About Clean Air Engineering
Clean Air Engineering is a company built around a principle-- environmental responsibility and economic prosperity go hand in hand. Since 1972 we've helped hundreds of companies around the world realize this essential truth-- sometimes in small ways, sometimes in very substantial ways.
In the process, we developed an unsurpassed reputation for engineering excellence and delivering the highest value to our customers. |
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Services Overview
Excellence has been our tradition for more than a quarter century. At Clean Air Engineering, we work hard to make sure you realize a strong return on your environmental investment.
Clean Air Engineering understands that your environmental management program can greatly influence the profitability of your company. The results of an emissions inventory or testing project are frequently used in making corporate decisions on capital equipment expenditures, process changes and plant modifications. Clean Air has the most experienced and capable Testing Services group in the industry. From stack testing to complicated process optimizations-- Clean Air helps satisfy regulatory agency requirements and adds value to every environmental compliance dollar. |
Supporting Clean Air Engineering's field technicians and consulting professionals is our Analytical Services group. This specialized team of chemists, chemical engineers and environmental engineers performs a variety of qualitative and quantitative laboratory analyses. In addition to the laboratories at our Palatine, IL facility, we can provide dedicated laboratory services at your site. Click our Analytical Services link to see how.
Can't figure out why your NOx analyzer is on the blink? Troubleshooting a problem with a new instrument? Need to train a group of technicians how to perform a particular test method? Installing a new CEM system? Our On-Site Technical services group can help!
Clean Air Engineering also puts its knowledge to work for you with comprehensive consulting and permitting services. We have the industry know-how and hands on experience to help you streamline your process, compose your Title V permit and maximize your chances of breezing through compliance audits. We get as involved as you need us to be. We'll guide your project from start to finish-- or help out at key intervals during a crucial process optimization. Our services are flexible, professional and discrete.
Clean Air Engineering Training Services. Those who know-- DO teach. At Clean Air, the same engineers, technicians and process consultants that help you with CEM installation, process optimization and permit applications are available to run customized training programs. Hands on equipment training, regulation changes, new calibration methods-- our Palatine, IL facility is available for your training needs, or we can bring the training to your facility. Take a look!
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"Our customers are under pressure from state and federal regulatory requirements that require the collection of volumes of emissions data. Data collection is not a part of their core business-- their expertise is in making the products they sell. Our expertise is in helping to manage data and compliance issues for our customers."
-- Bill Walker, Clean Air Engineering President |
Clean Air Engineering has just finished planning a comprehensive Data Management program to help you automate your data collection and processing.
People are our most valuable resource-- we pride ourselves on the experience, skill and technical knowledge of our employees. Take advantage of our tradition of excellence by putting Clean Air Engineering people to work for you.
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Boiler/Combustion Services |
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Emissions Reduction, Optimization, Compliance Strategy and Field Testing
Whether you are faced with the challenges of multi-pollutant control imposed by the proposed Interstate Air Quality and Utility Mercury Reduction Rules , the Industrial Boiler MACT or increasing boiler efficiencies or reducing greenhouse gas emissions put, CleanAir's over 30 years of delivering enhanced environmental and financial performance to work for you.
Coupled with this experience is a staff of over 100 professionals with boiler and air emissions testing, combustion, air pollution control technologies, engineering, regulatory, and analytical experience, committed to developing and implementing cost effective solutions to air pollution and combustion problems of fossil fuel, MSW and hazardous waste fired boilers.
Click on the blue words below to learn more about our boiler / combustion services:
In addition to the above services, CleanAir offers a variety of other capabilities in collaboration with our partners in areas such as computational fluid dynamic modeling (CFD Modeling), sequential process optimization, or corrosion monitoring.
From baseline to compliance, CleanAir performs field testing and process design, oversees equipment specification and installation, provides startup and system optimization, as well as ongoing operational support, training and reporting. We don't just identify problems, we provide solutions.
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Keeping up to date with new sampling methods, equipment changes, legislation and regulations is a challenge. Clean Air Engineering helps you meet that challenge with our training programs. From new legislation to repairing your CEM analyzer, our expert consultants, engineers and technicians take their expertise into the classroom on a variety of air management subjects.
