Continuous emission monitoring system and its compliance with federal clean air act amendments
- Detroit Edison (US)
The CEM System, utilizing a microprocessor based Data Acquisition System (DAS), stores emission data and generates reports which comply with EPA's emission data reporting requirements. Detroit Edison has nine fossil-fueled power plants and is planning to install twenty CEM systems, one per each stack. The company is presently in the process of installing tow such system sat Monroe Power Plant. This paper describes these two CEM systems. To maximize the reliability and the availability of the emission data reporting in the two CEM systems at Monroe Power Plant, each data acquisition system is designed and installed to serve as a backup unit for the other. The United State (US) Congress empowered the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enact the Acid Rain Program as stated in Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990. The objective of this program is to monitor, control and thereby reduce the sulphur dioxide (SO{sub 2}) and nitrogen oxide (NO{sub x}) emissions which contribute to the causes of acid rain.
- OSTI ID:
- 7303728
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-920432-; CODEN: PAPWA
- Journal Information:
- Proceedings of the American Power Conference; (United States), Vol. 54:1; Conference: 54. annual American power conference, Chicago, IL (United States), 13-15 Apr 1992; ISSN 0097-2126
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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