Environmental Consulting and Monitoring Services

Conducting performance test programs that meet the applicable requirements of 40 CFR Part 63 Subpart EEE (Hazardous Waste Combustor MACT) and RCRA regulations, while maintaining permit operating conditions that allow operational flexibility can be a challenge.

Our objective is to assist clients in planning and successfully executing trial burns, risk burns, compliance tests, and other emissions testing while maintaining the desired flexibility. Spectrum succeeds through working closely with a client’s operations, engineering, management teams and the regulatory agencies. Careful planning, an understanding of the permit, the regulations and client communication are vital to success. Our personnel are experienced and uniquely talented in this complex and specialized testing. Spectrum provides onsite guidance and support to ensure a successful test program.

As concern over public exposure to hazardous air pollutants grows, ambient air and fenceline monitoring programs are increasingly being mandated to provide emissions data to facilities and their surrounding communities. Spectrum is experienced in constructing, operating, and maintaining the instrumentation necessary to provide high-quality, real time concentration data for various target pollutants along a given path.

We specialize in open-path (OP) Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)  and Ultraviolet Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (UV-DOAS) monitoring systems, which, with a source of collocated meteorological data, can be easily integrated into a more complete ambient air or fenceline monitoring solution.

Through the use of our Tsunami™ Data Management System, Spectrum also offers the option of a private or public website displaying current and historical data, reports, public notifications, and any other related information.

Whether a short-term area monitoring project or a long-term installed system, Spectrum is involved every step of the way to ensure quality, reliability, and compliance.

The EPA and other regulatory bodies are shifting to FTIR and UV-DOAS techniques as their preferred methods of compliance testing due to their versatility and completeness. At Spectrum, we understand the need to adhere to specific test protocols and equipment specifications when conducting these compliance tests.

Collectively, our experts have over 50+ years performing extractive and open-path measurements across a multitude of industries in accordance with the most common published protocols (EPA Methods 320 and 321, ASTM D6348-12, EPA Protocol for Measuring Destruction or Removal Efficiency (DRE) of Fluorinated Greenhouse Gas Abatement Equipment Electronics Manufacturing, etc.). Our commitment to necessary test methods and/or specifications ensures that you are reporting the highest quality optical sensing data for any compliance needs.

We provide support for a wide variety of subject areas where we strive to take a deep dive into the details in order to support on each company’s unique environmental needs. Areas of additional monitoring consulting expertise include, but are not limited to:

• Mass Flux Radial Plume Mapping
• Passive FTIR
• And More