Emissions Monitoring

Protea carries out high quality MCERTS accredited monitoring of gas emissions from all types of manufacturing processes in all areas of the UK, Ireland and by special request internationally. Our customers are all covered by various regulations including:

• Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC)
• Solvent Emissions Directive (SED)
• Waste Incineration Directive (WID)
• Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD)

Our MCERTS accredited site teams are vastly experienced in all aspects of monitoring, however Protea specialises in the analytes listed below:

Common Target Analytes - If you require components not listed below – please contact us, we can probably help!

• Amines total or speciated
• Ammonia (NH₃)
• Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)
• Carbon Monoxide (CO)
• Formaldehyde (CH₂O)
• Hydrogen Chloride (HCl)
• Hydrogen Fluoride (HF)
• Moisture (H₂O)
• Oxides of Nitrogen (NO, NO₂, N₂O, NOx)
• Oxides of Sulphur (SO₂, SOx)
• Oxygen (O₂)
• Sulphur total (S)
• VOCs total
• VOCs speciated - a few egs of commonly measured
• Acetic Acid (C₂H₄O₂)
• Acetone (C₃H₆O)
• Carbon Tetrachloride (CCl₄)
• Chloroform (CHCl₃)
• Cyclohexane (C₆H₁₂)
• Dimethylformamide (C₃H₇NO)
• Ethanol (C₂H₆O)
• Ethyl Acetate (C₄H₈O₂)
• Ethyl Acrylate (C₅H₈O₂)
• Heptane (C₇H₁₆)
• Methanol (CH₄O)
• Methylene Chloride (CH₂Cl₂)
• MIBK (C₆H₁₂O)
• MTBE (C₅H₁₂O)
• n-Butanol (C₄H₁₀O)
• Propanol (C₃H₈O)
• Propylene Oxide (C₃H₆O)
• Pyridine (C₅H₅N)
• THF (C₄H₈O)
• Toluene (C₇H₈)
• Particulates
• PM10s, PM2.5s

Protea has over 10 years experience in producing results and reports for submission to regulatory authorities, including Environment Agency (EA), Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or Local Authority (LA).

We know that our customers want a simple no-fuss solution to their compliance ‘problem’, that’s why we are flexible in our partnership arrangements, offering many ways of working:

• Ad-hoc - simply call us as and when you need monitoring
• Predictive - Annual contracts - Using the same teams throughout the year to ensure a good working relationship
• Fully Managed/Permanent - Protea will fully manage your emissions monitoring program either through a permanent/semi permanent site presence, we can even liaise with your authorities on your behalf.

As you would expect there are significant cost savings to be had with increasingly predictive or permanent contracts but also significant time and hassle is spared too.

See also Abatement Performance Testing, Site Emissions Surveys, Batch Profiling, VOC Characterisation, Odour Assessment.