Futsaeter, W. Jozewicz, AND J. Munthe. Mercury Emissions Capture Efficiency with Activated Carbon Injection at a Russian Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-14/299, 2014.
Impact/Purpose:
Among other things, this report will aid the major task, of developing guidance on best available mercury control technology/best environmental practices (BAT/BEP) for coal-fired power plants, a major source a global anthropogenic emissions. (The new Minamata Convention requires BAT/BEP for new power plants and other major emission sources within five years of treaty ratification.)
Description:
This EPA-led project, conducted in collaboration with UNEP, the Swedish Environmental Institute and various Russian Institutes, that demonstrates that the mercury emission control efficiencies of activated carbon injection technologies applied at a Russian power plant burning Russian coals are similar to those found at U.S. plants burning US coals. (The US funding was from funds provided to the EPA by the Department of State pursuant to the Bio-Chemical Redirect Program which engages former Russian (and other former Soviet) weapons scientists in research projects with US collaborators.)
URLs/Downloads:
www.unep.org/chemicalsandwaste/Portals/9/Mercury/Documents/coal/Report%20JOINT%20Demo-Cherepetskaya%20FINAL.pdf