OBJECTIVES
The objectives of this project are to determine under controlled bench-scale conditions if:
Capture of elemental and/or oxidized mercury in wet scrubber slurry is dependent upon
PH.
0 Laboratory-prepared slurries show the same results as commercial slurries which contain
antibacterial agents and other oxidizers.
Mercuric chloride is converted to elemental mercury in a wet scrubber solution in a
detectable, repeatable amount.
It is anticipated that data obtained from the bench-scale operation will limit sampling variability and
achieve good mass balance information by utilizing the entire gas flow for gas-phase mercury
samples and the entire slurry sample rather than slip- or split-stream samples from full-scale
sampling results which are often difficult to interpret because of large variability in operating
conditions.