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Odours

Odour assessment and management helps to reduce local nuisance and enhance enjoyment. It is an important part of the planning and permitting process.  

Air Quality Consultants has over thirty years’ experience in helping organisations monitor and manage odours and meet their regulatory requirements.  Our approaches include odour risk assessments, complaint data reviews, field odour surveys by trained assessors (sniff tests), Best Available Technique (BAT) assessments, odour management plans, and quantitative dispersion modelling, among other bespoke services.

Our services support operators with odour management and environmental permitting, as well as assessments for developers seeking planning permission in relation to encroachment of proposed development on existing odorous processes.

Industries we work with include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • wastewater treatment works and pumping stations

  • composting facilities

  • biofuels and anaerobic digestion facilities

  • waste handling and transfer stations

  • waste treatment facilities and energy from waste sites

  • rendering of animal by-products

  • intensive livestock activities and slurry storage and handling

  • food production and animal feed

  • commercial kitchens

  • various industrial processes and operations

Services

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Odour Dispersion Modelling

Odour dispersion modelling using ADMS and AERMOD software to assess a range of odour sources based on at-source odour emissions measurements or published/library odour emissions data. Odour dispersion modelling can be used for planning purposes, designing masterplans in close proximity to odour sources, and assessing the extent of a facility’s odour impact on the local area.

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Odour Monitoring

Field-based odour surveys are conducted through sniff testing undertaken by trained professionals, which involves odour observations and follows published procedures and protocols . This can be used to review local complaint data, and support impact assessments.

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Odour Impact Assessment

Production of odour impact assessments (quantitative or qualitative) to assess the impact of a facility on the surrounding area. Assessments can be required as part of the land use planning and/or environmental permitting regimes and can be used to guide the development of Odour Management Plans.

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Odour and Air Quality Guidance

Air Quality Consultants supports institutions in the industry to develop guidance for the assessment and management of odours.

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Expert Witness

Air Quality Consultants provides expert odour-based evidence during public inquiries on behalf of planning authorities, and local- and central- government organisations.

Odours Case Studies

 

Unex, London Borough of Newham

Air Quality Consultants provided air quality design advice; completed an air quality assessment; and undertook a greenhouse gas assessment for a mixed-use, residential led development in the London Borough of Newham.

 
 

Tasley Gateway , Shropshire

Logika Group provided support on air quality, odour and noise for a mixed-use development in Shropshire, which included relocation of a cattle market.

 
 

Bore Hill Farm Anaerobic Digestion/Biogas Plant - Air Quality Assessment

Air Quality Consultants Ltd. formed part of the project team, led by Engain, which achieved planning approval in 2010 for the construction of a new Anaerobic Digestion facility outside of Warminster,

 
 

Cringle Dock Protected Wharf

Air Quality Consultants provided design advice for residential development adjacent to a Waste Transfer Station.

 

Given the complex nature of the project the team are very impressed with the quality of the service that we have received.

Campbell Reith Hill LLP

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