Emission Monitoring Systems

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

Increasingly Popular Emission Trading Schemes Drive Growth in Emission Monitoring System Market

ARC Advisory Group’s research on the emission monitoring systems (EMS) market shows that increased use of emissions trading schemes is a key factor behind the market’s substantial growth. The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is a tool for sending price signals to producers, consumers, and investors. It puts a price on emissions by charging certain sectors of the economy for the greenhouse gases they emit. EMS is the traditional method of monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, and continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) is required by the majority of national environmental regulatory authorities.

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

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.