Testing freight containers

Toxic threat from freight

After a career as a customs officer in the Netherlands, Wim van Tienen was well aware of the toxic gas hazards presented by some...
Monitoring river catchments

The European Water Framework Directive and the role of monitoring…

The WFD has driven a wide variety of environmental improvements over the last 20 years, but by its own measures it has failed to...
Wastewater

Wastewater Treatment Optimisation System Saves 25% of Energy Costs

In May 2010, a new real-time control (RTC) system was installed at a wastewater treatment plant in Bournemouth that has reduced power demand by...

Fast instrumentation service assures environmental accreditation

In April 2022, the Leeds based stack testing company, Alkali Environmental was awarded UKAS and MCERTS accreditation for its emissions testing services. However, just...
AQMesh pod in London

Air quality monitors support legal action

AQMesh highlights London's NO2 problem... Staff from Air Monitors took an AQMesh air quality monitor to London's High Court whilst ClientEarth launched a new legal...
Monitoring borehole gases

NITRABAR research project – Nitrate pollution

Gas analyser helps reveal NITRABAR success A portable FTIR multiparameter gas analyser from Quantitech is helping researchers at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow prove the...
Oil Pollution

Lab Analysis Demonstrates Severity of Ogoniland Pollution

Lab Analysis Demonstrates Severity of Ogoniland Pollution Scientists from a UK laboratory have analysed over 4,000 air, soil and water samples collected from Ogoniland in...
Sensors still working on Mars after ten years

Celebrating 10 years of Mars measurements

Gathering a decade of accurate measurement data is a major feat in itself, but to do so on a robot travelling around the surface...
Gas analyser with detachable tablet

One day, all gas analysers will have detachable screens

Just because gas analyser screens have always been fixed on the front, doesn't mean that they should always stay there! Signal Group’s Managing Director, James...
Diesel generators

New Medium Combustion Plant Directive affects over 30,000 plants

New Medium Combustion Plant Directive affects over 30,000 plants... The AQE2018 Air Quality & Emissions Show will focus heavily on the Medium Combustion Plant Directive...