AIR & WASTE
MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
EE-6 ODOR COMMITTEE
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
| This section is devoted to the current activities of the EE-6 Odor
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Odor Measurement Standardization |
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Odor Sampling & Measurement Guidance Document |
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A&WMA Annual Meeting |
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WEF/AWMA Specialty Conference on Odors |
Odor Measurement Standardization
Odor Sampling &
Measurement Guidance Document
UPDATE 2008:
Anna Bokowa (ORTECH Environmental) has prepared suggested revisions to the Guideance Document. These suggested revisions are available for review below:
Suggested Revisions Submitted by Anna Bokowa - June 2008
The following document was presented by sub-committee Chair, Martha O'Brien, as the FINAL
version of the guidance document. This FINAL version has been submitted to
ASTM for review in October 2002 as the ASTM E679 Threshold standard is reviewed at the
ASTM annual meetings. Click the document name to view or download the file.
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EE-6 Guidelines
for Odor Sampling and Measurement by Dynamic Dilution Olfactometry - FINAL Version: August
23, 2002 (guidelinedocFINAL8-23-02.doc - 65kb) |
Background
A sub-committee of the A&WMA EE-6 Odor Committee was formed to develop a set of
"guidelines" or "recommended practices" for the standardization of
odor sampling procedures and odor measurement techniques by dynamic dilution olfactometry.
The current ASTM method for odor measurement is Method E679-91: Standard Practice for
Determination of Odor and Taste Thresholds by a Forced-Choice Ascending Concentration
Series Method of Limits. Although this method outlines some basic procedures, a
new set of guidelines needs to be developed which defines specific procedures and
measurement parameters to allow odor measurement results to be comparable from one
laboratory to another and from one instrument to another.
EE-6 Sub-Committee on Standardization of Odor Measurement
| Martha O'Brien (Chair) | Steve Ellis | Ralph Johnson |
| Art Black | Alex Gnyp | Bill Prokop |
| Sam Cha | Paul Jann | Jeffrey Worthington |
Other Standards
Contact The American Society
of Testing and Materials (ASTM) for a copy of the current ASTM
E679-04 Odor Standard
The European Committee for
Standardization Organization (CEN) released prEN 13725, the European Union
Olfactometry Standard, for public comment in late 1999. The comment period closed
2/1/2000. The draft is expected to become official in early 2001.
Click here for a Standard Comparison Table
which was presented by Mike McGinley at the A&WMA 1999 Annual Meeting in St. Louis,
MO.
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Air & Waste Management Association 104th Annual Meeting & Exhibition Orlando Convention Centre Orlando, FL 21-24 June 2011 Call for Papers Abstract Submittal Deadline: 3 December 2011 Click here for more information |
The following principal areas were submitted to the call for abstracts by the EE-6 Odor Committee for the 2009 Meeting in Detroit:
| EE-6 | General session on Odor Measurement, Effects, and Management | M. McGinley - St. Croix Sensory, Inc. |
| Modeling and Monitoring of Odors | R. Porter - CH2M Hill | |
| Odor Nuisance and Enforcement Case Studies | A. Bokowa - ORTECH Environmental | |
| Odor Issues from Industry's Perspective: Agriculture, Landfill & Composting, Pulp & Paper, WWTP, and Oil Refining | L. Hottenstein - ERM | |
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WEF/AWMA Odors & Air Pollutants 2012 Specialty Conference
Location: TBD
Date: Spring 2012
Neil Webster, Webster Environmental, and
Philip Wolstenholme, Brown & Caldwell, are the Technical Program Co-Chairs for this conference.
For more information about the conference and the Call
For Papers and to SUBMIT AN ABASTRACT visit the WEF
Conference web site
ABSTRACTS DUE: TBA
The following is a list of topics expecting to be addressed through paper presentations,
round table discussions, and vendor exhibits:
| A. | Methods for Sampling, Measuring, and Estimating Emissions | I. | Biological Odor Control | |
| B. | Odor Control Planning and Monitoring | J. | Operations of Odor Control Systems | |
| C. | Fate and Odor Modeling | K. | Agricultural/Industrial Waste Emissions | |
| D. | Collection System Odors and Corrosion | L. | Innovative Technologies | |
| E. | Design of Odor Control Systems | |||
| F. | Emissions from Biosolids | |||
| G. | Bioenergy Technologies and Emissions Control | |||
| H. | Sustainability and Greenhouse Gases |
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