Annual Guide 2021 I SOURCE TESTING ASSOCIATION
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.
Course Content • Background to Environmental Regulations including IPPC. • Description of the OMA scheme. • The role of MCERTS schemes in stack-emission monitoring. • Introduction to major pollutants
• The nature of emission limits, including reference conditions and units of measurement.
• An understanding of the principles of stack-emission monitoring.
• An appreciation of the importance of correct sampling location for stack emission monitoring
• The practicalities of planning and executing stack-emissions monitoring campaigns including the importance of Risk Assessments.
• Quality checks to ensure robust monitoring data 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 carrying 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.
Course Content
• Ethical requirements for independence and environmental awareness
• Use of MCERTS certifi ed personnel
• Selection of appropriate methods following international standards
• Method Implementation Documents • Estimation of measurement uncertainty • Use of appropriate equipment • Description of standard reference methods
• Planning of a sampling measurement campaign: site review; risk assessment; site-specifi c protocol • Reporting of results • Participation in profi ciency-testing schemes.
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
Course Content
• Background - Directives, legislation and implementation • QAL1 and MCERTS - Defi nition and understanding • QAL2 and SRMs - Defi nition and scope of the Standard Reference Methods (SRM). Importance of quality measurements. • Roles and responsibility - As required by QAL2 and the annual surveillance tests (AST)
• QAL3 - How this is carried out and the audit requirements. • Practical examples - Using example data to establish a calibration function • Meeting the reporting requirements of BS EN14181
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,
Course Content
• What is the MCPD? Frequency of monitoring • How to register your plant • MCERTS overview and what is required • Monitoring approach • Sampling locations • Principles of gas sampling • Principles of particulate monitoring • Emission monitoring equipment overview • SO2
Emissions reporting based on sulphur content of fuels • Expressing uncertainty of measurement
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