Got Mercury?

Frontier GeoSciences is the foremost expert on mercury sampling and analysis at coal fired utilities. Since 1991, we have been pioneering the analytical world with reliable, accurate, and cost effective solutions for mercury measurements at coal fired utilities.

Did you know that we have developed and offer the following services for mercury monitoring at coal fired utilities?

Sorbent trap mercury emission monitoring by EPA methods Appendix K and 30B.

Frontier with the critical support of EPRI, was the architect of the mercury sorbent trap analytical and field sampling method over 16 years ago which eventually became EPA Methods Appendix K and 30B. As such, we are the foremost expert on sorbent trap sampling and analysis.

Sorbent tubes for mercury emission monitoring.

We have been manufacturing our sorbent traps for the past 16 years. Our sorbent traps have been applied, tested, and validated more than any other sorbent trap available today. Some of the benefits of using our sorbent traps are:

Extremely low mercury blank level (typically less than 0.25 ng/trap) allows for accurate quantification at even the lowest emission source.
Extremely high mercury sorption capacity (proven at 800,000 ng/trap) allows for accurate quantification at high emission sources our long term sampling needs.
Proven robustness in high acid or moisture stacks. Reliability in even the most extreme environments.
Essentially little to no breakthrough of Hg.
NIST traceable and quality control tested spiked sorbent traps.
Each trap is identified with a unique chain of custody tracking number.
Provided with end plugs to protect the trap and leak check.

Fluegas Adsorption Mercury Speciation (FAMS™) Method

Frontier GeoSciences’ Flue-gas Adsorbent Mercury Speciation (FAMS™) method utilizes a specially designed multiple-stage dry sorbent trap to selectively capture and measure particulate mercury (Hgp), gaseous oxidized mercury (Hg2+), and gaseous elemental mercury (Hg0) from emissions in flue gas streams. With over 8 years of comparison data with the Ontario Hydro method, the FAMS technique is a faster, more reliable, and cost effective alternative. Typical application of the FAMS method is to provide insight into operation and validity of continuous mercury monitoring equipment and/or the direct measurement of mercury species in order to determine the best control strategy or efficiency of current control technologies.

Flue Gas Emission Monitoring Solutions. Read about developed techniques that we offer to support mercury emission monitoring and control at coal fired utilities.