ABB White Paper - ABB Measurement & Analytics Monitoring Cement Plant Stack Emissions Using FTIR

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Monitoring cement plant stack emissions using FTIR

ABB FTIR CEMS analyzer successfully monitors cement plant stack emissions in extensive field study

Measurement made easy

ACF5000 FTIR Continuous Emission Monitoring Introduction System (CEMS)

A major U.S. cement manufacturing facility

completed a five-month field trial of the ABB

filter

ACF5000 hot/wet extractive FTIR Continuous

Coal bin

Emission Monitoring System (CEMS) in August 2015.

Coal mill

The trial primarily tested the system’s capabilities to satisfy EPA HCl emission monitoring

Measuring

requirements. Secondarily, it checked how well the

point

system monitored other regulated emission Raw mill

pollutants (SO2, NOx, CO, CO2) under relevant EPA Secondary firing

performance specifications and QA requirements

Primary firing

and examined the analyzer’s performance in

Rotary kiln

monitoring non-regulatory parameters of interest such as ammonia, formaldehyde, and methane.

Lastly, the tests included monitoring during different in-line raw mill operating conditions, which can contribute to significant variability in emissions. Figure 1 Layout of typical cement plant and measurement location