Next Generation Emissions Measurements Webinar
About This Webinar
Watch the webinar (Originally presented October 17, 2023)
Industrial and waste management facilities can emit air pollutants and odorous compounds from fugitive leaks, process malfunctions, and area sources that are difficult to predict, quantify, and manage. These sources can produce a range of environmental and life quality impacts and create significant uncertainty and stress for industries, regulators, and fenceline communities.
EPA’s Next Generation Emissions Measurements (NGEM) research program works with a range of partners to develop and test emerging air monitoring tools that can assist facilities in the detection and management of these air pollution sources. NGEM is helping industries reduce emissions and is enabling new measurement-based emissions management and inventory strategies. Lower-cost NGEM tools are now beginning to help fenceline communities better understand the air they breathe. This webinar provides a brief overview of several NGEM techniques that are useful at the intersection of industries and communities. Leak detection and fenceline sensors, mobile monitoring, specialized measurements for air toxics, and the fusion of sensor data with new information tools, such as EPA’s emerging Odor Explore App, will be discussed.
About the Presenters
Eben Thoma, Ph.D.
Dr. Eben Thoma is a Senior Research Physical Scientist with U.S. EPA’s Office of Research and Development. Since joining the EPA in 2003, his duties have focused on the development and application of novel air pollutant emissions measurement technologies. Eben specializes in improving information on difficult-to-measure air pollutant sources where emissions, management strategies, and community impacts are uncertain. In collaboration with stakeholders, Eben leads Agency efforts to develop and validate next generation measurement technologies for hazardous air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions creating significant benefit to public health and the environment.
Rachelle Duvall, Ph.D.
Dr. Rachelle Duvall is an Environmental Engineer with EPA’s Office of Research and Development in Research Triangle Park, NC. She evaluates innovative measurement methods for air pollutants and combines participatory science with these methods to better understand air pollution. Rachelle has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.