Two Gasmet Monitors Nominated for Awards at WWEM 2022

At this year’s Air Quality and Emissions (AQE) conference in Telford, a number of awards were given out for excellence in various aspects of air monitoring. To learn a little more about their products, partnerships and why they come to AQE, EnvirotechOnline took a walk around the exhibition floor to talk to some of the nominees. 

We asked Andy Dixon, Sales Manager at Gasmet, for some more information about two of their newest products, the AutoQAL and GT90 Dioxin+, both of which were nominated for AQE’s Most Innovative Instrument, Product, or Digital Solution award. 

“This market, the CEMs market, is driven by legislation – in particular, it’s driven by the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED). Parts of the legislation say that, depending on who you are – perhaps, you’re a hazardous site or something like that, you fall into a certain category –, you need to measure mercury. For other sites, the permit will say that you need to measure dioxins.  

In reality, what happens is, say, you’ve got an incinerator, the Environment Agency will give you an inspection, issue you with a permit to work, and that permit will say that you need to measure the usual suspects – SOx, NOx and HCl – as well as dioxins, but not mercury. That’s why we’ve got a whole family of products, covering really all of the analytes that you’ll need to measure in air analysis.  

Basically, there’s a heated line that goes to the top of a chimney stack, you put in a probe, a piece of pipe with a filter on, and you suck the gas through the heated line and through the analysers.  There’s a software layer inside that records all of your data and turns it into average for you. You know, the system collects data every minute, 24/7 for ten years and you end up with millions and millions of spectra, so the software crunches it all up and says: “Right, here is your half-daily average, here’s your daily average” or whatever it might be. So, that’s basically how the systems work.”  

Later, we discussed Gasmet’s reasons for attending WWEM 2022. 

“Well, this is our fifth time at WWEM, because it’s been very good, usually. Partly this is because so many people know of the exhibition. For example, I went to the RWM exhibition four or five weeks ago, and people there were asking me: “Are you coming to AQE?” Everybody knows it, everybody comes here, and everybody knows that we are here. We’ve got a big stand. We’ve invested money, because that’s our business and people do come – it’s as simple as that.  

The other advantage is that all of our competitors attend, too. It’s like when you’re trying to buy a car; all the different dealers are built next to each other because what they all want is traffic – if all the outlets are all there in one place, customers will come just to visit everyone at once. And it’s just a friendly, nice show.” 

In 2024, AQE will return bigger and better, graduating to the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham. For information on exhibiting at AQE 2024, click here.