Turnkey solution for emissions surveillance in harsh environment

Chromatotec deployed in two areas a solution for VOCs emissions monitoring in process gases for a French manufacturer of fine chemicals and pharmaceutical intermediates and active ingredients.

The challenge was to deploy turnkey solutions without any gas cylinder for harsh environment conditions to replace lab GC which was not providing reliable results. The goal was to initiate the appropriate emergency response and damage repair measures as promptly and as precisely as possible, and to follow up with rigorous root cause analysis and comprehensive preventive and corrective actions.

As users are experts in process but not in gas monitoring, they ask for reliable solutions to provide results at a glance, sharing data through a web platform. The solution deployed allows monitoring on 10 specific VOC molecules classified in French legislation as possible CMR in addition to total VOCs contribution. Dynamic flow concentration was integrated to convert gas concentration into mass flow. To be warned if an error occurred during the process, Chromatotec deployed its new report’air web-platform to send e-mails to authorized persons when concentration or mass flow exceed a specific value. The solution deployed was GC FID based with two GC in a wall mounted box including tactile screen and gas generators.