Are Combustion Gases In Your Workplace?
Carbon monoxide is a colorless-odorless toxic gas that has significant health affects and needs to be managed in the workplace and home.
Does your workplace have any of these combustion appliances?
- LPG powered vehicle,
- Diesel powered vehicle,
- Compressor or engines,
- Other fuel-burning device?
If so, then combustion gases will be produced as the fuel burns. Normally, these combustion products — which can include both visible smoke and various invisible gases — should be vented to the outdoors through a chimney or vent pipe. Unfortunately, they may instead escape into your workplace, where they could raise a variety of health and other concerns.
Why the Concern?
Toxic compounds can be present in combustion gases, sharing your workplace with these gases can lead to problems ranging from nuisance headaches to serious illness, carbon monoxide poisoning and even death. The most likely health effects are chronic, low-grade, sometimes difficult-to-define ailments, and health deterioration due to long-term exposure to the combustion gases. These effects
can occur even if concentrations are low
Vehicle Emissions
K2 Environmental is able to test vehicle emissions and their pollutant effect on the surrounding air. This may include vehicle emission testing program for:-
- carbon dioxide test (CO2)
- carbon monoxide test (CO)
- nitrogen oxide test(NO)
- nitrogen dioxide test(NO2)
- sulphur dioxide test(SO2)
- oxygen test(O2)
- particulate test or
- hydrocarbons test
produced during incomplete combustion of fossil fuels.
Elemental Carbon and Organic Carbon
K2 Environmental is able to test for Elemental Carbon.
Elemental carbon consists of tiny black solid particles of soot, most of which are smaller than 2.5 microns. This small size allows the pollutant to reach deep in the lungs, where they may be deposited to result in adverse health effects.
Elemental carbon was collected with the possibility of using elemental carbon as a surrogate for diesel particulate matter. Elemental carbon has been considered a good surrogate for diesel particulate matter because of the relatively high fraction of elemental carbon in diesel particle matter and the relatively high particulate matter emissions from diesel-powered vehicles, compared to gasoline-powered vehicles.
Carbon Monoxide Hazard and Carbon Monoxide Testing
Carbon monoxide is a potential workplace hazard when forklifts or other combustion engines are used. Carbon monoxide can be discharged from diesel engines, petrol or gas powered engines. Carbon monoxide is not only discharged from vehicles, any motor can be a source of carbon monoxide.
For good air pollution control whether this be industrial air pollution, workplace air, or in the home understanding the source of carbon monoxide is a vital step. Any combustion source used in an enclosed space there is a potential occupants can be exposed to unsafe levels of carbon monoxide.
K2 Environmental can conduct:-
- An Air Quality review,
- Occupational Air Quality Monitoring,
- Engine and Vehicle Source Testing of Combustion gases,
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