Marc Coleman
- Conference: Emissions Monitoring Conference
- Presentation: Do existing standard reference methods remain fit for purpose given increasingly stringent emission limits?
- Presentation Time: Day1 11:55
Dr Marc Coleman has been at the National Physical Laboratory for almost 20 years and directs much of the research in the Emissions and Atmospheric Metrology group concerned with the chemical and spectroscopic metrology of pollutants and greenhouse gases. Marc’s interests range from measuring industrial emissions at source through to remote sensing of the atmosphere’s composition / radiative balance. He is UK expert to 9 CEN/ISO standardisation groups and in the last 5 years has authored or co-authored 10 documentary standards. Marc plays a pivotal role in coordinating much of the emissions and atmospheric research carried out by European Metrology Institutes and in 2020 was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of his achievements.
Best Available Techniques (BAT) Conclusions have brought in (or in some cases will do so in the near future) increasingly stringent emission limits superseding those in the 2013 Industrial Emissions Directive. These new limits cover a range of pollutants, many of which are measured using Standard Reference Methods (SRMs) colloquially referred to as ‘wet chemistry’ methods, as the CEN standardised method requires collection of the sample from the stack in an absorbing solution prior to despatch to an analytical laboratory for quantification (e.g. EN 1911 for monitoring HCl). We take stock of the suitability of such CEN standardised methods in terms of providing the necessary QA/QC to measure decreased emissions under these increasingly stringent emission limits.