New update: CALPUFF course in Santiago, Chile 3rd March 2014

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calpuff course in the seminar of olores.orgOlores.org is aware of the multiple issues and questions of odour modellers every day. There is a wide-ranging discussion about CALPUFF modelling with special focus on:

  • Complex terrain
  • Coastal regions/ land-water boundaries
  • Overwater transport
  • Inhomogeneous dispersion conditions
  • Stagnation (99% of odor complaints)
  • Flow reversals
  • Recirculation
  • Subhourly data management.
  • Selection of proper averaging times.
  • Peak to mean factors.

Inscription is already complete for the CALPUFF course. However, you may send us an email, in case we have the chance to include more people.

 

 

Exponent’s Atmospheric Sciences staff has experience serving a wide range of industrial and government clients around the world. Their scientists and engineers have been influential in the evolution of air quality modelling, and have developed or contributed to five of the seven U.S. EPA models recommended in the Guideline on Air Quality Models. Most notable of these is the CALPUFF model, an advanced non-steady-state meteorological and air quality modelling system recommended by many regulatory agencies worldwide as the preferred model for assessing near-field complex meteorological conditions and long-range transport applications.

Joseph Scire, CCM is a Principal Scientist at Exponent and an author of the CALPUFF model (Scire et al., 2000). He will provide training on the CALPUFF modelling system. He has more than 35 years experience in the design, development, and application of research and regulatory air quality models. He has taught more than 80 training courses over the last 18 years on the CALPUFF model for government agencies, private industry, and universities around the world.

Jenny Barclay is an independent atmospheric scientist. With 21 years of experience in dispersion modelling, Jenny was part of the Atmospheric Sciences group that developed the CALPUFF model and she is expert in odour modelling with CALPUFF.

The program of the course is the following:

 

 

Introduction to Odour Modelling

Course Outline

Ecometrika Odour Management, Santiago, Chile

March 3, 2014

Instructors: Joe Scire and Jenny Barclay

Monday, March 3: Morning

MODELLING TECHNIQUES (8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.)

    1. Overview of the CALPUFF non-steady-state modelling system

    2. Special factors in odour modelling

1.2.1 Light wind speed dispersion/stagnation conditions

1.2.2 Steady-State Index

1.2.3 Complex dispersion conditions

1.2.4 Use of sub-hourly meteorological data

Morning Break (10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.)

    1. CALPUFF software system

1.3.1 Model components, Graphical User Interface

1.3.2 Forecasting system for odour problems

1.3.3 Forensic modelling to diagnose source contributions

    1. Demonstration of the CALPUFF software

Lunch (12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.)

Monday, March 3: Afternoon

ODOUR MODELLING (1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)

    1. Odour Properties and Effects

    2. Odour Assessment

    3. Olfactometry and Sampling

    4. Odour Regulation

    5. Dispersion Model Inputs and Emissions

    6. Odour Modelling

2.6.1 Sub-hourly Data

2.6.2 Peak to Mean ratios

    1. Interpretation of Results and Complaint Analysis

Afternoon Break (3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.)

HANDS‐ON ODOUR COMPUTER EXERCISES (3:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.)

3.0 Application of CALPUFF to an Odour Problem

3.1 Subhourly Odour Case Study

 Download de program here

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The course will take place at the facilities of Ecometrika in Av. Amèrico Vespucio 2296, El Cortijo. Conchalí, Santiago, Chile. The cost of this one-day course is €225 EUR (VAT excluded). To register to the course, please contact us. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the course, in case there are not enough attendees. Shall this happen, we will refund the full cost of the course.

For this introductory course there is no need to buy expensive Graphical User Interface (GUI) or have special software requirements. At the end of the course you will have a working copy of the CALApps GUI for free for your use. You do not need to buy model software or pay for additional data for this course either.

Please note that although the CALApps GUI is provided free, it does depend on third party software (Surfer graphics software by Golden Software, Inc.) to produce vector and contour plots. Download a working demo of Surfer and see videos for training on this software. A licensed copy of Surfer is required for CALApps to produce graphics, but not to set up or run the CALPUFF modelling components.

