Measuring Hg Emissions from Artisanal Gold Mining Shops

56 Pages·2011·1.47 MB·English

by  Laura L. Kinner

35th Conference on Stationary Source Sampling and Analysis for Air Pollutants
35th Conference on Stationary Source Sampling and Analysis for Air Pollutants
Westward Look Resort, Tucson, Arizona
March 20 to 25, 2011
35th Conference on Stationary Source Sampling and Analysis for Air Pollutants
Westward Look Resort, Tucson, Arizona
March 20 to 25, 2011
35th Conference on Stationary Source Sampling and Analysis for Air Pollutants
Westward Look Resort, Tucson, Arizona
March 20 to 25, 2011
35th Conference on Stationary Source Sampling and Analysis for Air Pollutants
Westward Look Resort, Tucson, Arizona
March 20 to 25, 2011
35th Conference on Stationary Source Sampling and Analysis for Air Pollutants
Westward Look Resort, Tucson, Arizona
March 20 to 25, 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chair persons introductory remarks .....................................................................1
Session 1 – Challenging Monitoring Situations and Solutions • Sunday March
20, 19:30 to 22:15 ......................................................................................................3
1.1 MEASURING HG EMISSIONS FROM ARTISANAL GOLD MINING SHOPS .......................................................... 3
1.2 AN SO2 EMISSION RATE MONITORING SYSTEM APPLIED TO A POSITIVE PRESSURE BAGHOUSE OR HOW DO
I MEASURE FLOW AND CONCENTRATION SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM EIGHT SEPARATE STACKS ON A
CONTINUOUS BASIS FOR COMPLIANCE DEMONSTRATION ............................................................................ 3
1.3 REAL-TIME SO3 MEASUREMENTS IN VARIOUS SAMPLE STREAMS OR SO3 BEHAVING BADLY .................... 4
1.4 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A STEAM-ASSISTED FLARE AT HIGH TURNDOWN USING PASSIVE
FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY ........................................................................................ 4
Session 2 – EPA Updates • Monday, March 21, 08:30 to 12:00 ........................... 5
2.1 EPA/OAQPS EMISSIONS MEASUREMENT AND MONITORING PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS 2010/2011 ................. 5
2.2 COLLECTING DATA FOR THE EPA’S REGULATORY PROGRAMS AND MANAGING THE DATA AND SETTING
STANDARDS ONCE WE GET THEM ............................................................................................................... 5
2.3 ELECTRONIC REPORTING: AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO COLLECT DATA TO SUPPORT AIR PROGRAM
REQUIREMENTS ............................................................................................................................................ 5
2.4 DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION OF METHANE AND VOC EMISSIONS FROM OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION
OPERATIONS USING REMOTE MEASUREMENTS ............................................................................................ 6
Session 3 – Analytical Perspectives • Monday, March 21, 19:30 to 22:15 .......... 7
3.1 UTILITY ICR – LABORATORY PERSPECTIVE ................................................................................................. 7
3.2 LABORATORY SAMPLE HANDLING PROCEDURES AND ENHANCEMENT OF DETECTION LIMITS .................... 7
3.3 DETECTION LIMITS: BUDGETED VERSUS WHEN AND WHERE NEEDED ........................................................ 8
3.4 ANALYTICAL ISSUES AND THEIR LEGAL IMPLICATIONS ............................................................................... 8
Session 4 – Electric Generating Units Information Collection Requests •
Tuesday, March 22, 8:30 to 12:00 ..........................................................................9
4.1 UTILITY ICR – EPRI PERSPECTIVE............................................................................................................... 9
4.2 CHALLENGES AND EXPERIENCES FROM THE 2010 UTILITY ICR TESTING – AN EGU PERSPECTIVE ............. 9
4.3 OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF ELECTRONIC REPORTING OF ICR DATA TO THE EPA .......................... 9
4.4 EGU ICR LESSONS LEARNED .................................................................................................................... 10
Session 5 – Organic Measurements • Tuesday, March 22, 19:30 to 22:15 .......11
5.1 VOLATILES ORGANIC SAMPLING TRAIN FUNDAMENTALS .......................................................................... 11
5.2 THE SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS OF ACROLEIN FROM AMBIENT AIR USING O-BENZYLHYDROXYLAMINE
COATED CARTRIDGES ................................................................................................................................ 11
5.3 TESTING AND ANALYSIS OF HIGHLY POLAR VOCS AND ORGANIC ACIDS ................................................. 11
5.4 ACCURATE MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING OF TOTAL VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND (VOC) MASS
EMISSIONS .................................................................................................................................................. 12
5.5 TOC, VOC, THC, TGNMO? WHAT’S IN A NAME?................................................................................... 12
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Session 6 – Regulatory Changes and Other Legal Implications • Wednesday,
