Morocco

Jorf Lasfar Electrical Company (JLEC) located in El Jadida Morocco, is required to conduct annual stack and ambient systems audits to confirm on-going compliance with World Bank loan guarantees as well as their ISO 14001 certification.  Eric Anderson has been involved in these audits since 2002, with EPA Systems becoming the prime contractor in 2009.

Japan

Eric Anderson served as Project Manager for a large five-station air toxics, criteria pollutant, and meteorological monitoring project at a site outside of Tokyo, Japan. The 15-month air monitoring program included monitoring for the criteria pollutants (SO2, NOx, CO and O3), meteorological parameters, dioxins and furans, PCBs, PAHs, acid gases, VOCs, aldehydes and ketones, and pesticides.  Ambient monitoring for the discrete parameters was conducted every sixth day.  In addition, selected residential housing areas were monitored quarterly to assess the degree these pollutants were being transported from the ambient to indoor environments. The monitoring program was designed to provide data for conducting a comprehensive health risk assessment. The monitoring cost over $2.7 million and was executed on schedule and budget. Services included project costing, project design, technical direction, data analysis, review and reporting.

Mexico

EPA Systems conducted an ambient air monitoring audit for 10 monitoring stations within the Mexico City Monitoring network.  The project included performance audits of the continuous criteria pollutant analyzers (SO2, NOx, CO and O3) and the continuous particulate matter analyzers.  Additionally, the audit included a systems review of the network to evaluate the systems and procedures used to calibrate and operate the network and whether these were sufficient to ensure adequate data quality.

Abu Dhabi

Eric Anderson was Project Manager for the design, integration, installation and startup of two ambient air and meteorological monitoring stations in Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi Airport expansion and Raha Beach baseline environmental assessment). Each monitoring system included continuous monitoring for O3, SO2, NOx, CO, PM10, and the meteorological parameters wind speed, wind direction, and ambient temperature.

Qatar

Eric Anderson was Project Manager for the installation, startup, and operation of an ambient air and meteorological monitoring station in Al Jamailiyah, Qatar. The system was configured to continuously monitor O3, NOx, methane and non-methane hydrocarbons, and meteorological parameters.  The site was configured to automatically perform daily zero/span, bi-weekly precision checks, and quarterly multipoint (including GPTs) calibrations. Data were used a part of a baseline monitoring program in support of new facility construction.

Eric Anderson performed a several systems and performance audits of an existing air monitoring network in Ras Laffan City, Qatar. The program consisted of evaluating the accuracy of the existing analyzers through a rigorous on-site performance audit, reviewing the existing systems in place for ensuring on-going data quality and making recommendations for upgrades and repairs to the sites. In addition, the audits included evaluating the past six years of collected data for reasonableness and accuracy.

Eric Anderson was the Project Manager for a series of projects for RasGas, located in Ras Laffan Industrial City in the North of Qatar. In 2002, 2006 and 2007, he led the on-site crews performing testing on Ras Gas LNG Trains 1, 2, 3, 4 and the AKG.  Monitoring was conducted for State of Qatar Compliance as well as Vendor Performance. Parameters monitored during all three testing campaigns included sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), excess oxygen (O2), total hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, methane, ethane, methyl and ethyl mercaptans, and volumetric flow rate. The 2007 project included monitoring 35 distinct sources within the four LNG processing trains. Monitoring was conducted by a five man crew working 24-hours a day.  This project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget.

Bahrain

Eric Anderson Project Managed the testing portion of a demonstration Predictive Emission Monitoring System (PEMS) project for Bahrain Oil Company (BaPCO). Project consisted of installing a Pavilion Corporation's Pavilion-8 software solution to predict nitrogen oxides (NOx) and oxygen concentration in a boiler stack exhaust. The project proved that the PEMS could predict emission concentrations to within 5% of actual emission levels as measured by USEPA reference methods.

France

EPA Systems prepared and presented a three-day seminar on Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) for Bureau Veritas (BV). BV was interested in incorporating "Smart LDAR" into their corporate offerings but needed more information on how the US regulations were developed, how emission factors could be modified to estimate mass emissions, and how optical imaging could be considered comparable to the USEPA Method 21 technique current being  used throughout Europe. 

Venezuela

Eric Anderson conducted a week-long air toxics technology transfer seminar for INTEVEP, S.A. in Caracas, Venezuela. Topics covered during the seminar included air toxics monitoring, analytical technologies for monitoring air toxic compounds, and monitoring system siting and logistics. Participants included top INTEVEP officials and Venezuela's Minister of the Environment.

Canada

Eric Anderson was the Project Manager for an eighteen month particulate matter, formaldehyde, and meteorological monitoring program for a Forest Products company in Pembroke, Canada. The project included the development of a custom-designed, time-integrated, wind selective monitoring system. The systems were designed to collect air sample only when winds were directly from the facility.  The project also employed passive deposition samplers to collect and characterize deposited particles using optical microscopy. Data were used by Canadian Ministry of the Environment to determine compliance with Canadian ambient guidelines.

Republic of China (Taiwan)

Eric Anderson drafted the specifications that the Republic of China's (R.O.C.) Environmental Protection Agency used to design their nation-wide CEM network.

India

Eric Anderson conducted a week-long seminar and demonstration project on the use of fugitive emission monitoring techniques (both traditional and optical imaging) and their relation to Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto protocol. Seminar was conducted in Mumbai, India and consisted of a day-long event attended by over 80 participants from India's oil and gas industries, consultancies, and environmental agencies. Following the seminar was three days of demonstration projects at several of India's largest industrial facilities.