Element offers a complete range of stack emissions testing, environmental inspection, and consultancy services to help organizations achieve total regulatory compliance for industrial installations.

Operators producing emissions to air from stacks and other source releases are required to comply with Emissions Limit Values (ELVs) and Quality Assurance of CEMS as specified in their regulatory monitoring requirements, such as EU Industrial Emissions (IED) & Medium Combustion Plant (MCP) Directives, US Clean Air Act, Permit & License monitoring requirements.

 

MCERTS stack emissions testing and monitoring 

Element are the largest ISO 17025 UKAS-MCERTS accredited organization in the UK, Ireland and The Netherlands operating from 11 regional across offices with over 50 teams.

Key Features of our class-leading emissions service include: 

  • People - Largest pool of MCERTS certified emissions experts in the UK (Level II with all 4 Technical Endorsements). 
  • Geographic Coverage - Engineers based across 10 regional offices to quicken operations, maintain competitive rates and provide value for money. 
  • Accreditation - Largest scope of UKAS Accredited Tests in the UK covering all the main parameters but also other, less common, compounds including Chrome VI, Isocyanates, Siloxanes, Bioaerosols, Speciated VOCs such as Phenols and Cresols, Sulphuric Acid Mist, Odour, HCN, H2S along with other trace and bulk gas components.  
  • Centre of Technical Excellence – Each year we conduct over 300 EN 14181 CEMS QAL2 and AST campaigns and all this knowledge, practical experience and best practice is focused in our new hub with the aim of delivering the best possible advice and trusted solutions for CEMS Quality Assurance and Verifications.
  • Calibration Workshop – We maintain, calibrate and performance check all of our sampling equipment ourselves. For example, over 60 FIDs, over 60 Horiba Combustion Gas Analysers, and around 70 Manual Isokinetic Sampling Systems. This gives us a greater understanding of how the equipment works leading to more accurate and repeatable emissions data. 
  • In-House Analysis of Samples by Element laboratories – Some stack emissions testing requires extractive.
  • e-Mission Digitial Portal to manage all aspects of your emissions requirements through an on-line system designed by Element. 

We provide independent, accredited stack emissions testing, which is essential for all organizations that wish to meet their regulatory compliance responsibilities.

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Maritime Emissions Monitoring

Maritime Emissions Monitoring 

International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations have been tightened in recent years to limit air emissions from ships and other maritime vessels. Maritime air pollution control is now much more closely aligned with shore-based power plants and industrial sites.

Our ISO 17025 UKAS-MCERTS accredited emissions testing methods monitor maritime emissions highlighted in the MARPOL Annex VI Regulations, aimed at controlling pollutants such as NOx, SOx and CO2. 

Element work in collaboration with marine fuel additive companies to provide the sector with independently verified reductions in carbon emissions and fuel consumption. We have a proven track record of successfully delivering maritime projects, and our experience of testing on ships and vessels allows us to provide the accurate advice you need. 

Air Quality Testing

Odour Monitoring

Many facilities are required to operate under an Odour Management Plan (OMP) as part of their Environmental Permitting Regulations and to prove Compliance. Other processes may just require an assessment of the performance of odour control units or to investigate an odour complaint.

Odour pollution can be complicated to assess and measure as often several substances are involved and multiple factors in play including the concentration, intensity and site specific / time dependent factors. 

For Point Sources (Stacks) Odour is measured to the European Odour Standard EN 13725:2003 for which Element are UKAS Accredited. This determines the odour concentration by dynamic olfactometry, where odour is assessed from the point of view of perceptibility to human olfactory sense. 

We can collect samples using a non-reactive material and a sampling technique that prevents potential sources of contamination. The sample is rapidly assessed by an odour panel within 30 hours of sampling. Results are then calculated in the form of European odour units, and assessment of the hedonic tone, if necessary. 

 

Audit training 

In addition to stack emissions testing and compliance services, Element also offers audit training e.g. Operator Monitoring Assessment (OMA) to prepare for an Environment Agency audit visit. Audit training can help ensure your audit will be carried out effectively and efficiently, resulting in an accurate representation of the standard of self-monitoring. 

The Element advantage 

We conduct more EN 14181 QAL2 and ASTs than anyone else in the UK. Our newly formed Centre of Technical Excellence acts as a hub to share best practice and knowledge from our vast experience conducting tests with the full spectrum of different types of CEM. 

With this complex, technical emissions testing trust our Element experts and the number one provider of this service. 

We have specialized in-house training programmes targeted at excellence in the details, intricacies and methods A, B & C for deriving calibration functions for EN 14181.

Our goal is to help you achieve regulatory compliance, meet your environmental goals, and support reduced emissions to improve Air Quality.

For more information about our stack emissions testing, or to know more about our MCERTS accredited stack emissions testing services, contact us today. 

Our stack emissions testing and compliance services include:  

We provide all types of stack emissions testing using manual reference and alternative methods, instrumental analyzers, and FTIR including;

  • Particulate Matter, PM10 & PM2.5
  • Combustion Gases (NOX, NO, NO2, N2O, SO2, CO, CO2, VOCs & TOC)
  • Trace Pollutants (Dioxins & Furans, PCBs & PAHs, Metals & Mercury, Hexavalent Chromium)
  • Acidic Gases & Vapors (HCl, HF, NH3, HCN, H2S, Sulphuric Acid Mist, Nitric Acid Vapor)
  • Organic Compounds (Specific VOCs, Formaldehyde & Aldehydes, Isocyanates, Oil Mist, Tar & Bitumen Fume)
  • Odour
  • Bioaerosols
  • Biogenic Fraction CO2

Element performs stack emissions testing to the following standards:

Pollutant European Standards US EPA (CFR) Standards
Aldehydes US EPA Method 316 US EPA Method 316
Ammonia EN 14791
Bioaerosols VDI 4257
Biogenic Fraction CO2 EN ISO 13833
Carbon Dioxide ISO 12039
Carbon Monoxide EN 15058
Condensable VOCs In house accredited method
Dioxins and Furans EN 1948
Dioxin-like PCBs
EN 1948:4
Formaldehyde
US EPA Method 316
Gaseous Species by FTIR TGN M22 (Flexible Scope)
Halides and Halogens
US EPA Method 26/26A
US EPA Method 26/26A
Heavy Metals EN 14385
Hexavalent Chromium EN ISO 23210
Homogeneity EN 15259
Hydrogen Chloride
EN 1911
Hydrogen Cyanide
US EPA CTM 033
US EPA CTM 033
Hydrogen Fluoride ISO 15713
Hydrogen Sulphide
US EPA Method 11
US EPA Method 11
lsocyanates US EPA CTM 36

Mercury
EN 13211
Nitric Acid Vapour
US EPA Method 7D
Nitrous Oxide
EN ISO 21258

Odor
EN 13725

Oil Mist, Tar and Bitumen Fume
EN 13284-1 with MDHS 84

Oxides of Nitrogen
EN 14792

Oxygen
EN 14789

PAHs
ISO 11338

PM10& PM2.5
EN ISO 23210

Pressure, Temperature, and Velocity
EN 16911-1
Speciated VOCs
PD CEN/TS 13649

Sulphur Dioxide
EN 14791

Sulphur Dioxide
CEN/TS 17021

Total Particulate Matter
EN 13284-1

Total VOCs (TOC)
EN 12619

Water Vapour EN 14790
                                                                                                              

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