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The professional and personal development of stack testers has been a fundamental role of the STA over the past 25 years. The STA has developed and provided training and revision courses to the industry. Our courses are carried out live over Microsoft Teams allowing participants and trainers to interact as though they were in the same room. The STA offer training courses covering the following topics.
Risk Assessment - Industrial Emission Monitoring The course covers all aspects of the “Yellow BOOK” and includes case studies of recent H&S incidents, the use of Risk Assessment, COSHH, safe lifting, Weather Conditions, Electricity and PPE use.
Regulatory Monitoring Requirements for Process Operators The purpose of the course is to provide an understanding of the Environment Agency’s MCERTS schemes as part of the requirement of the EA Operator Monitoring Assessment. This will increase process operators’ awareness of their role in managing emissions monitoring and so improve their OMA audit score.
On Site Auditing
A requirement of the OMA scheme is for process operators to carry out periodic auditing of stack-emission monitoring. On-site auditing refers specifi cally to checking that the personnel carry- ing out monitoring do so in accordance with the agreed site-specifi c protocol (SSP) and documented procedures. The aim of this one day training course is to provide a basic understanding of stack-emission monitoring to enable process operators, regulators and environmental consultants to audit stack sampling contractors.
BS EN14181 quality assurance of an AMS BS EN 14181—Stationary source emissions - Quality assurance of automated measuring systems (AMS) (CEM systems) is one of the most signifi cant and demanding standards to be developed by CEN and it has far reaching consequences for Regulators, Equipment Manufactures, Test Houses and most importantly - Process Operators. In the implementation of the standard the Agency has developed a Method Implementation Document (MID) and a Technical Guidance Note. The purpose of the training is to provide guidance in the application of the various parts of the standard. There are practical examples of how to handle the data and establish the calibration function Medium Combustion Plant Directive and Specifi ed Generator Regulations The European Union’s Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) entered into force in December 2015 and this was transposed into national legislation by 20 December 2017. The MCPD applies to existing individual Medium Combustion Plants (MCPs) in the net thermal input range 1 to <50 MWth and new aggregated plants above 1 MWth (provided that these do not qualify as a Large Combustion Plant under the Industrial Emissions Directive). Most stationary combustion plants are in the scope of the MCPD and will be required to register and report emissions to the Environment Agency, types of plants under the MCPD but not limited to include boilers, engines and turbines.
Foundation Course- Introduction to MCERTS Level 1 This course is designed to provide an introduction in Emission Monitoring and to provide a foundation to the delegate on the requirements MCERTS Standard Level 1 Course Content • Introduction to major pollutants • Basic equipment operation • Principles of extractive monitoring • Manual sampling techniques • Continuous Emission Monitoring • Units and reference conditions • Introduction to legislation, regulations and standards • Environment Agency MCERTS scheme • Quality management in stack-emissions monitoring
MCERTS Level 2 – Team Leader This course is designed to provide training to assist the progression from MCERTS Level 1 to Level 2. Course Content • Responsibilities of a Level 2 • Health and safety review • Virtual site visit • Site specifi c protocol • Risk assessment • Report preparation • Measurement uncertainty • Selection of methods and equipment • Pollution abatement techniques • Types of industrial process
MCERTS Personnel competency • TE1 – particulate monitoring Course Contents: • Standards review • TE1.1 Sample train components • TE1.2 Sample location • TE1.3 Preliminary work and quality control • TE1.4 Calculating stack gas volumetric fl ow rates • TE1.5 Calculating fl ow rates in a sample train • TE1.6 Units and reference conditions
TE2 – Trace element (dioxins, metals etc) measurement Course Contents: • An introduction to trace species • Sampling equipment for trace species • Sample recovery and analysis • Calculations
TE3 – Gaseous measurement by manual extractive measurement Course Contents: • Introductions • Representative sampling • Batch sampling • Water vapour • Hydrogen chloride • Hydrogen fl uoride • Halogens and halides (excluding HCl and HF) • Sulphur dioxide, sulphur trioxide and total sulphur • Ammonia • Other wet chemistry methods • Speciated VOCs • Other tube/fi lter methods • Calculations
TE4 – Gaseous measurement by instrumental analysers Course Content: • Introductions • Sampling gases using instrumental techniques • Optical instrumental techniques • Non-optical instrumental techniques • Calibration and maintenance • Calculations
If you are interested in any of the above courses, please visit
www.s-t-a.org or contact
info@s-t-a.org
Your STA
The STA meetings and task groups are available for all STA members to attend and contribute. If you are an existing STA member and not already involved in the valuable work the STA does or if you are interested in becoming a member, please email
info@s-t-a.org and one of the team will contact you.
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