From the course: How Tech Drives Sustainability

What is continuous emissions monitoring?

From the course: How Tech Drives Sustainability

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What is continuous emissions monitoring?

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- [Instructor] Measuring emissions is a critical part of understanding the emissions created by an industrial process. These tests can be automated, semiautomated, or manually inputted. Continuous emissions monitoring, or CEM for short, helps businesses collect data around emissions. Through these regular tests, which are typically run in cycles, businesses can discover new insights. Methane emissions monitoring and mitigation are a key concern for oil and gas companies as regulatory pressure has been increasing around the world. Between the pledges made at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, energy-producing companies will need to shore up their emissions monitoring, measuring, and mitigation capabilities across their deployments. Using continuous emissions monitoring in your business model can help record emissions in real-time to your cloud using IoT. Whether you are concerned about your methane emissions, total volatile organic compound levels, or ozone emissions, IoT devices can help provide you with actionable data that can be processed in real-time, every minute. Continuous emissions monitoring can be used to examine overall air quality, the quality of water, or even noise pollution. To put it simply, continuous emissions monitoring is the process of measuring a pollutant at fixed intervals over time. For example, once per hour, to determine the overall level of a pollution in an area. By sampling air in different intervals, such as seconds, minutes, and hours, it's up to each business leader to understand and learn from these trends to deliver on the true promise of continuous monitoring. Which gives your organization complete visibility into your operations. And doing so, you can ensure that your organization can catch even intermittent leaks and get credit for environmental performance. Traditional detection methods, such as toxic or organic vapor analyzers, work well for small facilities. Unfortunately, they are expensive and cumbersome to install in large facilities, or over geographically dispersed locations. Connected continuous emissions monitoring solutions based on IoT technology can be applied on large and small scale deployments. Along with providing real-time insights into, not only greenhouse gas emissions, but also equipment performance and condition.

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