“Mercury Removal Talk” Part 3, begins with Gene Decker, spokesperson for Wyodak Plant of Black Hills Corporation, near Gillette
By By Black Hills Today.com staff writer - Kathy L. Swensen
“Mercury Removal Talk” Gene Decker, Part 3
The “Mercury Removal Talk” Part 3, begins with Gene Decker, spokesperson for Wyodak Plant of Black Hills Corporation, near Gillette, Wyoming, continued the power point with slides of the Mercury CEMS equipment and descriptions of function.
A. Baseline Conditions
B. Calcium Chlorides Solution Addition
C. PAC Addition
D. Solution + PAC
E. Long-Term Testing - Test Objective = > 98% Removal (APH:Stack)
WyGen II Mercury Removal Field Test
A. Baseline Conditions
B. Calcium Chlorides Solution Addition
C. PAC Addition
D. Solution + PAC
E. Long-Term Testing – Test Objective = > 98% Removal (APH:Stack)
PAC Hg Removal Rates – Testing has been going on for more than 2 years.
Hg Removal with PAC/CaC12
Hg Removal Extended Duration Testing Graph
Neil Simson & WyGen II Plants – near Gillette, Wyoming
There was a pause in the Power Point for the audience to ask Gene Decker questions. There was disclosure about other electrical coal burning power plants east and west of the Mississippi River, and how the tests have to be customized to the kind of coal being burned, and for what the residue of PAC (powder activated carbon) will be used for, for instance: in-home drinking water filters, calgon water softener, etc. has driven up the cost enough that the coal-burning electric power plants pay an enormous amount of money for PAC.
Decker suggested that a PAC company be built in the Gillette area, for cost savings to the power plants in the region and for additional consumer use, cost reduction. The more PAC was readily available, in the region it is used the most, the better everyone would be, in need of it in products containing PAC.
The last couple minutes of this Part 3 video segment addressed the purity of the ground water around the Wyodak Power plant, "Is Clean," said Decker in response to a pointed audience question. Decker also explained why the ground water is OK in our region. Decker also qualified that other older plants around the USA have to work really hard to make sure the ground water around them is really OK.
Click the below links for Video Part 4. And for Parts 1 & 2.
Click below for the Gene Decker interview with Campbell County Chamber of Commerce Investor Relations Manager, Christine Overton, after the “Mercury Removal Talk” at Gillette Library, Wyoming.
