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News Release from: Casella Stanger | Subject: Emissions reduction
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 07 April 2000
Direct, real-time measurement of
emissions
Stanger Science and Environment is helping some of the UK's leading industrial companies to improve their energy efficiency and to reduce their emissions to the atmosphere.
Stanger Science and Environment is helping some of the UK's leading industrial companies to improve their energy efficiency and to reduce their emissions to the atmosphere ahead of the proposed new climate change legislation The company's new high-tech mobile 'laboratory' fitted with £100,000 worth of the latest automatic and manual analysis equipment , has proved its value testing new power plants for British Sugar in East Anglia
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 10 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The mobile 'laboratory' was based at British Sugar's factories in Bury St Edmunds and Wissington, near Kings Lynn, over a period of weeks while each of the £30 million combined heat and power installations were being commissioned.
Working seven days a week during the round-the-clock sugar production process, Stanger's team monitored the exhaust from the 50MW gas turbine generators and checked emissions from the waste heat boiler which raises steam for use in the production processes.
Using the latest microprocessor-controlled direct reading gas analysis equipment, which is calibrated on site using certified reference gases, measurement results were electronically logged and provided immediately to the client in both electronic and hard-copy format.
Bill Bell, who runs Stanger's Wolverhampton-based air quality consultancy, explained that the team, engaged by the power plant installers ABB Alstom Power, had to continuously monitor emissions to ensure that the new plants met their design specifications and legal requirements.
"We had to monitor and measure the emissions coming from the waste heat boiler and provide the installation engineers on site with the information so they could make the appropriate adjustments to the new plant in order to maximise its fuel efficiency, and minimise its emissions," he added.
The purpose-built mobile unit, which operates around the country, provides for a considerable reduction of time, particularly in setting-up, as previously all the sampling and analysis equipment had to be unpacked and repacked manually daily.
Mr Bell added that with the most modern monitoring equipment available, Stanger has also used the mobile laboratory for the commissioning of solvent emission abatement plant.
"The need for monitoring has increased significantly as a result of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
Quality assurance is essential.
Evidence of compliance with the legislation hinges on the quality of the monitoring data.".
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