AQE on show

AQE 2015, the international Air Quality and Emissions show, comes at a time when concern about air pollution and climate change has never been greater.

Running in Telford from April 22 to 23, the show will examine the latest regulations, technologies, methods and research in air quality and emissions monitoring.

“Visitors to AQE 2015 will find new ways improve the quality and reliability of monitoring, while ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations and standards,” says show organiser Marcus Pattison.

AQE 2015 is the eighth in a series of specialist air monitoring events to take place at Telford, and the show will include over fifty free workshops and hundreds of exhibitors of air quality and emissions monitoring products and services.

Conference: Emissions monitoring

AQE 2015 will kick off on April 22 with David Graham from E.ON Technologies explaining how stacks are defined under legislation that aggregates units together.

He will also provide a regulatory update on the Industrial Emissions Directive and the Medium Combustion Plant Directive.

Jonathan Clark from Syngenta will then outline the challenges facing operators with small stacks in relation to periodic monitoring and compliance with standards.

Dan Jones from E.ON Technologies will then address issues facing the operators of large stacks.

In the afternoon, Derek Myers from REC will provide an overview of the challenges facing test laboratories when sampling dust from wet stacks, and finally, Rod Robinson from NPL will explain the measurement and calculation of stack flow rate for mass emissions reporting purposes.

Conference: Air quality

Stephen Stratton from Ricardo AEA will begin day two of the conference with a summary of a study on exposure to pollution at buggy height, adult height and air-quality-station height.

Jacqueline Barr from IBI/Transport Scotland will then deliver a presentation on a network of new monitoring technologies applied to traffic management and control systems.

David Green from Kings College London will then report on a series of PM Speciation Studies looking at the makeup of particulate matter measured across the UK.

In the afternoon, Martine Van Poppel from VITO Belgium will explain the results of the CARBOTRAF EU Project that examined ways in which Black Carbon and carbon dioxide levels can be reduced.

In the final presentation, David Carslaw from King’s College London will discuss ‘OpenAir’ - a free software tool for the analysis and visualisation of air quality data.

International Exhibition

With more than 90 stands, the AQE exhibition offers an opportunity to see all the latest developments in instrumentation and monitoring services.

In the emissions monitoring sector, DURAG will demonstrate a back-scatter optical stack monitor.

ABB will feature the new ACF5000 hot/wet FTIR extractive continuous emissions monitoring system, and AMS Analitica (Italy) will present the combination of a new portable sampler with a new portable Isokinetic Calculator.

Pollution SRL will launch a lightweight FID analyser, and SICK will showcase a total mercury monitoring solution.

EiUK’s RASI800 emissions analyser recently received MCERTS certification, and will feature on the company’s stand.

PCME’s stand will feature several new flow measurement technologies, and for ambient monitoring, Air Monitors will demonstrate low cost, battery powered, wireless ambient monitors, and AQE will provide the first opportunity to see the new DUVAS (Differential Ultra Violet Absorption Spectrometer) portable battery powered multigas monitor which enables monitoring on the move.

Workshops

Over 50 free walk-in workshops will address a wide variety of air quality monitoring themes.

On the first day, the workshops will cover the measurement of particulates, nitrogen oxides, TOC, dioxins and many other toxic gases.

Quantitech’s workshop will pose the question ‘VOCs why speciate?’ There will also be presentations on dust modelling and the employment of the ‘Internet of Things’ in environmental monitoring.

The second say’s workshops will include an explanation of a wide variety of applications for FTIR, as well as a presentation on engine emissions monitoring and optical gas imaging for fugitive VOCs.

Air Monitors will also unveil the latest trial data on AQMesh pods.

Demonstration Arena

A section of a ‘life-size’ chimney stack will be constructed in the demo area, fitted with a range of Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS), providing an insight into the latest online monitoring systems.

The ambient air quality monitoring section of the arena will feature a variety of monitoring applications highlighting the latest wireless, battery-powered monitoring technology.

Attendance at the conference is £55 +VAT per day or £100 for both days.

Entrance to the exhibition and workshops is free and pre-registration guarantees free lunch, refreshments and parking.

Register online at www.aqeshow.com