Part and Parcel to Any Meaningful Mercury Emissions Reduction Legislation Is Defensible Measurement - Enter The CAMR SuperGroup

As we follow the path of mercury legislation around the country and the globe we hear about reductions of 80% or 90% and forget to give the topic of measurement much thought. How can you determine if 90% reductions are being acheived if you don't have believable means to measure mercury emissions.

Whether we follow the Federal CAMR or any of the State laws mandating mercury reductions plant owners / operators, and regulators need to know if compliance is being met. We need to have monitoring capabilities to meet this challenge and the CAMR SuperGroup is dedicated to meeting this challenge.

There are several companies working on measurement solutions and they all benefit from this open forum of regulators, plant operators, testing companies and other instrument manufacturers. Measuring Hg emissions is not a slam-dunk. There are issues of detection limits, calibration, Relative Accuracy, lost data procedures, total vs. elemental and a whole myriad other details that need to be settled.

Next week in Atlanta is the third gathering of the CAMR SuperGroup and the agenda is full of topical discussions on these and other issues. I may attend this conference, if I can get clearance from the tower, but if I cannot I will certainly report on what goes on, as I will have Hg-ATME operatives there (someone else from my company is already attending).

One more thing, on the SuperGroup's site there is a list of past topics (from previous gatherings) and the powerpoints that went with them in pdf form. You can catch up on what's hot that way. They were also nice enough to link back to Hg-ATME, thanks.