Andy Tiffin
Socotec
- Conference: Emissions Monitoring Conference
- Presentation: Challenges of performing periodic and continuous sampling of HCL
- Presentation Time: Day1 11:30
Andy has worked as a projects manager for SOCOTEC for 10 years but has also had extensive experience of the monitoring industry for over 20 years working as an instrument engineer, applications specialist and technical specialist including being a qualified MCERTS Team Leader. Andy’s background is in ambient and stack emissions monitoring equipment, specialising in FTIR operation and analysis and more recently in 14181 project management. Andy sits on a number of CEN working groups looking at standard development and still has hands on experience of Test house testing methods and equipment operation.
A discussion of the challenges that are faced by test houses, CEM suppliers and site operators in performing testing of HCL, in particular in relation to BS EN 14181 testing of installed CEM systems. Getting good agreement between test house results and data from an installed CEM has proven to be problematic over the years and achieving reliable QAL2 calibration functions and passes during AST’s is of key importance to many site operators. This talk will discuss the known issues surrounding both SRM (Standard Reference Method) testing including best practice for test houses performing HCL testing, potential pitfalls of CEM systems installations and what site operators can do to improve the results obtained from BS EN 14181 projects. This talk will also highlight existing additional concerns that still require further research