Information Collection Request
CONSOL R&D Provides Sampling and Laboratory Services to Comply with Hazardous Air Pollutant ICR

Information Collection Request (ICR) Update

Information Request for National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Coal- and Oil-fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units

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On July 2, 2009, EPA proposed a new Information Collection Request (ICR) that would require 555 coal and oil-fired electric utility steam generating facilities (1,325 units) to identify and measure the concentrations of hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions. All the documents associated with this ICR are available in the EPA docket folder.

Comments on the ICR are due by August 31, 2009.  If the ICR is approved by the Office of Management and Budget, it will be published in the Federal Register and a survey will be issued to all facilities listed in the 2007 editions of the “Annual Electric Generator Report” and the “Power Plant Operations Report”.  EPA anticipates that the survey letter will be issued in late 2009 with a requirement for sampling to be completed within 6 months.

 

Proposed Utility Requirements

The proposed ICR requires:

1)   All utilities to complete an ICR survey within 60 days of the date the survey is issued.  The survey includes a questionnaire and submission of

         a).  the most recent twelve months of fuel analysis data and

         b). all emission data collected since January 1, 2004

2)   Utilities targeted in the ICR will be required to conduct additional emission sampling at a point that is representative of the atmospheric discharge of the tested unit.  These tests also require fuel sampling.

 

CONSOL R&D support for Complying with the ICR

CONSOL R&D can provide the sampling and analytical support required to comply with the ICR.  The capability to provide comprehensive sampling and analysis permits CONSOL R&D to provide better control of scheduling/deadlines, data quality, and customer satisfaction. However, sampling or analytical services are also available individually.

 

Experienced Emission Sampling

The CONSOL Energy source sampling team provides

  • Full service emission testing for all HAPs required by the ICR.  

  • Competitive pricing

  • Comprehensive reporting with rigorous quality control

  • The experience of over 150 full scale utility field tests for mercury and non-mercury metallic HAP emissions, speciation and abatement

  • Considerable experienced with Method 26A for acid gas HAPs

 

 Experienced Analytical Laboratory

The CONSOL Energy Inc. R&D laboratory offers

  • Competitive pricing and rigorous quality control  

  • Over 50 years experience characterizing fuels including coal, biomass and oil

  • Extensive experience with ASTM fuel methods; Leadership role on ASTM D29 Coal and Coke Committees for over 25 years.

  • Over 20 years experience characterizing mercury, metals and other emissions

  • State-of-the-art instrumentation for fuel analysis

  • ICP-MS analysis of Method 29 metals for lowest trace element detection limits

  • Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy analysis of Ontario Hydro and Method 30B samples for lowest mercury detection limit

  • Ion chromatographic analysis for Method 26 acid gas HAP samples

 

 For more information, please contact us at 412 854 6600 or at r&dinfo@consolenergy.com.

White papers are available in the following areas of HAP sampling, analysis, and control: 

 

Fuel Analysis

   Mercury

   Trace Elements

   Biomass    

Emission Measurements

  

      Mercury

      SO3

      Trace Elements

Emission Control

 

      Mercury

      SO3

      Trace Elements