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Prima Equipment’s testing facility inline

with DIN EN 15267-3 (part of QAL-1) for air

pollution monitoring

Industrial plants are required to maintain Emission Monitoring System, article of facility will support Indian and Asian
an efficient process of Continuous Dr. C. Sharma, Sr. Principal Scientist, manufacturers of CEMS equipment to
Source Emissions Monitoring from NPL in the publications of NPL, The get tested in India to meet international
various gas emission sources like Boiler, Gazette of India, August 2019 for standard of performance testing.
Furnace, Power Plant Stack, Chimney, developing testing facility at NPL for Will also help Indian manufacturer to
etc. DIN EN 15267-3 standard in India. develop equipment suitable for India
In order to indicate that their In 2018, PRIMA had taken the initial tropical conditions rather than getting
processes are effective, the Continuous step towards the process of developing tested in US and Europe. This testing
Emission Monitoring System is installed in-house testing facility in reference to facilities will help India’s manufacturers
to measure the pollutant emissions the DIN EN 15267-3 (part of QAL-1) to develop their own product
levels and meet the required standard. Competent team of certification facility.
criteria. engineers, laboratory facilities, PRIMA’s Testing Laboratory facility
To achieve effective and and software algorithms were will benefit Industries to establish
authentic emission data developed in reference to the Air Pollution monitoring facilities as
monitoring, the emission standard and various the tests reasonable capital expenditure and
monitoring systems are defined in it, such as Response contribute for Greener India.
required to meet the international Time, Repeatability Deviation for Zero Further, this affects the quality and
performance criteria. & Span points, Linearity, Influence test reliability of measurements by the
There are carefully drafted EN against Ambient Temperature, Sample instrument operation, in the long run,
Standards for assuring the high-quality Gas Flow, Voltage Variation, Cross necessitating the establishment of a
performance of permanently installed Sensitivity to different gases test. certification process of air pollution
automated monitoring systems (AMS/ To effectively perform the tests, the monitoring equipment, based on
CEMS). laboratory is equipped with state-of- Indian environmental and operational
PRIMA’s Testing Laboratory is in line the-art infrastructure, advance testing conditions.
with guidelines published by CPCB instrumentation and skilled manpower. In current scenario, the industries are
in the August 2018 for Continuous PRIMA’s Testing Laboratory not aware of Testing facility developed

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