Clean Air Engineering training courses and seminars are available for presentation at our Palatine, IL facility located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. We can also bring our trainers to your facility–along with all of the presentation |
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Contact a Clean Air Engineering training coordinator for details with email srees@cleanair.com.
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| Sampling and Monitoring Workshops | Equipment Training | Permitting and Compliance Seminars | Online Training Videos | Special Training Services |
Sampling and Monitoring Workshops:
With over 30 years of conducting source tests around the world, Clean Air Engineering has experience with a wide variety of sampling and testing methods. Our engineers are available to teach any of methods we perform to your technical staff. See our testing services page to learn more.
Compliance Testing
- ASME Power Test Code Test Programs
- Hazardous Air Pollutant Testing
- Organic sampling for dioxin/furans, volatile/semivolatiles and BTEX
- Three-dimensional Flow Modeling
- Continuous Emissions Monitoring
- On-site gas chromatography and GC mass-spectrometry
- Fourier Transform Infrared Testing
Process Optimization
- Gas turbine and coal-fired boiler start-up performance guarantee testing
- ASME boiler and air-heater efficiency testing
- HCl scrubber retrofits and troubleshooting
- Thermal oxidizer optimization
- VOC capture and removal
- Electrostatic precipitator optimization and gas flow distribution studies
- SCR/SNCR ammonia slip determination
- FGD performance guarantee testing
- SO 2 to SO 3 conversion efficiency for flue gas conditioning
Data collection and reporting sessions can be included with any of the testing/sampling method classes we offer.
Equipment Training:
"If a customer wants to learn how to repair a product, we can send them a technician who can walk them through maintenance problems, replacement parts and instrument repair. We can also send the same technician out to teach a whole classroom how to repair an instrument– we know what we're doing, and that makes teaching easy."
- Art Dean
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To complement our sampling and testing instruction, we provide training for all equipment Clean Air Engineering rents and sells.
- Equipment Installation
- CEM System Installation
- Instrument Preventative Maintenance
- CEM System Preventative Maintenance
- Equipment Troubleshooting and Repair
- Data Acquisition Systems
- Meteorological Instrumentation
Air Emissions Permitting and Compliance Seminars:
Knowledge of state and federal legislation and regulations is at the heart of any air quality management program. With the passage of the Clean Air Act (CAA) amendments of 1990, the EPA now regulates industries previously untouched by air quality laws. Compliance with the CAA requires knowledge.
Clean Air Engineering consultants know which specific provisions of the CAA affect your operation. CleanAir offers basic seminars on the CAA and state air quality laws, but we can tailor our seminars specifically to your industry.
- Title V operating permits
- State operating permits
- Inspection Preparation
- Industry specific training on the Clean Air Act
- MACT Compliance
- Title V- Environmental Management System Training
- Legislative and regulatory updates
- Annual Emissions Inventory Reporting
Online Training and Instruction:
Instruction and training videos for common equipment installation and set-up procedures are now online! Check out our Online Training page. (All training videos are in Quicktime format-- 28.8 baud modem or faster required.)
Special Training Services:
Make life easy for your trainers and HR personnel. Let CleanAir help you create successful air quality employee training programs. Our Clean Air Engineering Consulting Team will work with your company to develop training guides for air quality QA/QC, Title V Environmental Management Systems, and CAA awareness programs.
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Overview
Clean Air Engineering has the largest inventory of gas monitoring equipment in the industry and we are adding new products all the time. Our over 30 years of experience in meeting and exceeding customer needs means we deliver the highest level of service and value. Our commitment to continuous improvement and product quality defines us as the leaders in our industry. Let us become your air quality equipment company.
Clean Air Express equipment is developed by field engineers for field-testing. Clean Air Express brings over 30 years of testing experience to the design and manufacture of environmental sampling equipment. Continuous input from our field services group, and |
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Clean Air Instrument Rental provides individual instruments, wet method trains and CEM Systems for rent where you need them, when you need them. Check out their online catalog! Renting calibration gas with your equipment? Clean Air Engineering now has a library of Calibration Gas Certifications online!
