Finding the Right Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems




Pollution problems have been with us for literally hundreds of years. Ever since we started burning fuel in cities to keep warm, we've been dealing with the issues. Newer technology has provided us with a whole lot of new options to control it, at the same time it has helped create new and more varied sources. Continuous emissions monitoring is the high tech answer to today's complex sources of pollution, but it's a history as old as the industrial revolution. Read this blog for some additional information regarding the subject.

A Little Informative History

Once described as "hell with the lid taken off," by writer James Parton, due to the air quality, Pittsburgh, PA, established itself, eventually, as America's most livable city. But the decades it took to get there were tough, fraught with controversy, and deadly to a large part of the population. The same situation happened in other cities in the US, notably Chicago, St. Louis, and New York. The predecessor to all of this was the United Kingdom, especially in Manchester and London, where the pollution was often bad enough to force royalty and the wealthy to flee to the countryside. Both sides of the Atlantic, and elsewhere, experience major, deadly pollution events.

Current Circumstances

Fast forward sixty or so years and the US is now dealing with a whole new set of parameters. Fortunately, we are monitoring complex emissions using sophisticated equipment in order to keep our workforce safe and abide by rigid standards, usually set by governments and the EPA. We know why we need to keep emissions low, we know how to do it, and we know how to measure it. A continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS) is the technology that will be deployed.

Solutions

We provide several different solutions that include:
  • Dilution extractive CEMS - a custom-built system extracts a gas sample to mix with air for analysis
  • Fully extractive CEMS - a system that extracts samples for analysis without mixing them
  • Refinery CEMS - a complete set of refinery specific products 
  • Monitoring of EPA control standards for boilers and utilities
  • Monitoring for ambient air, gas emissions, and mercury; specialty lasers for specific analysis applications; and the information technology systems to support and report all of this data.
Few, if any, of these applications are plug and play, so we would encourage dialogue to get the right continuous emissions monitoring application specific to your requirements.

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