On the nose: odour management begins with monitoring
By Duncan Carter, Sales Engineer at Enviro Technology Services
When a gas leak at a chemical plant in Rouen, France caused mercaptan to waft...
Firm shortlisted in Singaporean challenge
Environmental management technology firm Envirosuite has been shortlisted in Singapore PUB’s Global Innovation Challenge (GIC)
Crowdsourced pong reports clarify urban air quality in Vancouver
University of British Columbia researchers say they have uncovered surprising insights into the Vancouver region's “smellscape” using data from the Smell Vancouver app. Analyzing...
Interest remains high in odour reduction method for post-consumer plastic recycling
Last year Austrian plastic packaging and recycling specialist Starlinger introduced its technology for odour reduction in post-consumer plastic recycling, and since then it has...
It’s still a work in progress
As social and economic views on the environment and the way in which we treat our waste are becoming a part of common culture...
Study day offers up-to-date guidance on odour management
Specialist odour consultancy Silsoe Odours is offering a one-day course on odour management on 31 January 2019. It is seemingly the only CPD-Certified odour...
High performance and low cost odour solutions
Anua Clean Air UK is an established leader in the fields of high performance, low-cost odour and solvent emission abatement primarily based on its patented biofiltration and bioscrubbing technologies.
Understanding how flies smell may have applications in robotics
How does a fly find its way to that mouldy banana lying concealed in a kitchen cupboard? A question of that order was posed...
Using analytics to manage wastewater and odour issues
Australian water utility SA Water has recently spoken about its trialing of a custom analytics platform as a means to manage real-time data from its wastewater network
Managing a highly charged matter
Edenbridge based CSO Technik, a firm offering engineered solutions to environmental pollution problems, provides a rundown of the key issues to consider when safeguarding...
Scottish Water Horizons fined for Cumbernauld odours
Scottish Water Horizons Limited was fined £26,000 at Airdrie Sheriff Court on Monday 10 October 2016 due to offensive odours coming from its Deerdykes...
A belt and braces approach to H2S
Gas monitoring expert a1-cbiss offers a few thoughts on hydrogen sulphide emissions: The problems they present, how best to monitor them, and how such...
The UK’s smelliest places to live?
In search of a definitive ranking, the home fragrance experts at packaging firm Lifestyle Packaging recently asked every council in the UK (335 in total) how many nuisance smell complaints they received from local residents between 2015-2019.
Flexible, gas-thrifty odour abatement for food processor
Babcock Wanson has supplied a regenerative thermal oxidiser for poultry supplier Moy Park’s Grantham, Lincolnshire facility. The project involved the design, construction, erection...
Why use Venturi ejectors for tank aeration?
Venturi aeration is said to provide a relatively simple aeration option in systems requiring additional power and regular maintenance.
Comparing aeration and biofiltration for odour impact
A study of two wastewater treatment plants in Cordoba, Spain evaluates the odorous impact of the technologies deployed in each.
Modelling tool boosts mitigation
Australian environmental managment technology firm Envirosuite has entered into an exclusive agreement with the University of Queensland that will see the SeweX modelling tool for wastewater management embedded into its wastewater solutions, and this will seemingly drive significant improvements in corrosion management and the mitigation of problems like odour.
A step closer to digitizing the sense of smell?
A mathematical model that maps the relationship between the molecular structure of odorous substances and how they are perceived is claimed to have an...
Aerial appraisal
Researchers from Spain have engineered a portable electronic nose that they suggest is almost as sharp as the human nose when it comes to sniffing out the problem odours of wastewater treatment plants.
Using probiotics to tackle odour
Katie Edwards, R&D scientist at Genesis Biosciences, explores the causes of malodour in the workplace and offers her thoughts on biological odour neutralisers
