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| Introduction to major pollutants |
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Units and reference conditions |
The properties of each principle pollutant is detailed as follows:
- Typical sources
- Typical emission concentrations
- Environmental and health effects of air pollution
The following pollutants are included: CO, CO2, O2,SOX, NOX, HCl, TOC, particulate matter, dioxins, PCBs and PAHs.
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- Temperature, pressure, velocity, mass and volume
- Concentration and mass-based units - ppm and mg/m3
- Reference conditions and normalisation
- wet gas and dry gas
- standard temperature and pressure
- reference levels of O2
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| Overview of legislation and monitoring guidance |
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Operation of equipment |
- Purpose of monitoring, an overview of legislation on emissions to air
- IPC, PPC, European directives and the MCERTS scheme
- The nature and use of emissions limits
- Monitoring requirements - standard reference methods
- MCERTS method implementation documents (MIDs)
- Role of Environment Agency guidance notes M1 and M2
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How to correctly operate measurement equipment and understand common faults and their effects. This includes:
- Instrument theory (flow measurement theory of pitots, dry gas meters, rotameters)
- Differential pressure devices - temperature measurement using thermocouple and other devices - operation of pressure measurement devices
- Knowledge of equipment, handling of equipment and handling of instruments
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| Health and safety requirements |
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Introduction to extractive manual sampling |
Introduction to STA publication Risk assessment guide: Industrial emission monitoring, which includes:
- Hazards to sampling personnel, hazards to other personnel and hazards to plant
- Sampling facilities and working platforms
- Safety control measures
- Site requirements and inductions and the need for COSHH assessments
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Introduction to the equipment used for sampling particulates and/or gases/vapours. This includes principle of operation, arrangement of the sample train and preparation of sampling equipment including leak test. |
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Principles of manual stack-emission monitoring |
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- The importance of representative sampling
- IPC, PPC, European directives and the MCERTS scheme
- Characteristics of particulates
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