Smoke stacks are among the most frequent contributors of air pollution around factories and other similar businesses. If your company uses these stacks, you need to locate reputable stack testing companies, such as ours, to help you determine the amount of pollution you are contributing to the air and how you can reduce these levels. Stack testing is a critical aspect of ensuring the protection of the environment around your business, keeping the local environment and the people who live nearby safe and healthy.
Stack Emissions Monitoring is routinely undertaken for many different reasons. Most commonly Stack Emissions Monitoring is undertaken to demonstrate compliance against limits outlined for permitted processes.
To ensure quality, we are now accredited for Isokinetic Stack/ Chimney sampling. Trained and certified technicians have the ability and skill to carry out sampling of gasses from chimneys and stacks of different sources including from boilers, fume hoods, exhaust, paint shops, power generators, etc.
The needs for Stack Emissions Testing are changing, quickly and drastically. Industries from non-metallic mineral processors to synthetic organic chemical manufacturers and from clean fuel boilers to hazardous waste incinerators are experiencing new or revamped environmental regulations. "Criteria pollutants" are no longer the primary environmental concern. Now, industries are also concerned with hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), maximum achievable control technologies (MACT), Title V, metals, dioxin, speciated organics and a population that is much more aware of air quality. As environmental regulations outpace method development and technology, sampling expertise and regulatory knowledge are paramount to a successful testing program.
Gas Phase FTIR for volatile organics and inorganics
Point sources are discrete, stationary, identifiable sources of emissions that release pollutants to the atmosphere. They are typically located in manufacturing or production plants. Within a given point source, there may be several individual ‘emission points’ that comprise the point source.
Point sources are characterized by the release of air pollutants typically associated with the combustion of fossil fuels, such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), and particulate matter (PM), as well as other air pollutants including certain volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and metals that may also be associated with a wide range of industrial activities.
Emissions from point sources should be avoided and controlled according to good international industry practice (GIIP) applicable to the relevant industry sector, depending on ambient conditions, through the combined application of process modifications and emissions controls
