A Preview of CEM 2023

It's official: CEM 2023 will be our largest emissions monitoring event to date, with more exhibitors and presentations than ever! With 25 years’ experience and regular attendance by businesses, researchers and regulators from all around the world, this year’s conference will be CEM’s highly anticipated return to live events, taking place in the vibrant city of Barcelona from 20th to 22nd September.

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 Environmental Protection Agency (United States); 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; and Italy’s Institute for Energy System Research (RSE). 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.

To give those interested just a little taste of what’s on offer, let’s take a quick skim through the conference programme of CEM 2023.

Our first day opens with a conference-wide discussion of current and future regulation, kicked off with a keynote presentation from Dr. Eric Aries of EIPPCB that will focus on important revisions to the Industrial Emissions Directive and what it might mean for the Sevilla Process. Afterwards, several other experts will continue with the theme and deliver talks on pressing issues in the regulatory space. From the Environmental Protection Agency, Jeff Ryan will discuss an innovative approach for increasing the availability of reference gases in which providers may be authorised to develop functionally-equivalent reference gases to prepare the necessary calibration gases until such time as true, NMI-certified reference gases become available. From India’s Council on Energy, Environment and Water, Sanjeev Kanchan will provide a survey of the successful utilisation of EU and US standards in the development of the Indian CEMs market and outline a future in which CEMs will play a crucial role in new regulatory mechanisms, like emissions trading and performance benchmarking.

After this first session breaks for lunch, that’s when CEM 2023 really gets into full swing, as the conference splits into two parallel sessions for the remainder of the event. Up first, sessions on data handling and the latest developments in emissions monitoring. In just one of four exciting talks within the former session, Dr. Domenico Cipriano of RSE will take the floor to discuss the new Data Acquisition and Handling (DAH) standard EN 17255 and how things have gone so far with its application to Italy’s AEDOS Project, which seeks a free and secure solution for remote-controlled Automated Measuring Systems (AMSs) for local authorities. Next door, in the first of many sessions on the latest in emissions monitoring, Dr Pritesh Shah of Prima Equipment will discuss another innovation in the operation of AMSs, taking his audience through a comprehensive overview of performance testing with reference to the DIN EN 14181 standard.

Now, with this many talks having already taken place, it may seem time to head for drinks at the Garden Terrace Networking Party to finish off Day 1 of CEM 2023 - but there are two more parallel sessions to go! In Room 1, you’ll find our New Pollutants session, one of the week’s most cutting-edge, bringing together an international panel of experts to discuss the monitoring characterisation, quantification and regulation of nitrosamines, ultrafine particles, condensable species and black carbon, among others. In Room 2, more of the latest in emissions monitoring but with an eye to sustainability, as industry leaders take us through applications in biogas plants and outline developments in probe sampling, monitoring low particle concentrations and wet gas applications.

After a relaxing evening, wake up refreshed for another indispensable day of presentations, starting with our first pair: in Room 1, Measuring Species at Low Concentrations, which will include discussions of size-fractionated particulate matter as well as most species of interest, like HCl, SO3, CH4, CHOH, and TOC (among others); then, in Room 2, The Challenges of Non-Stationary Emission Monitoring (Aviation, Marine and Transport), that will feature a sustainability impact assessment of Low Emissions Zones as well as a pioneering investigation of cloud-based fleet monitoring, data aggregation in the cloud and cyber-security for CEMs. After lunch, head to Room 1 for a session on the emerging challenge of CEMs for clean energy applications, with expert perspectives on measuring emissions at waste-to-energy plants as well as ammonia, hydrogen and biomass combustion sites. If you’re interested in continuous emissions monitoring for mercury, Day 3 of CEM 2023 will be most pertinent, with presentations on topics as wide-ranging as prospective economic enhancements for mercury CEMs under EU BREF, quality assurance of continuous monitors for mercury emission limits at lower BAT-AELs, the speciation of airborne mercury species at cement plants, and one British waste-to-energy firm’s experience complying with new mercury measurement requirements - it really is a one-stop shop for anyone involved in mercury monitoring. 

Of course, CEM 2023 is much more than just a conference: in our exhibition hall, you’ll find a world-beating lineup of instrument manufacturers and suppliers, providing attendees with an exclusive opportunity to explore the latest advancements in emissions monitoring. Indeed, many attendees have found that simple conversations with our exhibitors, all of whom possess a wealth of knowledge and insight, can be just as valuable as any conference session.

So, what are you waiting for? Just visit www.ilmexhibitions.com/cem to get your pass to our most exciting emissions monitoring event yet.