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UK firm presents “game-changing” solution to monitoring indoor air quality

Envirotec Magazine

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is a global concern for health, wellbeing and productivity as people spend 90% of their time indoors, where IAQ can be up to 7 times worse than outdoor air quality. million UK homes are hazardous to health, with a cost to the NHS of more than £1 billion per year.

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Exploring the Field of Environ Engineering: Safeguarding Our Planet for Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

Air Quality Control : Environmental engineers devise strategies to monitor and improve air quality. They use technologies such as electrostatic precipitators, scrubbers, and catalytic converters to capture or reduce harmful pollutants before they are released into the atmosphere.

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Air Quality Monitoring Networks Support More Climate-Resilient Communities

Energy Innovation

This post is the fourth in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. It was written by Savannah M. Communities across the U.S. 2019 ; D’Evelyn et al.,

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Brazil’s Energisa Group digitalises transformer monitoring with mPrest

Smart Energy International

Brazilian energy distribution firm Energisa Group is expanding the rollout of mPrest’s transformer health management system (mTHM) following a successful pilot. The pilot included the use of mTHM to monitor the health status of 112 transmission and distribution transformers. Have you read?

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Tech innovators should pay attention to NYC’s new air pollution monitoring pilot

EDF + Business

But what if while completing their routine routes, doing their regular jobs, these vehicles were doubling as mobile air pollution monitoring networks? Municipal vehicles mounted with state-of-the-art sensors developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will collect hyperlocal data as they drive around the Bronx.

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CO2 monitors facilitate rollout of environmentally friendly refrigeration in Australian supermarkets

Envirotec Magazine

Supermarkets all over Australia and New Zealand are benefiting from advanced carbon dioxide monitors, says measurement expert Vaisala, as new natural refrigeration systems are installed to assist in the fight against climate change. However, HCFCs are very powerful greenhouse gases so Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) became more popular.

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Water challenge presents opportunity for cross-sector innovators

Envirotec Magazine

Innovators from multiple sectors including energy, manufacturing, transport and food and beverage, could have the opportunity to share their condition monitoring solutions with every water company in the UK and Ireland. As such, the sector represents a major market for innovators. “We