Course description
Industrial Air Pollution Monitoring
This course focuses on general management issues, including legislation, compliance with authorisation conditions, quality assurance and control. You’ll gain perspectives from all sides – regulators, industrial emitters and contract source testing organisations. You’ll also look at measurement and analytical techniques. Gaseous and particulate emissions will be covered and both extractive sampling and in situ methods will be discussed. Towards the end of the course there will be a workshop on calculation methods, something which is relevant to everyone involved in emissions monitoring.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend?
This course is for you if you have an interest in industrial air pollution monitoring and will be particularly useful if you’re:
- an environmental manager
- an environmental consultant
- an Environment Agency/SEPA officer
- a control and instrumentation specialist
- a contract testing engineer
- a works chemist or engineer with responsibility for emissions
- an operator of plant subject to PPC/EPR authorisation.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
How will I benefit?
Whether you’re new to the field or looking to update your knowledge, you’ll gain a broad overview of industrial air pollution monitoring. You’ll have the opportunity to meet equipment and services providers.
If you’re a stack tester requiring personal certification under the Environment Agency's MCERTS scheme, the sessions on Day One are particularly relevant to MCERTS level 2 (team leaders). Day Two is particularly relevant to MCERTS Technical Endorsements 1 (particles), 2 (trace species) and 3 (manual methods for gases). Sessions on Day Three are particularly relevant to MCERTS Technical Endorsement 4 (instrumental methods for gases).
Training Course Content
Day One: Management of emissions monitoring
- Emissions monitoring under the Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR)
- Management of contract emissions testing
- The Environment Agency’s Monitoring Certification Scheme
- Safety management for emission monitoring – the importance of risk assessment
- The quality assurance of Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems to EN14181
- Power industry regulation and emissions monitoring
- The Operator Monitoring Assessment Scheme (OMA)
- The monitoring of ERF emissions
- Monitoring activities at a chemical manufacturing site.
Day Two: Manual and instrumental methods for particles and gases
- Measurement of particulate emissions by extractive sampling
- Stack flow rate measurement to EN ISO 16911
- Odour sampling and analysis
- Sampling and analysis of trace species
- Periodic sampling methods for gases
- Understanding instrument performance standards
- Converting emissions to reference conditions
- Calculations of uncertainties in stack monitoring
Day 3: Instrumental methods of particle and gas analysis
- Calibration of gaseous emission measuring systems
- Design of sampling systems for emissions monitoring
- Optical analysers for extractive gas analysis systems
- Abatement systems and emission reduction
- Design and application of FTIR to monitoring pollutants
- Data Acquisition and Reporting - Principles and Practice
- Selection of analytical techniques - a case study
- Continuous particulate monitoring technologies
Expenses
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