General Electric Company

William Steven Lanier

Vitali Victor Lissianski

William Randall Seeker

Peter Martin Maly

Vladimir Zamansky

Charles Michael Booth

Glenn Charles England

Frederic F Ahlgren

Theodore Paul Kircher

A method for monitoring and/or controlling performance of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emission control system includes injecting a quantity of a pollution neutralizing gas into a combustion gas stream containing a pollutant gas. The method also includes passing the stream over a catalyst bed to facilitate a reaction of the pollution neutralizing gas with the pollutant gas to produce an effluent and measuring a ratio of the pollution neutralizing gas to the pollutant gas in the effluent.

Method and apparatus for measuring and controlling selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emission control systems

A method of determining bias in a measurement of a constituent concentration level in a sample gas is provided. The method comprises establishing a sample gas flow from an emission stream into a sample gas line of an emissions monitoring system. The method further comprises removing water from the sample gas flow and cooling the sample gas flow to a temperature below about 41&#xb0; F. to produce a cooled, dried sample gas flow. The constituent concentration level is then determined for the cooled, dried sample gas flow. The method further comprises introducing a span gas having a known span gas constituent concentration level into the sample gas flow to form a combined sample and span gas flow, the span gas being introduced at a desired span gas flow rate. The method still further comprises removing water from the combined sample and span gas and cooling the combined sample and span gas to a temperature below about 41&#xb0; F. to produce a cooled, dried, combined sample and span gas flow. A combined sample and span gas constituent concentration level is then determined for the cooled, dried, combined sample and span gas flow. The method also comprises determining a measurement bias using the known span gas constituent concentration level, the sample gas constituent concentration level and the combined sample and span gas constituent concentration level.

Method of determining measurement bias in an emissions monitoring system

A method and system for determining a concentration level of NOin an exhaust stream from a combustion source. The method comprises capturing sample gas from the exhaust stream using a sampling device. NOin the sample gas is converted to NO by passing the sample gas through a catalytic NOconverter. The method also comprises removing water from the sample gas by passing the sample gas through a dryer and determining a sample gas NO concentration level. The step of converting NOis performed at a temperature above the dew point temperature of the sample gas.

Method and system for monitoring combustion source emissions

In a method to decrease emission of mercury, a factor is selected to control a combustion process to generate a flue gas comprising fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon; the combustion process is controlled according to a factor selected from reburning fuel, flue gas temperature, OFA injection, coal particle size, LNB flow, LNB design, combustion zone air, stoichiometric ratio of fuel, fuel/air mixing in a primary combustion zone and fuel/air mixing in a secondary combustion zone to produce the flue gas comprising fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon and to vaporize mercury; and the flue gas is allowed to cool to collect fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon with absorbed mercury. A system to decrease emission of mercury; comprises a combustion zone that is controlled to generate a flue gas comprising fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon and that produces vaporized mercury; and a post combustion zone to cool the flue gas to collect fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon with absorbed mercury.

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William Steven Lanier