Characterising atmospheric fallout from industrial emissions

Taking place from 20th to 22nd September 2023 in sunny Barcelona, CEM 2023 will be our largest emissions monitoring event to date, with more exhibitors and presentations than ever! With 25 years of experience behind it and regular attendance from all around the world, this year’s conference will be CEM’s highly anticipated return to live events – and once again, our Scientific Committee have excelled themselves, putting together a jam-packed programme of talks and workshops delivered by thought-leaders, regulators and industry veterans from all across this global sector. As such, CEM 2023’s conference programme features representatives from many of the major national research institutions, with talks from members of the European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau (EIPPCB), a department of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre; the Environmental Protection Agency (United States); the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India); the Technical Research Centre of Finland; Italy’s Institute for Energy System Research (RSE); and France's National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks (INERIS).

On Day 1, INERIS's Jessica Queron will deliver a talk on the development of a new monitoring strategy for atmospheric fallout. In 2022, INERIS published a guide entitled 'Monitoring in the air around classified facilities - fallout of atmospheric emissions, impacts of human activities on the environment', which provided not only the methodology to define the pollutants to be pursued, the metrology to be implemented, the locations to be measured and the measurement periods but also an approach for interpreting the results. As INERIS sees it, the objective of environmental monitoring is to obtain measurement results that will allow, through measurement campaigns set up outside of accidental situations, to determine if local fallout of current atmospheric emissions from a specific site presents a risk to the environment or the population. Atmospheric fallout from industrial facilities emissions is made up of gases or particles that remain in suspension in ambient air and/or settle on integrating environmental compartments in direct contact with the atmosphere. This fallout, depending on the substances and use of media, may potentially lead to population exposure, either directly through inhalation or indirectly through the consumption of accumulating environmental matrices.

With two rooms running sessions in parallel over all three days of the conference, attendees to CEM 2023 will have full access to a whole host of presentations that will provide process operators, plant managers, laboratory technicians, instrument users and apprentices with the latest information on developments in emissions monitoring and measuring applications, regulations and technologies.  

If you’re interested in attending this year’s most exciting emission monitoring event, just click here to get your pass to CEM 2023 today.