Two Products from South Coast Science Nominated for Award at AQE 2022

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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. 

On the first day of the show, we caught up with David Johnson, Sales Director at South Coast Science, to talk about the Praxis/Urban and the Praxis/Cube, both of which were nominated for AQE’s Most Innovative Instrument, Product, or Digital Solution award. 

“Back in 2017, the Praxis/Urban was developed in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme. It is now used across Africa in half-a-dozen countries. It’s a multi-gas device (up to five) and particulate monitor for measurement of particulate temperature, humidity and pressure. The device has a GPS module within, so you know where it is at any one time, communicating through ethernet or 4G. The most common application of the Praxis/Urban is for ambient air quality monitoring in towns and cities, where you need to analyse multiple gases. 

The Praxis/Cube, on the other hand, was launched at the beginning of last year as a scaled-down version of the Urban. It’s much more suitable for fence-line monitoring, construction-site monitoring, perimeter monitoring, where only particulates or particulates and a single gas are being measured. Ordinarily, that single gas is NO2, because it’s often used on construction sites where the particulates must be monitored, as well as the output of the diesel-fuelled construction vehicles on that site. Its platform is functionally the same as the Urban. 

In development, we have devices for indoor air quality and the measurement of odour in the wastewater treatment industry.” 

When we asked David about why South Coast Science come to AQE, he was to-the-point: “AQE, I’ve always said, is the go-to event for air quality. I don’t know of anything else like this in Europe.” 

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.