Quality, experience, commitment-- Clean Air Engineering's Emissions Testing team provides professional stationary source emission testing and ambient air-quality measurement. We satisfy your facility's regulatory and permit requirements for emissions testing and can provide vital process evaluation data, performance optimization services and guarantee testing. Our services include:

• Trial Burn Planning and Testing
• Emissions Monitoring
• Performance Optimization and Guarantee Testing
• Emission Inventories
• VOC Capture and Removal Efficiency Testing

Quality Environmental Reporting
The final report is our finished product. We put a great deal of care into each report to ensure the clarity and accuracy of all test data.

CleanAir’s reporting procedures provide complete, accurate and concise reports with minimum turnaround time. The data reduction, calculation and reporting is performed using industry standard spreadsheet, word processing and document publishing software. Learn more about CleanAir environmental data reporting:

• Validation Criteria
• Field Test Data
• Final Report Format

Trial Burn Planning and Testing

CleanAir is experienced in all phases of trial burn planning and execution from development of the sampling and analytical matrix to performing waste stream and emissions testing to final data reduction, validation and reporting. Our experience in managing trial burn projects allows us to meet your requirements in the most cost-effective manner possible.

Our experienced staff assists hazardous waste incinerators and BIF operators by:

• Selection of Principal Organic Hazardous Constituents (POHCs) of interest
• Preparation of a Trial Burn Plan for submission to regulatory agencies
• Sampling and analysis of waste feed, ash, scrubber waters and stack effluent
• Coordination of waste feed POHC spiking
• Calibration and operation of continuous monitoring instrumentation
• Data reduction, validation and reporting

We also assist waste-to-energy sources by performing:

• Start-up testing
• Energy or boiler efficiency testing
• Annual compliance testing
• CEM certification testing
• Process enhancement and optimization

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Emissions Monitoring

Clean Air routinely performs compliance sampling to the satisfaction of regulatory agencies. These tests include:

• Sampling for dioxin/furans, hexavalent chromium, volatile/semivolatile organics and heavy metals
• Particulate, SO₂, NOx, THC and other criteria pollutant emissions testing
• VOC capture and destruction efficiency testing
• Continuous emissions monitor certification testing
• Hazardous air pollutant (HAPs) emissions testing
• Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) Testing and Monitoring

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Performance Optimization and Guarantee Testing

CleanAir performs process optimization and performance guarantee tests on air pollution control equipment such as:

• ASME boiler and air heater efficiency testing
• Electrostatic precipitator optimization and gas flow distribution studies
• Evaluation of emissions reduction schemes such as low NO_x burner retrofits and process modifications
• Gas turbine emissions testing
• FGD performance guarantee testing
• Baghouse collection efficiency
• Thermal oxidizer optimization
• Scrubber efficiency determinations
• Basic Oxygen Furnace emissions collection system efficiency testing

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Emission Inventories

Our air toxics staff will work with you to review pertinent information including Material Safety Data Sheets, SARA Title III reports, as well as shipping, inventory, and usage data to determine total toxic emissions. Follow-up testing can also be performed, if necessary, to further quantify or precisely locate the source of emissions.

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VOC Capture and Removal Efficiency Testing

Many regulations require that pollution control devices operate above a minimum level of efficiency. Two types of efficiency are typically measured:

• Capture Efficiency - A determination of the amount of pollutant that is captured by the control system.
• Removal Efficiency - A determination of the amount of captured pollutant removed from the gas stream by the control device.

In addition to satisfying regulatory requirements, sampling and analysis can also provide valuable information for:

• Material loss evaluation
• Process performance optimization resulting in reduced energy costs
• Contaminant source identification
• Operating cost reduction
• Production maximization (in accordance with a facility’s allowable yearly emissions)

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Validation Criteria

Raw field and laboratory data and preliminary results are checked by the Project Managers prior to submission to the report coordinator. The raw data and analysis results are entered into the system and checked for completeness and accuracy. All results are checked by the report coordinator to ensure that all pertinent information is included in the report and that the results are accurate.

The principal criteria that are used to validate data integrity during data collection and reporting are documented. These include:

• Frequent verification that all raw data generated during the preceding week have been stored on magnetic tape and in hard copy;
• Examination of at least five percent of the raw data (e.g., chromatogram, AAS recorder outputs) on a frequent basis to verify adequacy of documentation, confirm peak shape and resolution, assure that the automatic integrator was sensing peaks appropriately, and so forth;
• Confirmation that raw areas for internal standards and calibration standards and raw and relative areas for surrogate compounds are within 50% of the expected value;
• Reporting of all associated blank, standard and QC data along with results for analyses of each batch of samples;
• Reporting of all analytical data for all samples with no values rejected as outliers.

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Field Test Data

All field test data collected is recorded on the appropriate data sheets. Initial averages of each column are calculated in the field. After the data is returned to CleanAir, it is entered into a spreadsheet, re-averaged and compared to the field averages. Any discrepancies are investigated to determine if data entry or field calculation errors were made.

After all field data has been entered and checked for accuracy, filter and beaker weights are entered from the laboratory results. Parameter sheets and sample calculations are printed and copies made of the field data sheets and laboratory weight sheets. These are visually inspected to again confirm accurate data entry. This information is compiled and integrated into the report.

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Final Report Format

CleanAir encourages electronic data reporting (EDR) and electronic data interchange (EDI) possibilities to help reduce preparation time and paper usage. CleanAir can supply any report in a digital format across a multiplatform level on a CD-ROM. Direct electronic links with client and supplier systems help reduce overhead and lead time.

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