Clean Air Engineering calibration services include wind tunnel calibrations for EPA methods 2F and 2G, making our calibration services the most comprehensive in the air quality industry. We also offer a variety of EPA protocol and non-protocol gases for rent, and our online calibration gas certificates means having your important calibration paperwork a few mouse clicks away.
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Does it seem like your equipment breaks down whenever your repair technician is on vacation? Let Clean Air Engineering repair services help you with your equipment repair emergencies-- or with regular repairs and maintenance. Our rush repairs and flat rate estimates are the best in the business for service and quality. Or for unusual jobs where regular equipment won't do, Clean Air can provide custom equipment suited to the situation at hand.
Whatever your needs, Clean Air Engineering has the equipment for testing, monitoring, calibration and data analysis. Let us become your full-service air quality equipment company! Browse our online information. |
If you have questions, you can e-mail them to us at srees@cleanair.com or give us a call at 1-800-627-0033. Hope to hear from you soon!
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Our Instrument Rental team offers a diverse line of gas monitors for source, ambient and site surveillance applications. A variety of industrial hygiene and personal survey tools are available, as well as data acquisition systems and calibration materials. The current inventory of sampling and analysis equipment is valued in excess of six million Euro. New products are constantly being added to meet market demands.
The following equipment and services are available :
• Source/ambient air monitoring instruments
• Instrumentation repair
• Stack gas sampling equipment
• Data acquisition and recording
• Air flow measurements
• Calibration gas
• Temporary CEM systems
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Stack Testing Services Overview
Quality, experience, commitment – Clean Air Engineering's Stack Testing team provides professional stationary source emission testing and ambient air-quality measurement. We satisfy your facility's regulatory and permit requirements for emissions testing and can provide vital process evaluation data, performance optimization services and guarantee testing.
Clean Air Engineering has been an innovative leader in source emissions testing since 1972. Our goal is to deliver high quality data at the lowest overall cost. When looking for emissions measurement solutions that go beyond the EPA Reference Method approach, our engineers and scientists will design the right program for you. From air toxics to fine particulates and from FTIR to on-site gas chromatography, put CleanAir's more than 30 years experience to work for you. We don't just identify problems. We find solutions.
CleanAir Stack Testing & Other Testing Services
CleanAir performs the full spectrum of testing services to all types of industries, worldwide. These services include:
- Compliance Testing
- Permit Compliance Testing
- Trial Burn Support & Emission Sampling
- MACT Compliance
- Visible Opacity Observations
- Title III, IV and V Compliance Determinations
- Combustion/Control Device Optimization
- Gas turbine emissions testing
- SCR tuning and guarantee performance testing
- Ammonia Slip Evaluations
- ASME boiler and air heater efficiency testing
- NOx Reduction Programs
- Basic Oxygen Furnace emissions collection system efficiency testing
- Electrostatic precipitator optimization and gas flow distribution studies
- FGD performance guarantee testing
- Baghouse collection efficiency
- Thermal oxidizer optimization
- Scrubber efficiency determinations
- Emissions Studies and Specialized Testing
- Destruction/Capture Efficiency Studies
- Destruction Efficiency Testing
- Total Temporary Enclosures Certification
- Expert Support
- Stack Sampling Training
- Industry and Agency Liaison
- Stack Testing Oversight
- Continuous Emission Monitoring System Certification Programs
- CEMS Relative Accuracy Test Audits (RATA)
- PEMS Certification
- Cylinder Gas Audit
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Equipment
CleanAir's testing groups draw on a total equipment inventory of nearly six million dollars. We benefit from synergistic relationships between our equipment rentals group (CleanAir Instrument Rental) and our equipment manufacturing division (CleanAir Express).
Mobile CEM and Laboratory Facilities
Continuous Emissions Monitoring Equipment Specifications
Customized Source Testing Equipment Specifications
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Our laboratories are staffed by professionals who employ comprehensive quality control measures to assure the highest quality results, guaranteed.
We're commited to serving our customers with the highest value possible. Our clients can contact Clean Air Analytical Services anytime and can receive their results in a short turnaround period without rush charges.
