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Sammy O’Neal
Senior Technical Specialist
Sammy has over 30 years experience in the research and development field of the air pollution control technology community. He has participated in a large number of both laboratory and field projects related to the support of the coal-fired power industry. He has performed measurements and data analyses on a large variety of laboratory and field tests including particulate mass testing, particle size measurements, in-situ flyash resistivity, and many air-toxics species, including mercury. He has also participated in measurements of particle size and mass concentration in combustion stacks with scrubber technology. He has been responsible for test and equipment preparation, calibration of test equipment, actual measurements, data reduction, and assistance with reporting of results.
Sammy has been the technical lead of a team operating pilot scale combustion facilities in support of the power industry, including emission control technologies and clean coal technologies. He participated in the design, fabrication, and instrumentation of the facilities, including design and construction of the gas sampling and conditioning systems of the facilities. He was also responsible for programming of the distributed control systems required to operate the facilities and data acquisition from the test programs. He participated in test programs for the EPA, DOE, EPRI, as well as a large variety of commercial clients. His participation in these tests included test planning and preparations, a leading role in operations of the facilities, testing and testing supervision, and post-testing data reduction. Some of these programs included coal and coal and biomass blending studies, tests of novel pilot scale pollutant control devices, and specific pollutant reduction strategies. He has also designed and constructed specialized testing equipment for a variety of testing and monitoring applications, including mercury, and other trace flue gas components difficult to sample.
Sammy is currently participating in test programs for PCT at several sites, including the Mercury Research Center, located at Gulf Power’s Plant Crist. He has also been a participant in several FGD projects both full scale and pilot scale. He has been involved as a technical lead in several pilot scale FGD research projects on different FGD designs.
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