Editorial

The ECOM-A+ is a highly advanced emission analyzer for direct measurement of combustion gas parameters in industrial stack gas monitoring and combustion analysis. The measurement ranges of the instrument also allow it to be used in such related applications as natural gas and diesel engine exhaust emissions, burner/boiler combustion performance, or for determining compliance levels of O2, CO, NO, NO2, SO2.

The A+ analyzer measures eight parameters and calculates five more, including combustion efficiency and percent CO2. Data can also be downloaded to a PC.

Forney has maintained its position as a leader in power plant and large industrial systems for more than 75 years by designing, manufacturing, installing and servicing the most innovative lines of combustion and environmental equipment.

Since it's inception, Forney's combustion products have been applied to thousands of power and industrial boilers worldwide.  Our experience includes firing oil, gas, and process by-products.  Forney's combustion products include igniters, flame detectors, duct burners, burner management systems, and speciality applications.

The ATP Compact 4-in-1 Multi-Function Environment Meter is proving a popular addition to ATP Instrumentation

Thermal Energy International Inc., which recently acquired the Bristol based steam trap manufacturer GEM Ltd, is launching its highly acclaimed FLU-ACE technology to the UK and European market.  Greatly improving the fuel efficiency of boiler operations, FLU-ACE provides a significant return on investment, and reduces environmental emissions.

FLU-ACE effectively converts an Industrial boiler into a condensing boiler and, in so doing, effectively recovers up to 90% of the heat normally lost. This is possible because FLU-ACE

Factair, the market leader in breathing-air quality testing instruments, will be launching its latest generation of instruments at this year

One of the hot topics is the environment and the term

Self-monitoring is one of those things the Environment Agency has picked at for a long time but it's still a surprise to see a full-blown scheme to expand it in the air.

The Agency has chosen to roll out its new Operator Monitoring Assessment (DMA) system on monitoring air emissions from industrial processes regulated under Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) - one of its toughest regulatory tasks.

"We chose it first as the most difficult to do,"says the Agency's OMA manager, Paul Wiggins. "It has the greatest variety and complexity and itmakes sense to start with it."

Under OMA, the Agency will assess the self monitoring of air emissions that operators and their contractors carry out and, on the basis of this audit,decide what priority to give check monitoring of the site. Plainly this provides operators with an incentive to do the job properly; do it well and the lightest of regulatory touches will be placed upon them, do badly and the onerous hand of the regulator will lie heavy.

The scheme was finalised last November and trials and audits are now well underway. A review
of progress so far is in progress and the Agency hopes to have all 1800 IPC processes in England and Wales audited by the Spring of 2003.

Science, business, and government organizations are starting to support the fact that reducing greenhouse gas is an inevitable and integral component of doing business. Environmental awareness, particularly as related to excess greenhouse gases, has seen a surge of visibility from the international and domestic business communities.

 Thus, businesses worldwide are turning their focus to increased environmental awareness through reduction of resource consumption, particularly of fossil fuels, which is the leading cause of excess greenhouse gases.AMR Research addresses business