To provide a highly reliable apparatus for measuring mercury contained in
the gaseous medium, in which the outlet port 3b of the reducing tube and
the gas-liquid separator, both susceptible to deposition of stain, can be
automatically cleaned to avoid reduction of the sensitivity of the
measuring instrument, the apparatus for measuring mercury contained in
the gaseous medium includes a reducing tube 3 for reducing divalent
mercury contained in a gaseous medium to zerovalent mercury, a gas-liquid
separator 4 for removing a liquid component (drain) from the gaseous
medium that has passed through the reducing tube 3, a measuring
instrument 6 for measuring the quantity of the mercury contained in the
gaseous medium delivered from the gas-liquid separator 4, and a cleaning
system 10 for running a cleaning liquid from an outlet port of the
reducing tube 3 past the gas-liquid separator 4 to emerge outwardly of
the gas-liquid separator 4.