Next Generation Emissions Measurements - Helping to Improve Air Quality and Source Understanding

Industrial and waste management facilities can emit air pollutants and odorous compounds from fugitive leaks, process malfunctions, and area sources that are difficult to predict, quantify, and manage. These sources can produce a range of environmental and life quality impacts and create significant uncertainty and stress for industries, regulators, and fenceline communities.

EPA’s Next Generation Emissions Measurements (NGEM) research program works with a range of partners to develop and test emerging air monitoring tools that can assist facilities in the detection and management of these air pollution sources. NGEM is helping industries reduce emissions and is enabling new measurement-based emissions management and inventory strategies. Lower-cost NGEM tools are now beginning to help fenceline communities better understand the air they breathe. This webinar provides a brief overview of several NGEM techniques that are useful at the intersection of industries and communities. Leak detection and fenceline sensors, mobile monitoring, specialized measurements for air toxics, and the fusion of sensor data with new information tools, such as EPA’s emerging Odor Explore App, will be discussed.