Emission Measurements: Accurate Analysis Methods for Air Quality and Environment

What is Emission? Why are Emission Measurements Made?

What is Emission?

Emission is defined as the air pollutants emitted from a facility into the atmosphere, resulting from the combustion of fuel and the like. Emission measurements are important analyses to protect air quality, sustain environmental health and control pollutants that threaten human health. These measurements are applied to determine the amount of harmful gases released into the atmosphere by industrial facilities, vehicles and other sources. Determining pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO₂), sulphur dioxide (SO₂), nitrogen oxides (NOₓ) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is critical to controlling air quality.

Importance of Emission Measurement

Emission measurements provide the necessary scientific data for the control and regulation of environmental pollution. Air pollution poses a major threat with its negative impacts on climate change and human health. With emission analysis, these threats can be controlled in the following ways:

1. Protection of Air Quality: Limiting the release of pollutant gases into the atmosphere and protecting air quality.
2. Legal Compliance: Compliance with legal regulations on emission limitations and fulfillment of requirements.
3. Combating Climate Change: Mitigating the effects of global warming by reducing carbon emissions.
4. Public Health Protection: Reducing health problems such as respiratory diseases by improving breathable air quality.

Why should flue gas emission measurements be made?

• Combustion efficiency control
• Emission control
• Process control

What are the Benefits of Emission Measurements?

• Taking measures to increase efficiency by controlling boiler efficiency
• Saving fuel and money
• Reducing emissions, keeping them within limits and complying with legal regulations
• To increase the process quality in production with process control and to control the boilers used in the process

Emission measurements are carried out within the scope of the “Regulation Amending the Regulation on the Control of Industrial Air Pollution”. The purpose of this Regulation is to control emissions in the form of soot, smoke, dust, gas, vapor and aerosol emitted into the atmosphere as a result of the activities of industrial and energy production facilities; to protect people and their environment from the dangers arising from pollution in the air receiving environment; to eliminate the negative effects that cause significant harm to the public and neighborhood relations arising in the environment due to air pollution and to determine the procedures and principles for preventing the emergence of these effects.

The main emission pollutants specified under the Regulation:

• Combustion gases such as SO2, NOx, CO
• Dust, Heavy metals in dust
• VOC (Volatile Organic Vapor and Compounds
• Fluorine, Chlorine
• PAH

Flue Gas Emission Measurement Techniques:

• Direct Measurement
• Chimney Sampling

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