The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated the EERC as the
Center for Air Toxic Metals® (CATM®).
EERC atmospheric emission control research has led to the revamping of numerous acid gas and particulate
removal technologies for existing energy facilities. It also is providing understanding critical to the
design of the next generation of equipment needed to control particulate as well as gaseous organic and
inorganic emissions from utilities, incinerators, refineries, and other industrial sources. By-products
produced by power plant emission control systems are a resource that can be used for a variety of purposes.
The EERC has extensive experience in the utilization of these by-products.
Atmospheric Emission Control Activities
- Air toxics
- Fine particulate matter
- Flue gas conditioning for enhanced particulate control
- Fine particulate control
- Hot-gas cleaning
- Acid gas emission control
- Fuel and sorbent characterization
- Repowering
- Advanced power systems
- Waste utilization and disposal
- Fuel conditioning
- Sampling and analytical methods development