March 23, 8:30 to 12:00 .........................................................................................13
6.1 NATIONAL AIR POLLUTION ENFORCEMENT INITIATIVES TARGETED FOR FISCAL YEARS 2011 THROUGH
2013……………… ................................................................................................................................... 13
6.2 IMPLEMENTATION OF REVISIONS TO 40 CFR PARTS 72 AND 75 ................................................................. 13
6.3 WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE WHEN ACCREDITATION WE ATTEMPT TO ACHIEVE ........................ 13
6.4 AN OVERVIEW OF THE SSAS AUDIT SAMPLE PROGRAM AND WHAT IMPACTS IT MAY HAVE ON TESTERS,
LABORATORIES, AND FACILITIES ................................................................................................................ 14
Session 7-- Much Ado About Nothing • Wednesday, March 23, 16:30 to 19:00
..................................................................................................................................15
7.1 “LESS THAN’S”: HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THE DATA ..................................................................... 15
7.2 CHALLENGES IN USING DETECTED AND UNDETECTED RESULTS FOR SETTING MACT EMISSION LIMITS .. 15
7.3 WHEN IS A ‘POSITIVE’ RESULT REAL? ....................................................................................................... 16
7.4 DETERMINING SAMPLING UNCERTAINTY: DO YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR DETECTION LIMIT? ................. 16
Session 8 – Instrumental Developments • Thursday, March 24, 8:30 to 12:0017
8.1 CALIBRATION GASES: WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY ALL ABOUT? .............................................................. 17
8.2 PARTICULATE MATTER INSTRUMENTAL TESTING FOR CPT OPTIMIZATION AT A CEMENT PLANT BURNING
HAZARDOUS WASTE AND RELATED PM MONITORING ISSUES ................................................................... 17
8.3 A HYBRID PM CEMS ................................................................................................................................. 18
8.4 SO3 DETECTION WITH FTIR AND QUANTUM CASCADE LASER SYSTEMS ................................................... 18
Session 9 – Quality Assurance • Thursday, March 24, 19:30 to 22:15 .............19
9.1 AUTOMATED NO2 GENERATION SYSTEM FOR CONVERTER TESTS ............................................................. 19
9.2 FTIRS: THEIR CONFIGURATIONS, THEIR USE, AND THEIR ABUSE .............................................................. 19
9.3 UPDATE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLOW METHODS IN EUROPE ............................................................... 19
9.4 VALIDATION OF LONG-TERM SAMPLING OF PCDD/F IN EMISSION IN MSW INCINERATORS BASED ON THE
FILTER CONDENSER METHOD .................................................................................................................... 20
Session 10 – Manual Methods for the Most Part • Friday, March 25, 8:30 to
12:00 ........................................................................................................................21
10.1 UTILITY ICR EXPERIENCE WITH CONDITIONAL TEST METHOD 033–SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS METHOD
FOR HYDROGEN CYANIDE .......................................................................................................................... 21
10.2 COMPARISON OF MERCURY SORBENT TUBES TO ISOKINETIC SAMPLING METHODS .................................. 21
10.3 CANADIAN PM2.5 SOURCE SAMPLING EXPERIENCE .................................................................................. 21
10.4 A FAST TRACK TO ACCREDITATION BY STAC ........................................................................................... 22
Session 11 – Poster Session • Monday through Thursday, 10:00 to 10:30 and
Monday and Tuesday, 20:00 to 20:30 ..................................................................23
11.1 PARTICULATE CEMS FOR WET AND DRY FGD APPLICATIONS .................................................................. 23
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11.2 NEW OTM - 29: SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS FOR HYDROGEN CYANIDE EMISSIONS FROM STATIONARY
SOURCES .................................................................................................................................................... 23
11.3 POTENTIAL LEGAL ISSUES WITH STACK TESTER ACCREDITATION ............................................................. 24
11.4 I USE F-FACTORS SO MY CEMS EMISSION DATA ARE RIGHT ................................................................... 24
11.5 BUILDING A QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT CONFORMS TO ASTM D7036-04 ............................. 25
11.6 TWO HANDS, THREE BALLS: CUSTOMER & PROSPECT MANAGEMENT (JUGGLING!) AND BUSINESS
BUILDING IN THIS, OR ANY, ECONOMY ...................................................................................................... 25
11.7 PM SPIKING FOR PS11 CALIBRATION ......................................................................................................... 26
A History of the Stationary Source Sampling and Analysis for Air Pollutants
Conference ..............................................................................................................27
LIST of ATTENDEES ...........................................................................................30

