The invention discloses a portable mercury content detection device, and relates to the field of mercury content detection. The portable mercury content detection device comprises a
detector and a pretreatment unit arranged on one side of the
detector, the
detector detects the mercury content by measuring the
light intensity weakening degree through a cold atomic absorption spectrometry, the pretreatment unit comprises a
drying assembly and a flow rate adjusting
assembly, and the
drying assembly can adjust the content of a
drying agent according to the
humidity of mercury gas; the flow rate adjusting assembly adjusts the mercury steam flow rate according to the drying agent content. According to the portable mercury content detection device, by arranging the drying assembly, the number of
drying agents can be adjusted according to the
humidity of mercury steam, so that
water vapor in the mercury steam can be effectively removed, and the influence of
humidity on a detection result is avoided. Meanwhile, the flow speed adjusting assembly can correspondingly adjust the flow speed of mercury steam according to the number of the
drying agents,
dilution of the mercury steam is reduced, it is guaranteed that the sensitivity of the detector to the mercury steam is stable, and the detection accuracy is further improved.