Remote optical sensing evaluation (Rose) project enables company to push boundaries and maintain its reputation as a dynamic force in the field of environmental monitoring
This project seeks to define quality assessment and quality control parameters, and evaluate performance of remote optical measurement techniques (Romts) in support of future EC standardisation by determining best practice and performance standards.
Remote optical measurement techniques (Romt) are becoming increasingly common in air quality and gas sensing applications.
Romt uses real time in-situ gas analysis to measure gaseous pollutants, guaranteeing results are as accurate as possible.
This offers a number of advantages over competing technologies including flexibility of deployment and avoidance of extractive sampling.
Sira Environmental has noted that with increasing air quality legislation and national and international strategies on the horizon, industries must have complete confidence in their monitoring systems.
Unfortunately, many companies are reluctant to apply remote or open-path optical systems for formal monitoring purposes because there is a lack of standardisation between systems.
This has led to the introduction of a European initiative to determine critical performance factors for Romts.
The Rose project assesses Romts in the context of the environments they are applied in.
The most significant element of this project is that it has increased available knowledge about Romts.
This could in turn lead to a wider use of remote optical measurement techniques in enforcement or compliance monitoring applications.
Sira Environmental provides monitoring and conformity assessment solutions to a wide range of businesses in industries such as process, environment, manufacturing, oil and gas and petroleum.
It services the environmental monitoring community in the specific areas of emissions monitoring and gas/air quality analysis.
The Rose project has a wide range of applications including urban air quality, transport, energy, and process emissions.
Sira states that the Rose project has developed a firm theoretical foundation, which will support a set of best practice and performance standards.
These standards can then be used to inform new EC directives in the future, hence re-confirming Sira's place at the forefront of research and development in the environmental monitoring field, the company says.
Ultimately, the goal of the Rose project has been to verify that remote optical instruments can be trusted to perform with a defined level of uncertainty.
Additionally it has played a large part in demonstrating that specific instruments are compliant with one another.
