Metrology for air pollutant emissions (IMPRESS 2)

IMPRESS

Funded by: EURAMET  
Calls: EUROPEAN METROLOGY PROGRAMME FOR INNOVATION AND RESEARCH (EMPIR)
Start date: 2017-06-01  End date: 2020-11-30
Total Budget: EUR 2.273.157,00  INO share of the total budget: EUR 90.000,00
Scientific manager: Rod Robinson   and for INO is: D’Amato Francesco

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Organization/Institution/Company main assignee: NATIONAL METROLOGY INSTITUTE -NPL Management Limited

other Organization/Institution/Company involved:
CEM Centro Español de Metrologia – Spain
CMI Cesky Metrologicky Institut – Czech Republic
DTI Teknologisk Institut – Denmark
DTU Danmarks Tekniske Universitet – Denmark
ENEA Ag Naz. per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e sviluppo economico sostenibile
INERIS Institut national de l’environ industriel et des risques ineris-France
ISSI Azienda Speciale Innovhub – Stazioni Sperimentali per L’Industria – Italy
PTB Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt – Germany
RISE RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB – Sweden
TU Delft Technische Universiteit Delft – Netherlands
UC3M Universidad Carlos III De Madrid – Spain
VSL VSL B.V. – Netherlands
VTT Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy – Finland

other INO’s people involved:
Viciani Silvia
Barucci Marco
Montori Alessio
Viciani Silvia


Abstract: European Directives are coming into force setting increasingly stringent Emission Limit Values (ELVs) for key air pollutants to mitigate ~400 000 premature deaths and €330-€949 billion p.a. of costs attributable to air pollution. However, the emissions industry faces an issue as a metrologically robust framework of standardised measurement methods to enforce these directives is not fully in place. This project will address this measurement gap by innovating measurement methods for new measurands (NH3, formaldehyde, HF, PM, SVOC, OGC, PAH), address a lack of uncertainty characterisation in flow measurements and develop next generation techniques for increasingly stringent future legislation.
Two measurement campaigns were carried out. The first one, at INERIS (F), verified the stability of different optical detection techniques versus the composition of the exhaust gases. For the first time, a multipass cell was deployed directly inside a stack, at the temperature of 140 °C. The second campaign, at ISSI Innovhub (MI), verified the effect of turbulence on the propagation of the exhaust gases, by measuring the concentration of a tracer gas in different points of the stack.

INO’s Experiments/Theoretical Study correlated:
IMPRESS 2 – Innovative Metrology for Pollution Regulation of Emissions from Stacks and area Sources
Gas analyzers for geological applications

The Scientific Results:
1) EMPIR project IMPRESS2: metrology for air pollutant emission
2) Campagna di misura del Progetto IMPRESS 2 presso ISSI Innovhub – Misure di flusso in camino, Ottobre 2019
3) Campagna di misura del Progetto IMPRESS 2 presso ISSI Innovhub – Misure di flusso in camino, Novembre 2019
4) Optical detection of ammonia inside a stack: Comparison of different techniques
5) Campagna di misura del Progetto IMPRESS 2 presso ISSI Innovhub – Misure di flusso in camino, intercalibrazione di tre tecniche di misura della velocità
6) Spectroscopic techniques versus Pitot tube for the measurement of flow velocity in narrow ducts