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March 20 to 25, 2011

Chair persons introductory remarks

Welcome to the 35th Conference on Stationary Source Sampling and Analysis
for Air Pollutants !!

I am honored to welcome you to the SSSAAP conference which is celebrating its’ 35th meeting
in its’ fortieth year since the first gathering in 1971. I was drawn into the source testing
profession in late 1974 and shortly thereafter I began to hear rumors of an elite collection of
stack testers who would hang up their sampling probes, put a lid on their meter boxes and gather
at the beach for a week-long party. It wasn’t until the mid-eighties that I was introduced to and
joined the Source Evaluation Society but even then the truth about this conference eluded me and
companies that employed me were reluctant to spend money to send us to conferences unless
there was some promising opportunity for marketing activities.

In the latter half of the nineties word of “NELAC” and “Stack Tester Accreditation” found its’
way across the Mississippi to remote Utah. The news inspired me to finally attend my first stack
tester beach party outside of Santa Barbara, California. As the old timers have always known
and the new comers will soon learn, this conference is an incredible opportunity to gather and
exchange technical experiences and developments in our profession. It provides not only the
chance to learn from our peers but also to influence the direction of technical and policy
developments.

My experience of becoming the 2011 Conference Chair began when I received a phone call as I
was getting out of my truck to purchase ice for a stack test in Nampa, Idaho early in 2009. The
call was from a lady from the state of Georgia who I had never met. Her name is DeAnna Oser
and she called to invite me to act as her co-chair for the 2010 SSSAAP conference. I offer my
thanks and appreciation to DeAnna and to a long list of others who have helped me to make this
35th Conference a reality. Special appreciation goes to my co-chair, Bill Hefley who has been
my first line of support in administrative decision-making situations, evaluation of the technical
content of the conference and providing reality checks in times of need. Special appreciation
also goes to Antoinette Chartier of Hospitality Management Services who has been involved in
the organization of the SSSAAP conferences for many years in the capacity of identifying,
negotiating, contracting and coordination with conference venues such as The Westward Look.
Other key people include all of the session chairs as well as the presenters; SES officers that are
always available to advise (or at least offer their opinions) on a variety of matters; our sponsors
of ad hoc events and contests; and a number of individuals and past chairs who offer their time
and experience year after year to make the conference a success. I refuse to attempt to offer an
extensive list of names because I know I will omit someone that deserves acknowledgement. So,
consciously, I omit you all, even as I thank and acknowledge you all.

Tucson is a much different venue than we are familiar with for the conference. I have visited
here often and find it to be full of diverse culture, art, history and unique flavor. There are many
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March 20 to 25, 2011

attractions including art and cultural museums, hiking trails, mountain biking and road cycling,
excellent golf courses, the Biospheres and a historic downtown.

But mostly, I am hoping that we all have another successful, professionally educational,
stimulating and at times, no doubt, controversial gathering. Everyone is encouraged to
participate in technical and policy related discussions (please, in a civil and respectful manner)
both on and off the session floor.

Again, welcome, and as always, be safe.

Larry Cottone
Conference Chair

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