This is kind of a fun one to discuss.  I stumbled on this by accident when out of curiosity I wrote a report to pull the top 50 emitters for a large facility’s emission calculations.  I then started looking at other databases and found that I could consistently track a very highly quantity of emission to just 50 bad performing components.

This is the sixth of a six part series.

This issue has to do with splitting out the calculated values so that you can see which specific chemicals are being emitted for your facility.  Accuracy is vitally important but you have to be aware that not all chemicals are detectable by your organic vapor analyzer.

This is the fifth of a six part series.

This is closely related to my post about the timing of annual monitoring events as it has to do with timing.  I get calls all the time from folks who calculate for each of the four quarters of the year and then add them up and compare the results to a run of the calculation for the entire year.  These will never match and the user gets confused.  This will help.

This is the fourth of a six part series.

So we have discussed other component classes and unmonitored component.  Those are the two big contributors to high plant emissions.  Now let's discuss timing of monitoring and how that affects reporting.

This is the third of a six part series.

Part 1 focused on Unmonitored Components and part 2 is very closely related.  This is about the catch all of "Other" component classes.  In other words, the component types that you have in your facility that are not specifically mentioned in the EPA Protocol Manual.

This is the second of a six part series. 

I have been assisting clients with emissions calculations for more years than I care to count and have seen a few common mistakes made.  As an LDAR Expert, it will be good for you to know these mistakes so that you can avoid them for the facilities that you represent.

Emissions Calculations is not rocket science.  It is all about data points.  That means the common mistakes are usually based on the lack of data points.

This is the first of a six part series.

 



I had to call an electrician out to the house several months ago. After our initial conversation it took a couple more phone calls and a few more days before he actually showed up to do the work. Two hours and a few hundred dollars later and he was gone.

The next day I had a small fire in my garage.

What does this have to do with Leak Detection and Repair? Just like I did when hiring the cheapest electrician I could find, we often try to save a buck when we purchase LDAR...

The LeakTracker handset was introduced somewhere in the mid 90's. It was a big deal since it allowed direct read of the instrument reading and saved the technician some typing. It also meant the exact, reading could be captured. It was also supposed to be "cheater proof" by forcing the technician to scan a bar coded tag in order to start the monitoring process.

None of these feature by themselves were new, it was just the first time it was all wrapped up in one package.

Remember, LDAR itself was still fairly...