How the EPA are expanding the availability of reference gases

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 National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom); the National Institute for Industrial and Environmental Risks (France); the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India); the Technical Research Centre of Finland; Italy’s Institute for Energy System Research (RSE); and the Environmental Protection Agency (United States). 

On Day 1 of CEM 2023, the EPA’s Jeff Ryan will deliver a talk outlining the Agency’s innovative approach to expanding the availability of reference gases to support reguatory emissions monitoring. In the US, calibration gases, otherwise known as Protocol Gases, which are directly traceable to reference gases, are integral to the Agency's compliance programs. In order to expand regulatory monitoring to pollutants of emerging interest, new reference gases are needed but must be approved by a National Metrological Institute, a process which takes time and resources that may not be available. In his talk, Jeff Ryan will outline the EPA's alternative approach, in which specialty gas providers will be authorized to develop and utilize functionally equivalent reference gases until such time as properly-certified reference gases are available. 

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.