WEDNESDAY 18TH MAY
09:15 SESSION 1 – UNEP AND COAL PARTNERSHIP UPDATE Chair – Lesley Sloss
09:15-09:30 Update on the UNEP Mercury Programme
Gunnar Futsaeter, UNEP Chemicals, Geneva
09:30-10:00 Update on UNEP’s POG/IPOG tool for determining mercury control strategy from coal-fired power plants
Wojciech Jozewicz, Arcadis, USA and Steve Niksa, Niksa Associates, USA
10:00-10:30 Global Perspectives on managing mercury emissions
Jozef Pacyna, NILU, Norway
11:00 SESSION 2 – NATIONAL INVENTORIES
Chair – Jozef Pacyna
11:00-11:30 EPA’s Mercury Toolkit for International Coal-Fired Utility Emissions Characterizations
Jeff Ryan, US EPA, USA
11:30-12:00 Emission testing at two South African power stations using the US EPA’s emission toolkit
Greg Scott, DEA, South Africa
12:00-12:30 Mercury inventory by measurement and tool kit – ongoing and future works in the Republic of Korea
Yong-chil Seo, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
SESSION 3 – MERCURY LEGISLATION AND ACTION PLANS Chair – Connie Senior
13:30-14:00 Characteristics of Polish coking coals considering future regulations for mercury emission
Janusz Golas, AGH University of Science and Technology , Poland
14:00-14:30 MACT regulations in the USA
Jeff Ryan, US EPA, USA
14:30-14:45 US EPA’s Air Toxics Standards (Status 2011) (provided AFTER the meeting)
Bernhard Vosteen, Vosteen Consulting, Germany
14:45-15:50 Discussion on the US EPA MACT
SESSION 4 – MERCURY IN SOUTH AFRICAN COALS Chair – Greg Scott
15:30-16:00 Summary of USGS coal quality data for mercury and chlorine in South African coal
Allan Kolker, USGS, USA
16:00-16:30 Speciation of mercury in South African coals
Julien Makiese, Wits University, South Africa
16:30-17:00 Methods of spectroscopic determination of metals, including mercury, in South African coals
Nikolay Panichev, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Thursday 19th May
05:15-08:30 EARLY MORNING GAME DRIVE SESSION 5 – MERCURY MEASUREMENT Chair – John Pavlish 11:00-11:30 Development of mercury monitoring toolkit in Japan
Hiroshi Moritomi, Gifu University, Japan
11:30-12:00 Low cost continuous mercury speciating method for ambient air and point source emissions
Joseph Siperstein, Ohio Lumex, USA
12:00-12:30 Ambient mercury monitoring in South Africa
Kgaugelo Chiloane, Eskom, South Africa
SESSION 6 – MERCURY BEHAVIOUR IN COAL-FIRED PLANTS Chair – Peter Nelson
13:30-14:00 Behaviour of mercury in coal-fired boilers and air pollution control devices: a review of recent full-scale data in the US
Connie Senior, ADA ES, USA
14:00-14:30 Control of mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants and the potential for increased black carbon emissions
Herek Clack, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
14:30-15:00 Interpreting the re-emission of elemental mercury during wet FGD scrubbing
Stephen Niksa, Niksa Associates, USA
15:00-15:30 Questions, answers and discussion
FRIDAY 20TH MAY
09:00 SESSION 7 – ENHANCED MERCURY CONTROL Chair – Wojciech Jozewicz
09:00-09:30 Enhancing Mercury Capture to Meet Global Mercury Reductions with Sorbent Enhancement Additives
John Pavlish, EERC, USA
09:30-10:00 Mercury sorbents that allow continued use of fly ash in concrete
Florian Kohl, Albermarle, USA
10:00-10:30 Bromine injection technology demonstrations at Plant Miller for removing vapor phase mercury
M Berry, B W Vosteen, Corey Tyree, Southern Company, USA
11:00 Session 7 – continued Chair – Herek Clack
11:00-11:30 Predicting the multipollutant performance of full-scale SCR systems with bromine addition
Steve Niksa, Niksa Associates, USA
11:30-12:00 Behaviour of various alloys in a steam boiler at the Ramat Hovav facility using fuel oil spiked with bromide and chloride
Mira Frieberg, ICL-IP, Israel
12:00-12:30 Effect of pre-combustion bromide addition on mercury emissions from a full-scale bituminous coal unit equipped with co-benefit controls
Corey Tyree and Bernard Vosteen
12:30 CLOSE OF MEETING
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