Air Resources

Environmental legislation changes frequently. Remaining compliant can be difficult, time consuming and expensive. In addition, whenever a process change is made, or new equipment is installed, a facility's existing environmental compliance status can be affected. SNC-Lavalin's environmental experts have over 40 years of experience in helping clients maintain or achieve environmental compliance for their operations. Services include:

· Certificate of approval / permit applications

· Air emission inventory compilation

· Compliance status assessments

· Greenhouse gas reduction / climate change

· Air quality modelling

· Environmental baseline studies

· Evaluation, equipment design or process modification to reduce emissions

· Source testing, ambient air monitoring and fugitive emmissions monitoring

· Regulatory report preparation

· Indoor air quality studies and industrial hygiene services

· Expert testimony and evidence

Areas of experience include:

· Mine installations

· Pulp and paper mills

· Automobile and parts manufacturers

· Fertilizer plants

· Plating facilities

· Municipal solid waste landfills

· Acid plants

· Tire manufacturers

· Quarrying and aggregate processors

· Refineries

· Cogeneration and power plants

· Cement manufacturing

· Municipal solid water and biomedical waste incinerators

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Projects

Air: Characterization of priority pollutants for the Triunfo petrochemical site, Brazil. Implementation of a fugitive emissions control program in European factories, Belgium

Climate Change: Study of aluminum production techniques that reduce/ eliminate greenhouse gases, Canada.

Feasibility study of a Quebec Centre of Excellence on Climate Change, Canada

China Cleaner Production Project for Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) - assessment of Chinese industry, in a number of sectors, to find ways to make production practices more environmentally friendly. Project involves environmental assessment, technology transfer and writing of best practices manuals.

CO2 removal model for Alberta Research Council - developed a conceptual design and computer model to simulate operation and economics of the surface facilities required to capture CO2 from coal fired power plant flue gas, compress it, pipeline it and inject it into coal beds. The model includes facilities to recover and treat coal bed methane.

CO2 capture cost evaluation for Canadian Energy Research Institute - evaluation of costs associated with recovery and transportation of CO2 from a wide variety of Western Canadian sources.

Sequestration of CO2 project for Canadian Clean Power Coalition - series of conceptual designs to transport CO2 captured from power stations and inject it into a variety of sinks, including oil reservoirs and coal seams.

Air Quality Assessment: Assessment of potential particulates, odour and gases from landfill and transfer station operations for a southwestern Ontario county

Interim Waste Authority: Assessment of potential ambient air quality impacts associated with vehicle traffic, materials storage and on-site operations at two proposed landfills, using the Fugitive Dust Model, Canada

Emissions Testing: Testing exhaust stack of a 16 tonne secondary aluminum casting furnace during three separate processes. Results utilized in compilation of a facility emission inventory and subsequent air dispersion modelling, Canada.

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