Abstract
In recent years, the public’s awareness and response to nuisance odours have risen markedly. Accordingly, integration of industrial sites, such as wastewater treatment plants and solid waste treatment facilities, within their local environment represents a major challenge for municipalities, particularly with the growing trend of urbanization and the adoption of new and increasingly stringent local regulations regarding nuisance odours.
A global approach to nuisance odour management, emphasizing both technical and human-oriented solutions, has now been reinforced with the development and implementation of real-time odour monitoring and control strategies. The NOSE Platform®is an innovative operational tool that enables real-time diagnosis and forecasting of a site’s olfactive footprint as well as the corresponding impact on the surrounding community as a function of site operational parameters, odour emissions data and the prevailing weather conditions.
The NOSE Platform®has already proven to be both a useful diagnostic tool towards minimizing nuisance odours, as well as an excellent reporting and communications tool, allowing for a more constructive and positive dialogue amongst all facility stakeholders including site Management & Operations staff, community residents, and local government and regulatory officials.
This paper will present the implementation and initial results of this operational tool at a solid waste methanization facility, highlighting its role towards ensuring a global and sustainable approach to nuisance odour management by providing a real-time comparison of the facility’s measured olfactive footprint with the perceived olfactive footprint.
