Emission Monitoring Systems

The Emission Monitoring Systems market research study delivers current market analysis plus a five year market and technology forecast. The study is available in multiple editions including worldwide, all regions, and most major countries.

Push to Sustainability Drives Growth in Emission Monitoring Systems

The push to sustainability and the enforcement of increasingly stringent environmental laws are driving growth in the market for emission monitoring systems. ARC’s report on the global emission monitoring systems market includes device-specific segmentations such as system type, revenue category, intelligence, component type, application type, measure variable, transmission method, sales channel, and customer type. Emission regulations continue to narrow emission limits, requiring plants to measure increasingly lower concentrations of pollutants. Furthermore, regulatory agencies, especially those in developed nations, have been continuously adding monitoring regulations on various new components. One example of this is new regulations on mercury emissions. For a long time, regulatory agencies in many nations did not require monitoring of mercury emissions. As the awareness about mercury’s harmful effects has increased, however, many countries have started regulating mercury emissions. Under the MATS, the US EPA requires power plants to monitor their mercury emission levels. Many other countries have also started regulating mercury emission levels in various industries.

Emission Monitoring Systems Strategic Issues

In addition to providing a five-year market forecast, the emission monitoring systems market research provides detailed quantitative current market data and addresses key strategic issues as follows.

Deploy Industrial IoT or Industry 4.0

End user organizations continue to face a shortfall of qualified personnel, as fewer new workforce entries perceive process automation, process engineering, chemical engineering, or similar technical fields as attractive career paths. Furthermore, it can take up to two years to train a new hire effectively in the field of automation, and once trained, it may be difficult to retain that individual. This “brain drain” is a major challenge for end user organizations, and advanced technology and automation such as Industrial IoT can play a key role in filling this skills gap. 

Forward-looking suppliers are investing to bring Industrial IoT to the field device level. Various Industrial IoT capabilities, such as remote monitoring and remote services, can help establish a more collaborative relationship between end users and suppliers. Industrial IoT solutions are now available for horizontal integration along the value creation chain, for consistent engineering from planning to maintenance, and for vertical integration from the field to the control level. 

However, Industrial IoT may not be available directly for two-wire devices, due to the high electricity consumption for the transmitter. End users can leverage the expertise of suppliers to help manage plant assets across their entire lifecycle; suppliers can go beyond being just automation providers, enhance their overall project revenues, and enjoy long-term revenue streams through customer service relationships along with integration of OPC UA, condition monitoring, and predictive maintenance functionality.

Set Up a Complete List of Parameters to Be Monitored

Environmental control authorities have certain criteria like the number and the nature of the components to be continuously monitored and reported, which have a strong impact on the choice of a suitable CEMS solution. Therefore, one of the major steps is to set up a complete list of parameters to be monitored, together with the corresponding emission limit values or requested measuring ranges. 

There are many contents which are supposed to be measured or monitored most of the time. For example: At most of the stacks, the temperature and pressure of the flue gas, as well as the oxygen content, must be observed for reference and scaling purposes. Often, the moisture content must also be measured in the flue gas, e.g., in order to calculate dry gas concentration values from wet gas measurements and vice versa. 

The monitoring requirements for the gaseous compounds in each site can differ significantly, due to several reasons. Like in some sites, major flue gas components to be measured can be O2, CO2, CO, and NO, whereas in other sites it may be required to measure SO2, and unburned hydrocarbons as the sum of volatile organic compounds (VOC) as well. Hence the total number of gaseous components to be monitored by an EMS may range from fewer than 5 to more than 15.

For covering all monitoring requirements, EMS solutions will always consist of a combination of technologies. For example, some technologies can cover a certain number of components and some specific components; and besides the technology mix, the measuring approach can also differ. Many parameters can be measured in-situ, directly in the stack. If more than a certain number of gases are to be measured, an extractive multi-component technology may then be considered the better choice.

Seek EMS with Advanced Solutions Capabilities

Today, many users want more than what the traditional system provides. Users want centralized data storage with contextualized global data accessibility for all levels of their organizations to enable the highest collaboration and effectiveness. There are changes in the way the leading users are deploying new-generation smart EMS, which features smart self-inspection, smart operation, and maintenance and distributes real-time data to all levels of the organization through workflow and other complementary technologies.