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TECHNOLOGYPROFILE FilterSense Advertorial Particulate Monitoring System Provides Superior Control over Opacity F or decades and still to this day, opacity monitors have been the primary and often sole particulate monitoring device in the main stack of large combustion processes such as coal fired power plants, cement kilns, trash incinerators and many other heavy industry stacks. For these industries employing fabric filter baghouses for particulate matter control, multichannel probe based particulate monitoring systems from FilterSense are proven to provide vastly superior monitoring and control over particulate emissions than can be achieved with a stack opacity monitor. FilterSense probe-based particulate monitors are inherently far more sensitive than opacity monitors and thus can detect the low level baseline emissions that are common with modern fabric filters. Additionally by placing a sensor in each compartment of the fabric filter (which is not practical with an opacity monitor) even higher resolution emission analysis can be performed providing the ability to detect developing filter leaks and to locate filter leaks. The high resolution monitoring can also allow plant operators to ensure a proper filter cake has formed on the media and to more accurately plan and schedule filter media replacements. Combined with a software analysis package, the systems can help ensure that plants operate well within mass emission limits prior to an EPA compliance stack sample. Further benefits exist with processes that use dry absorbents to control mercury. Optimal filtration efficiency is needed in these processes to ensure mercury is not releases with particulate. A single opacity monitor in the main stack simply does not have the resolution or detection level to maintain the filter in peak performance nor to observer changes in particulate emissions that are a result of process changes. FilterSense’s probe based particulate monitoring systems uniquely combined an advanced induction-sensing method and a protected-probe to offer simple installation and low maintenance. The rugged modular design of FilterSense multichannel system allows for easy expansion and upgrades. A full range of communications options including Ethernet, Modbus, Devicenet and Profibus are available along with internal data logging via SD memory card and software analysis package. (978) 927-4304 info@filtersense.com www.filtersense.com We don't design baghouses We invent technologies and solutions to make them better. Analyze, Optimize and Comply that's what FilterSense products do for baghouses and cartridge lters, large or small. FilterSense has been innovating particulate monitoring and fabric lter emissions control solutions since 1993. Designed for Maintenance Reduction, Energy Savings and Process Control Improvements, FilterSense products deliver a fast return on investment and the best EPA Compliance solutions available. NEW "Predictive" Baghouse Maintenance • Baghouse Controllers • Particulate Monitors • Filter Leak Detectors • EPA Compliance Software FilterSense 40 PLE01094Filt.indd 1 Tel: (978) 927-4304 www.FilterSense.com Advanced Solutions for Process Filtration Pollution Engineering JANUARY2009 12/10/08 10:08:50 AM

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Pollution Engineering - January 2009 Contents The Editor’s Desk EnviroNews PE Events Legal Lookout Green Connections Ten Top Technologies for 2009 Old Fashioned Chemistry Emitting Education NGWA Reports from Its Annual Meeting A Wood and a Pond Company Technical Profiles Filtration/Membrane Products Flow and Level Monitoring Equipment Classified Marketplace Advertisers Index State Rules

Pollution Engineering - January 2009

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