ODOUR ESTIMATES
The right insight
Unpleasant odours can present a considerable nuisance in everyday life. To ensure that system operators can be certain that residents will not soon lodge odour complaints, we offer comprehensive odour estimates.
We have just the right insight, the necessary experience and the technical equipment to let you know where odours pose a threat – and in most cases, we also have an idea of how to remedy the situation: we develop efficient solutions for operators and affected residents.
Ensuring that no one gets fed up with your system
The demands of residents for the quality of their living environment are on the rise. As a result, the need for well-founded conclusions on odours problems is growing, starting with the land use planning and authorisations as well as court cases. Here, odour estimates provide important bases for decision-making.
Therefore, odour emissions are projected from odour-relevant system data or agricultural companies (operating times, source levels, number of animals, quantity of exhaust air) and odour-specific data from our extensive database (e.g. measured values and emission factors). Together with site-specific meteorological data, we conduct a propagation calculation to calculate the odour emissions in the system's environment. These odour emissions tell us how often a system is smelled in neighbouring residential homes.
- We as a recognized odour measurement centre for most procedures in accordance with §§ 26 and 28 of the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) and have been carrying out odour examinations for nearly 30 years.
- We have a quality management system that is certified based on DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 and DIN EN 17025.
We can draw on and offer the entire range of measurement and projection technology:
- Odour emission projections based on existing measured values
- Odour emission projections based on propagation calculations
- Assessment of odour impacts based on legal requirements and the current legal practice
We have already prepared odour projections for the most diverse systems, including:
- Foodstuffs and luxury food industry: roasting facilities, breweries, smokehouses, vegetable, meat, and fish processing, bakeries, cereal production, gelatine manufacturing, sugar refineries, and cigarette production companies
- Meat processing industry: slaughterhouses, animal cadaver processing
- Agriculture: agricultural family businesses, intensive animal farming, biogas plants
- Waste management: landfills, waste treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, sorting plants for potential recyclables, composting plants
- Industry: automobile industry, chemical industry, panel plant, pulp and paper plants, rubber processing, sand-lime brick plant
- Solvents and fuels: paint shops, filling stations, printing plants,
- Energy: wood firing, power plants with diverse fuels, wood-burning stoves
There is such a broad range of tasks in odour assessments that the solutions cannot be standardised. The procedure in such examinations is regulated in the Federal Immission Control Act, the State Odour Immissions Guideline (GIRL), and in national and European standards (DIN EN 13725 (olfactometry), VDI 3940 (inspections)).
