Mercury and utility multi-pollutant control. (Casebook).(Southern Co., Alabama Power use Compact Hybrid Particulate Collector technology)

Pollution Engineering, April, 2002 by Miller, Richard; Monroe, Larry

Southern Company is one of the largest producers of electricity in the U.S. It is the parent firm of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Mississippi Power, Gulf Power, Savannah Electric, Southern Nuclear, and Southern Company Generation and Energy Marketing. The company has a long-standing commitment to seek ways to produce more environmentally efficient energy. Since 1990, Southern has invested more than $500 million in environmental controls and more than $360 million in environmental research and development.

There are important benefits to a combination of technologies in multi-pollutant control. A recent series of short-term Hg remediation tests at Alabama Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, further demonstrates the importance of the COHPAC (Compact Hybrid...

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