Korean certification for portable VOC emissions analyser

Signal Group’s portable VOC analyser, the 3010 MiniFID has achieved NIER certification, demonstrating compliance with Article 9 of South Korea’s Environmental Testing and Inspection Act.

“The 3010 has been one of our most successful products for many years, and is proving particularly popular in Asia,” comments Signal’s Simon Corrigan. “The main features of the analyser have changed very little over time, because customers appreciate its rugged design and simple operation, which are two important features for portable devices.”

The instrument evaluation was arranged by Signal’s distributor in South Korea Y&J Eng, and the certificate was awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER). Explaining the importance of the certificate, Simon says: “This is commonly regarded as equivalent to Europe’s QAL1, which demonstrates that emissions analysers are fit for purpose.”

With thousands of analysers supplied all over the world, the 3010 MiniFID has been proven in a wide variety of environments. However, Simon says: “Certification in Korea provides further confirmation of the instrument’s accuracy and reliability, particularly in climates where a heated analyser is essential for more applications than just post-combustion emissions.”

As a portable Flame Ionisation Detector (FID) analyser, the 3010 MiniFID is designed for the discontinuous measurement of gaseous and vaporous organic substances in stationary source emissions. Typical applications include the emissions testing of solvent-using and combustion processes, engine emissions, and VOC abatement systems, as well as checking and calibrating installed continuous analysers.

Summarising Simon says: “There are an enormous number of industries that need to measure Total Hydrocarbon emissions periodically, and many of these applications involve multiple locations at which VOC emissions have to be monitored,” he explains. “For compliance purposes, the analyser should ideally be a heated FID, and if it is rugged but small and lightweight that would be a significant advantage. The 3010 MiniFID is therefore the ideal solution, and NIER certification adds third-party verification that the analyser performs to specification.”