Two Key Products Showcased at ICMGP

Enviro Technology Services (UK) is at this year’s ICMGP to showcase two mercury monitors. They've noticed a surge in interest in both ambient and industrial mercury monitoring. This comes on the back of the successful negotiation earlier this year of a new global treaty on mercury. The Minamata Convention (binding governments in over 140 countries to actively prevent mercury emissions and releases) was signed in January 2013.

“The recent treaty commitment, coupled with both the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and the interest in mercury monitoring from organisations such as WHO: these are all indicators that mean customers are looking to ensure best practice in their mercury monitoring,” says ET’s Joint MD, Duncan Mounsor.

ET will be in Edinburgh in July showcasing two key products. Tekran was widely considered to have set the standard for ambient mercury measurement when it launched its 2537 in 1993. Duncan says: “The best has got better with the 2437X. Features of the upgraded model include full-colour touch-screen operation, reduced height, and improved data and instrument parameter logging.”

Traditionally, extractive CEMs have struggled to provide accurate total gaseous mercury measurements due to issue surrounding chemical reactions and contamination in the sampling system. ET is now supplying the MCERTS-certified Opsis DOAS Total Gaseous Mercury system, a non-contact monitoring solution that measures mercury vapour using an optical path. The system, which recently received TÜV approval for measuring total gaseous mercury, can also measure all gases listed in the new IED. 

The mercury monitor is a new addition to the Opsis DOAS range that ET has been supplying in the UK since 1996. With more than 100 CEM systems sold in the UK, and thousands more worldwide, the non-extractive cross-duct system is highly accurate and low maintenance.

“The industry leaders we’re talking to are increasingly aware of the need to future-proof their monitoring equipment and consider its lifetime value in light of future legislation,” Duncan concludes.