What is ambient air monitoring?
Ambient air monitoring encompasses a range of activities from short-term campaigns over a single day through to long-term and permanent air quality sampling – and a range of programs in between.
Monitoring is completed for a variety of reasons, including to establish baseline conditions and determine trends over time, to assess overall air quality compliance due to specific activities or events, and to provide data to assist in identifying air emission sources.
Ambient air monitoring is undertaken by engineers, scientists and trained air quality consultants, such as the expert team at Trinity Consultants Australia.
Who needs ambient air monitoring?
Trinity provides ambient air monitoring services for environmental assessments, compliance reporting and permit applications, among other purposes.
Trinity has undertaken ambient air monitoring for a range of clients and projects including:
- Mines – coal, metalliferous and industrial minerals
- Oil, gas and energy plants
- Quarries, landfill and waste facilities
- Refineries and process plants, batching plants and mills
- Manufacturing
- Transport (roads, railway lines, airports and sea ports)
- Major supporting infrastrucutre developments (e.g. tunnels, busways)
- Residential and mixed use developments – houses, units and mixed
- Retail, educational and commercial developments.
Why Choose Trinity
- Help to identify your air quality requirements
- Experience with a broad range of target compounds
- Decades of practical experience, backed up by engineering and scientific expertise
Trinity capabilities
At Trinity, we offer solutions for diverse air monitoring requirements and have experience with a broad range of target compounds, monitoring equipment and data modelling software.
Target compounds
- Acid gases
- Carbon monoxide (CO)
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Dioxins and furans (PCDD/PCDF)
- Formaldehyde
- Hydrogen sulphide
- Isocyanates
- Metals
- Nitrogen oxides (NOx)
- Odours
- Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
- Pesticides
- Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons
- Semi-volatile organic compounds
- Sulphur oxides (SOx)
- Suspended particulate matter (TSP, PM10, PM2.5, PM1)
- Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
Equipment and facilities
- Wide range of own sampling instrumentation and monitoring equipment
- Expert instrumentation calibration to ensure equipment precision and accuracy
- Purpose-built equipment preparation and sample recovery laboratory
- Wide network of additional instrument suppliers to service complex or rare monitoring requirements (or multiple projects simultaneously)
Ambient air monitoring
- Dust fallout deposition
- Direction dust
- Continuous fine (PM2.5), (PM10) and total particulates
- Filter-based reference monitoring of particulates
- Continuous monitoring of common gases
- Sorption tubes and canister sampling of organics
- Filter and cartridge sampling for dioxins, PAHs and heavy metals
- Ambient odour intensity surveys
- Weather monitoring
- Independent audit of air quality monitoring systems or equipment
Indoor air and occupational modelling
- Fine (PM2.5), (PM10) and total particulates
- Identification of odorous compounds and sources
- Sampling for mould and fungi
- Combustion gases (e.g. CO, CO2, NO2,)
- Heavy metals (e.g. lead, arsenic)
- Volatile organic compounds (e.g. benzene, toluene, xylene)
- Aldehydes
- Air flow and ventilation
Source emission sampling
- Odour from stack, fugitive and area sources
- Velocity and gases
- Coordination of isokinetic sampling of aerosols and semi-volatiles
- Arranging laboratory analysis for chemical and physical properties
Data analysis, interpretation and reports
- Diverse analytical methods to review and interpret data
- Software modelling to help simulate a wide range of scenarios
- Expertise to ensure the models draw relevant and meaningful conclusions
- Data validation and quality assurance
- Reporting to meet regulatory requirements
How we work
At Trinity, we tailor our approach to suit your needs. Our experts will collaborate internally, and with your own project team, to deliver unique and innovative solutions that apply skills and ideas from a range of interelated disciplines.
We work closely with our clients to determine their holistic air quality management needs, and advise on the best combination of monitoring and modelling services.
We also know how to package up our monitoring output into tailored formats and reports for a range of different purposes, be it to suit regulators, local councils, governments, supplementary environmental experts or community and other stakeholders.
Talk to us about your needs today.
