CONSOL R&D has provided coal combustion sampling and analytical laboratory services for over 30 years, performing hundreds of full-scale testing programs and emissions evaluations on facilities across the United States in partnership with power producers, utilities, U.S. DOE, EPA and EPRI and state government agencies.

Comprehensive mercury field-testing and analytical services are available to assist power plant operators and owners determine mercury emissions, co-benefit mercury removal potential and compliance options, including the selection of pollution controls to meet compliance goals, reduce cost, and minimize operating problems.

Experience

• Recognized leader in emissions measurement and analysis for more than 20 years.
• Unsurpassed experience in full-scale electric utility field tests for mercury measurement, speciation and abatement.
• Advanced understanding of air pollution control device effects on mercury speciation.
• State-of-the-art laboratory facilities providing solid and liquid analyses to numerous clients.

Projects

• Awarded numerous contracts by electric utilities to perform mercury speciation and mass balance testing.
• Awarded a variety of field and analytical projects for power producers.
• U.S. DOE has awarded CONSOL R&D a three-year cooperative agreement to examine the effect of SCR on mercury removal in ten power plants with FGD.

QA/QC

• Experience equals quality.
• Mercury sampling and analysis is complex and, if not completed with very high QA/QC standards, can easily result in erroneous data.
• Analytical instrument calibrations validated using NIST reference materials.
• Selected samples are analyzed in duplicate and selected liquid samples are spiked with mercury and reanalyzed
• All sampling equipment is CONSOL R&D owned/maintained and all sample analysis is performed in-house.

Title V Compliance Testing

• Annual testing of emissions to satisfy Title V permit require¬ments for SO2, NOx, CO, nmVOC, and particulate matter.
• Same day or next day results are often possible.
• Protocol-to-test report capability.
• All analyses are performed in-house = full control of data quality.

Ontario Hydro Method

• Four 2-hour test sets to assure test data quality.
• Sampling closely coordinated between all sampling locations and operations.
• Process solid and liquid samples from all mercury inlet and outlet points.

Mercury Mass Balance

• An integral part of mercury measurement and speciation determination.
• Validates data and provides confidence to support mercury compliance decisions.

Analytical Expertise

• CONSOL R&D's Analytical Lab is a recognized leader in coal/power generation industry.
• Leader in ASTM D5 coal and coke analytical method development.
• Impinger solution mercury concentration measured with cold vapor atomic absorption spec-troscopy (CVAA) as specified by EPA Method 29 and Ontario Hydro Method.
• Mercury content of solids is determined by ASTM D6722 using high temperature combustion atomic absorption spectroscopy.
• Calibration with commercial mercury standards.
• Calibration validated with NIST Standard 1641D.
• QA/QC sample spikes and duplicates as per the Ontario Hydro method.

Data Analysis and Interpretation, and Project Report

• On-site data reduction and review.
• Three-tier quality review of all field and analytical data and calculations by professionals with 20+ years of experience.
• Results reported on concentration (ppm), mass flow rate (pound per hour), and lb/TBtu basis.
• Review of control room data from test periods for trend analysis.
• The most comprehensive reporting available.
• Reports provided in confidential electronic and paper formats.

Summary

CONSOL R&D provides a full-service emissions testing product performing all aspects of the service. CONSOL R&D is uniquely equipped to provide a wide variety of field tests to assist power generators with emissions testing, determining equipment emissions reduction capability and evaluating compliance strategies. CONSOL R&D has an experienced staff to perform the testing, sample analysis, data interpretation and reporting. In addition, CONSOL R&D provides clients with support in evaluating a variety of compliance options.

For More Information Contact
Jim Locke
CONSOL R&D
4000 Brownsville Road
South Park, PA 15129-9566
Phone: (412) 854-6607
Fax: (412) 854-6613
jimlocke@consolenergy.com
www.consolenergy.com