Our unique experience, gained from over 30 years of environmental sampling and analysis, has placed us among the leaders in our field. We continuously refine existing methods while developing new test procedures to meet the ever-changing needs of our business and industrial clients.
Clean Air Laboratory Facility Overview
Clean Air's laboratories are located at our corporate headquarters in Palatine. These labs are housed in a custom building incorporating state-of-the-art laboratory features including a specially designed climate control system for optimal instrument performance and a computerized security system to prevent unauthorized entry.
List of Services and Prices
Clean Air Analytical Services offers an extensive range of qualitative and quantitative services outlined in state and federal test methods.Go to the links below for details and pricing. To see only the prices, go to the complete price list. See our pricing policy to get fast results without rush charges.
NOTE: Most organic, inorganic, gravimetric, and spectroscopic test methods require an applicable blank (solvent, filter, etc.) for a batch of samples. Blanks are charged at the same rate as the samples.
Our capabilities include:
Chromatography and Wet Methods
Particle Characterization
- Laboratory Resistivity Determinations
- Particle Size Distribution ( Bahco..... Graseby-Anderson.... Sieve)
- Ash mineral analysis and loss-on-ignition (LOI)
- Short proximate, ultimate coal analysis
- Soluble sulfate analysis on ash
- Computer Model ESP Performance,Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), x-ray diffraction, designed resistivity tests, and consultation work
Gravimetric Analysis
Spectroscopy
Coating and Ink Analysis
Rush Analysis Pricing
Reports available as Adobe ® Acrobat ® PDF files
CleanAir can provide lab reports and Certificates of Analysis in Portable Document Format (PDF). Sent rapidly over e-mail, this means reporting is more secure and cleaner in appearance than faxed reports.
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"Consulting and permitting is the integrating service we provide–it pulls together all of the other things that we do. Essentially, when we work with a client on a consulting basis, we're not trying to sell them stack testing or rent equipment. We're trying to find what their problem is and the best way to solve it."
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With federal and state environmental regulations hovering over your industry–hiring a consultant may seem like having one more person telling you what you should or shouldn't do. At Clean Air Engineering, our consultants are backed with experts in field testing, data analysis, equipment design, data management and training–we don't just tell you what you need to do to comply, we have the resources and experience to help you do it. We know the ins and outs of permitting and compliance issues for dozens of industries including:
- Cement Production
- Electrical Utilities
- Chemical Manufacturing
- Natural Gas Processing
- Petroleum Refining
- Pulp and Paper Manufacturing
- Waste Treatment and Disposal
- Communications and Electronics
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- Fuel Combustion Processes
- Metals Refining and Processing
- Pharmaceutical Processing
- Surface Coating
- Agricultural Processing
- Glass Manufacturing
- Mining
- Semi-Conductor Manufacturing
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Compliance is only part of the picture. Process problems cost money. Clean Air Engineering consulting services will reduce those costs-- from simple process tune-ups to complicated process problems-- improving process efficiency and your bottom line. And we're not afraid to team up with other industries and disciplines in order to help develop the process improvements you need. We specialize in several types of environmental consulting including:
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"We solved a mist problem for a customer who had water droplets forming inside a stack where there was SO 2 in the gas stream–the resulting sulfuric acid was eating away at the interior of their stack. We designed special mist eliminators to solve their problem–but had no experience working with plastics or injection molding. We successfully partnered with a plastic manufacturer to develop the injection mold forms. These "mist eliminators" are now a regular product offering."
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Process Consulting
In many cases, emissions represent lost product or raw materials. Data from a properly designed emissions monitoring program gives you the information you need to improve process efficiency while maximizing throughput. Clean Air Engineering process engineers have the experience and capability to evaluate and modify process operations in response to your need to:
- Improve products and production rate
- Reduce downtime
- Lower costs
- Determine process limits
- React to product and raw material changes
- Select and purchase equipment
- Upgrade or modify equipment to extend operating life
- Inventory emission sources
- Improve and streamline pollution control equipment
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Supporting our consulting and permitting services, we also offer Equipment Rental, Emissions Testing, On-site Technical Assistance, Analytical Services and Training Services.