 

 

 

 

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Carlos is the editor-chief of olores.org and has been in the odour world since 2001. Since then, Carlos has attended over 90 conferences in odour management, both national and international and authored a few papers on the subject. He has also organized a few international meetings and courses. Carlos owns a small company named Ambiente et Odora (AEO). He spends his free time with his wife and his twins, Laura and Daniel, and of course, writing on olores.org.

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   This study presents two odour impact assessment methodologies for a new waste management plant. The Online Field Inspection Manager (OFIM) has been used to establish the zero-situation according to the VDI/DIN3940.

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Keywords : OFIM, VDI/DIN3940, Calpuff, Zero-situation assessment

 

Abstract

This study presents two odour impact assessment methodologies for a new waste management plant. The Online Field Inspection Manager (OFIM) has been used to establish the zero-situation according to the VDI/DIN3940. At the same time, the odour impact was also modelled using Calpuff dispersion modelling.

 

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First International Seminar of Odours in the Environment, Santiago, Chile, 4-5 March 2014

seminario cuad  This time, olores.org is organizing a Seminar about Odours in the Environment, the 4th and 5th of March 2014 in Santiago, Chile. This event is officially backed by the Environmental Ministry of Chile and it is sponsored by the Chilean company Ecometrika as a main sponsor and the companies St. Croix Sensory Inc., Odournet, Hexacover A/S and the International Association of Applied Olfactometry (IAAO) as official sponsors.

   If you have anything to say about environmental odour management you are more than welcome to this event!

   We are working to organize the first International Seminar in Chile focused on odour management. To this effect, we open the inscription period to present abstracts for this Seminar. We are working hard to make this event happen, it is not the first time we organize a conference, but it IS the first time we make it International.  We hope you enjoy this event and we expect your contribution to this event so that we can all share your experience and knowledge.

   The Seminar will take place in the Salon Auditorio Campus Bellavista of the Andrés Bello University, placed in Bellavista Nº 0121  Providencia, Santiago.

   Check the official website of the event here:seminar qr en

http://www.olores.org/Seminar2014

 

Provisional Calendar

  • Call for interest in participate: 30th October 2013
  • Call for abstracts: until 30th of November 2013
  • Provisional Program: 3rd December 2013.
  • Final Program: 3rd February 2014
  • Opening of inscription in the Seminar: 03/12/2013 to 20/02/2014.

Official Language

   Official language will be both Spanish and English. There will be direct translation to both languages during the event.

   We got many questions about the official language of this First Seminar in Odour Management, and here we have to say that you should not worry if you have no idea of Spanish, cause we have organized a complete service of translation for this conference.

   No need to know Spanish if you plan to attend this International Seminar, but hey, you might find out some parts in Spanish! Do not worry, as we will be translating all the documentation. We will also ask to the authors who write in Spanish to translate their papers to English, but we are all running out of time, so you might not find all the papers translated to English.

   In any case, the abstracts of the papers will be in both English and Spanish.

Program

   Check the updated program here.

More information

   For more information, you can contact us to the email seminario2014Chile@olores.org

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   For assistants from Chile you may register using the following Registration Form.

   For attendance from countries different than Chile check here: http://www.olores.org/Register

 

Backed by:Sponsored by:
Ministerio Medio Ambiente Chile ecometrica sponsor stcroix sponsorship
odournet sponsor hexacover sponsor
iaao sponsor  

 

 

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Odour legislation in Chile

The following article describes and analyzes the current state of the legislation about odour management in Chile. In this manner, several legislative acts are revised including the Norm of Emision control of foul odours. This norm, came to front of the Chilean legislative board to control odour emission in paper pulp factories but it is not useful for other industries. In addition, the experiences in Chile related with the dynamic olfactometry and the German Norm VDI 3940 are described.

 

Read more in spanish here. + read more.

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