Sensors & Electronics
Awards & Recgonition
R&D 100 Awards
1998 - R-TiC Metals Emission Monitor
Developers: David A. Lamar (joint entry with Paul P. Woskov, Paul Thomas, and Kamal Hadidi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The R-TiC Metals Emission Monitor provides continuous monitoring of hazardous metal emissions from incinerators, plasma furnaces and thermal processes used in manufacturing and fossil fuel electric power plants. The monitor utilizes a microwave plasma sustained by a source for atomic-emission-spectroscopy, and can be installed directly on an emissions stack. The monitor is accurate, sensitive and provides information rapidly. It can be used to monitor compliance with environmental regulations and identify problems in thermal processes that could result in metals air pollution.
Excerpted from PNNL R&D 100 webpage.