Clean Air Engineering provides the most comprehensive air-quality management services in the industry. To inquire about any of Clean Air Engineering's consulting or permitting services, contact us by e-mail at Clean Air Consulting or call us at 1-800-627-0033. |
Compliance Consulting
No consulting firm can guarantee you'll always be in compliance–anyone who tells you that is just blowing smoke. Let our auditors evaluate your data and systems– before the EPA does. Environmental compliance is filled with "gray areas" where regulations need interpretation. Clean Air consultants are experts in EMS development, data management, and in national and international permitting requirements. Our services include:
- Air Quality Management
- Compliance Assurance Audit Programs
- Continuous Compliance Planning
- Accidental Release Evaluations
- CEM System Certifications and Audits
- Expert Witness Testimony
- Title V-- Credible Evidence Evaluation
- International and Maquiladora Regulation Evaluation
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Supporting our consulting and permitting services, we also offer Equipment Rental, Field Services, On-site Technical Assistance, Analytical Services and Training Services.
Clean Air Engineering provides the most comprehensive air-quality management services in the industry. To inquire about any of Clean Air Engineering's consulting or permitting services, contact us by e-mail at Clean Air Consulting or call us at 1-800-627-0033. |
Permitting
Clean Air Engineering will assist your permitting obligations with everything from full service permit preparation to independent permit reviews. When emissions standards are too severe, Clean Air Consultants will assist in regulatory agency negotiations to improve operational flexibility at your facility. We also prepare annual emissions reports and perform permit consolidations.
- Title V Operating Permits (Major Source)
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- Federally Enforceable State Operating Permits (Minor Source) (FESOP)
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- Air Quality Construction Permits
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- Industry-Specific General Operating Permits
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- Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD)
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In addition to our in-house laboratory facilities, CleanAir has a fleet of trailers and trucks that can provide a dedicated, fully-equipped on-site lab for wet chemistry, gas chromatography, FTIR and Continuous Emission Monitoring (CEM) systems. Regardless of location, our mobile laboratories can be transported to your testing site.
A dedicated wet lab speeds sample turnaround time and virtually eliminates problems due to sample degradation or loss.
Delays resulting from sample train contamination or overloading absorbing solutions are minimized due to rapid detection of these problems while the test crew is still deployed at the testing location.
In addition, air toxics can be analyzed using an on-line system such as a gas chromatograph or gas monitoring system.
Other benefits gained from real-time data include:
• Recovering valuable materials lost during the process
• More accurate emission inventories and factors
• Optimizing process emissions to achieve top performance
• Pinpointing contaminant sources in a multi-source facility
• Improving control of air quality in the workplace
Gas Chromatography
On-line gas chromatography is used to generate real-time compound speciated data. Our Analytical Services team has a wide variety of expertise in direct-sampling and quantifying specific compound emissions using gas chromatography. Various compounds are speciated and quantified using the following test methods:
Method 15
Utilized to measure the emissions of reduced sulfur compounds from tail gas control units of sulfur recovery plants, hydrogen sulfide in fuel gases and where specified in other applicable subparts.
Method 16
This method determines total reduced sulfur compounds from recovery furnaces, lime
kilns and smelt dissolving tanks at kraft pulp mills and fuel gas combustion devices at
petroleum refineries.
Method 18
Speciated gaseous organics emitted from industrial sources are determined by this
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Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy
Clean Air has the capability to perform Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy for the analysis of various gaseous emissions from stationary sources. The test methods using FTIR for analysis are Method 320 and 321. We have the necessary field experience with the FTIR as well as the knowledge and skill to create new FTIR standards, test protocols and methods.
Method 320
This method determines compound-specific concentrations in a multi-component vapor
phase sample in a closed-path gas cell. Specifically, organic or inorganic compounds
which absorb energy in the mid-infrared spectral region (about 400 to 4000 cm-1). A computer program is used to analyze infrared spectra and report compound concentrations.
Method 321
This method determines hydrogen chloride (HCl) concentrations in a multi-component
vapor phase sample in a closed-path gas cell. Specifically inorganic compounds which
absorb energy in the mid-infrared spectral region (about 400 to 4000 cm-1). Computer
software is used to analyze infrared spectra and report HCl concentrations. Request Further Product Information
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