Scope Of Enviroscan Services
Background
Enviroscan is established in South Australia as a NATA accredited environmental testing facility for air emissions, waste water effluent and contaminated soils.
Enviroscan was set up in 1988 by a small group of experienced scientists to meet industry demand for an independent testing facility, both innovative and capable. Supervising staff (Barry Severne and Roger Fancett) have many years of environmental testing and expertise in industrial chemistry.
Our on-going objective is to provide quality testing and reporting by skilled teams on time and within budget.
Industry Experience
Enviroscan clients in Australia, New Zealand and PNG include the following industries:
Oil refining and Fuel terminals |
Power stations, coal, gas, diesel |
Cement works |
Automotive |
Mines and mineral processing |
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Smelters |
Foundries |
Asphalt plants |
Timber and pulp mills |
Abbottoirs and Rendering |
Poultry sheds |
Food manufacture / processing |
Hospitals |
Wineries |
Waste water treatment |
Hazardous waste |
Landfills |
Aircraft, military and civil |
Ships and workboats |
Staff Skills and Quality
We ensure that our people have the appropriate skills and experience to provide clients with high quality test results.
All staff members are involved in ongoing training programmes including safety and regulatory issues.
Enviroscan has a quality system accredited by NATA to AS ISO/IEC 17025:2005 with documentation for all procedures and policies. Each sampling team includes a NATA signatory on-site to ensure NATA quality is maintained from sample collection to test report.
Safety awareness is emphasised on all sites to maintain an incident-free record.
Test Methods
Enviroscan has NATA accreditation for a wide range of test protocols including standard USEPA, Australian Standard AS, SA EPA and NIOSH test methods.
Key methods are summarized below.
| Particulate matter | USEPA method 5, method 17, AS 4323.2 |
| PM10 PM2.5 | USEPA method 201A |
| Metals | USEPA method 29 |
| Dioxins and Furans | USEPA method 23A |
| Odour | AS 4323.3 |
| Volatile Organic Compounds(VOC) | USEPA method 18 |
| Nitrogen oxides(NOx) | USEPA method 7E, SA EPA method 03.06 |
| Carbon monoxide | SA EPA 03.14 |
| Total organic compounds(TOC) | USEPA method 25A |
| Aldehydes and ketones | USEPA method 0010 |
| Semi volatile organic compounds(SVOC) | USEPA method 0011 |
Enviroscan maintain three portable CEMS units (Horiba PG250) for logging combustion gases (NOx CO SO2 CO2 O2) at 1m intervals for periods of 4 to 98 hours. These CEMS have USEPA approval and use NDIR and chemiluminescence sensors with NATA certified calibration gases.
Foxboro Flame IonisiationAnalyser provides VOC logging at 15s intervals.
Odour monitoring surveys
Enviroscan was the first laboratory in South Australia to gain NATA accreditation for odour testing to AS 4323.3-2001.
Odour sampling methods include fluxhood, fugitive and point source sampling.
Ambient odour is determined in the field by an operator screened for n-butanol sensitivity using a Nasal Ranger instrument. Results are plotted on suitable basemaps with wind speed and direction to map the odour plume downwind from the source area. This form of ‘ground truthing’ is used to provide an independent assessment of in-house Ausplume or TAPM dispersion modelling.
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