MCERTS makes its mark
18 Feb 2000
An oxygen analyser from ABB Instrumentation and an HCl analyser from Servomex are among the first items of equipment to be granted accreditation under the Environment Agency's MCERTS monitoring certification scheme. The first instruments completed their lab and site testing last August, since when five certificates have been awarded.
Operated by Sira Certification Service on behalf of the EA, MCERTS aims to promote and improve the quality of automatic stack monitoring data, although according to the EA's John Tipping the Agency plans to extend the scheme into other areas such as ambient air quality, water monitoring and portable stack monitoring (see PE, Sept 1999, p41).
ABB's low temperature ZFG2 zirconia oxygen analyser was developed from a series which the company says pioneered fully site-serviceable in situ probes for stack emissions monitoring. The ZFG/ZFG2 series operates at process temperatures from 20 degrees C to 600 degrees C and comes in insertion lengths from 0.4 to 4m.
The MCERTS approval for Servomex's xendos 2510 hydrogen chloride analyser was granted after laboratory tests at the National Physical Laboratory and field trials by AEA Technology Environmental (on behalf of Sira) at a municipal waste incinerator near Nottingham.
