Rod Robinson
National Physical Laboratory
- Conference: Emissions Monitoring Conference
- Presentation: Measurement Uncertainty - Performance of methods at low concentrations
- Presentation Time: Day1 09:30
Principal Research Scientist at National Physical Laboratory, technical lead for emission and carbon measurement scientific area. Expertise in measurement of fugitive emissions from industrial sources including refineries. Long history of working in standardisation, Former Chairman and Quality officer of STA, involved in developing uk methods eg instrumental SO2, Vice Chair of CEN air quality technical committee, Chairman of UK mirror BSI group, EH 2/1, and convenor of CEN TC 264 WG 38 which is currently standardising the measurement of fugitive and distributed emissions of VOCs from refineries.
This talk will introduce the issues caused by lower emission limit values. It will briefly explain the background to the reduced limit values arising from the development of the Best Available Technique Reference documents (BREFS) under the Industrial Emission Directive, and the impact on the requirements for reference and compliance measurement methods. The issues related to the performance of methods at lower concentrations and the impact on measurement uncertainty will be discussed. Some examples of how uncertainty is being handled at the low concentrations will be discussed and the talk will introduce some of the topics which will be discussed in more depth in the following talks.