Hot Topic on Friday, March 19 at 10 a.m. CDT is Cement MACT – Impacts and Solutions
The cement industry needs to know what the power industry is doing to develop MACT and the power industry definitely needs to know what EPA is doing to the cement industry. The MACT Rule for cement plants has been proposed and will be promulgated in June. Since HAP emissions from power plants are much greater than from cement plants, the utilities can expect at least equally stringent regulations.
This Hot Topic Hour will build on the very well attended webinar on the “Cement MACT” held on Feb. 12th. At that session we heard Andy O’Hare of the Portland Cement Association report on an industry analysis which shows that there will be more than 100 scrubbers, bag filters, and ACI systems required to meet the new regulations. There will also be substantial numbers of regenerative thermal oxidizers. He questions whether there are the engineering and construction resources to supply the more than $3 billion in equipment which will be needed. Yougen Kong of Solvay presented information on removal of HCl, SO2 and mercury in 12 cement plants in Europe. David Gossman of Gossman Consulting indicated that a circulating fluid bed absorber has been permitted for a cement plant but has not yet been built. Dennis Laudal of the Energy & Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota discussed the issues associated with the use of activated carbon for mercury control in cement kilns and Ron Hawks of Environmental Quality Management, Inc. discussed the impact of proposed MACT limits for mercury and possible solutions. The second in this series of webinars on the Cement MACT will be held on Friday, March 12th. Four speakers will add to the knowledge gained during the first session.
At this third session on March 19th, the following speakers will expand on these presentations and add additional new information on potential solutions for the cement industry:
Richard (Rich) A. Hovan, Manager Environmental Solutions at Rockwell Software, A Rockwell Automation Company, will discuss GHG reporting for the cement industries. Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act on December 26, 2007 authorizing the EPA to “develop and published a rule to require mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions above an appropriate threshold in all sectors of the US economy”. EPA interpreted that language to use its Clean Air Act (CAA) authority to develop and promulgate the Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule on September 22, 2009. Cement facilities, listed as an “All In” source, are subject to the GHG reporting rule and are required to provide GHG monitoring. The use of GHG CEMS is optional for some specific source categories not subject to other EPA programs. EPA is allowing sources to use a source category specific GHG calculation method. Monitoring is based upon other parameters and fuel use, which may vary given the specific source category (e.g. mass balance, site-specific emissions factor, or default emissions factor).
Craig Clapsaddle and Charles (Chuck) Arnold of MSI/Mechanical Systems, Inc. will discuss the technologies that are available for continuous monitoring of particulate emissions at cement kiln stacks. The presentation will include an overview of the available technologies and the advantages and disadvantages of each of the technologies. The U.S. EPA has a performance specification (PS-11) for selection, installation and certification of continuous particulate monitoring systems (CPMS) that has been in place since January 2004. This presentation will discuss what is required by PS-11 for CPMS.
Donald (Don) R. Hug, Vice President of Air Pollution Control, North America for AE&E - Von Roll, Inc., will provide an overview of the emissions requirements of the proposed Portland Cement MACT Rule and compare the potential air pollution control strategies available to the industry for compliance. The presentation will review some of AE&E’s recent experience in Europe and the emerging trends for emissions control compliance. AE&E Group, an international provider of environmental technologies for Industrial and Power Generation applications, possesses advanced technology expertise in the area flue gas cleaning including wet and dry scrubbing systems, de-NOx technologies, particulate control and multi-stage/multi-pollutant systems.
Scott Segal, Consultant to the Portland Cement Association
Jonathan (Jon) Barr, Vice-President Sales & Marketing, ADA Environmental Solutions
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