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The year 2022 is just coming to an end. We are about to close a wonderful year. The lockdowns look like they are over in most countries, and slowly, we are returning to our past, but with new ways of life and many lessons learned. This year has also come with fantastic news for the odour managers, and we will write about that in another post.
In this post, we just wanted to wish you merry Christmas if you are a Christian or a happy Holiday if you are enjoying these complimentary days in your country. We hope you enjoy these festivities with your family & friends, and we invite you to continue with us next year for more about odours here at Olores.org.
The year 2022 is ending, and a lot has happened in odour management. So, one more year, we will again look at the news of this year, 2022.
One of the most relevant news with which the year started is the entry into force of the new German air quality law. This regulation finally includes odour as a parameter to be considered if one really wants to evaluate the quality of the "air". From December 2021, Germany's regulatory limit of 1 odour hour in ambient air cannot exceed more than 876 hours a year in residential areas. Also, for industrial and rural areas, the limit of 1 odour hour can be at most 1314 hours yearly.
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A couple of weeks from the holding of the 7th Digital Olfaction Society World Congress, new dates for the next event have been published: the 8th World Congress of Digital Olfaction Society will take place on December 7-8, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan.
New challenges in the field of digital olfaction will be highlighted during this new Congress. All the details and abstract Submission deadlines for the year 2023 will be announced soon.
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As you probably know, last year Olores.org organized the 9th IWA Odour & VOC/Air Emission Conference will take place the 26-27 of October 2021 in Bilbao, Spain. The IWA Odour and Air Emissions Conferences is one of the worldwide leading odour conferences. These events bring together engineers, scientists, researchers, students, local authorities, managers and other professionals in order to address and discuss emerging odour issues.
More than 160 people attended that event, from 19 different countries, and more than 50 presentations were shown there. Although this conference was held primarily in English, some of them are in Spanish, but you could read their abstract in English.
Saying that, we are thrilled to share with you the last pending articles of their presentations and the videos and PPT files of the ones that have given us their authorization to publish them. Besides, you will find a compilation article with all the papers presented there.
Enjoy the reading!
All the papers from the 9th IWA Odour & VOC/Air Emission Conference that took place in Bilbao, Spain, on the 26-27 of October 2021, have been published during the years 2021 and 2022.
This time, hosted by International Water Association, the Conference was organized by the website Olores.org with the collaboration of the International Association of Environmental Odour Managers (AMIGO). This 9th IWA Odour & VOC/Air Emission Conference took place on the 26 and 27 of October 2021 in the Euskalduna Bilbao Conference Centre.
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11 posters were displayed on the convention centre hall during the 9th IWA Odour & VOC/Air Emission Conference in Bilbao, Spain, on the 26th and 27th of October 2021. Here you have them compiled so that you can check them altogether.
This event took place at the Euskalduna Conference Centre in Bilbao, Spain, with around 160 attendants from 19 countries, underscoring the increased interest in environmental odour management. Besides, there were 18 companies displaying their products and services at the reserved booth space where also 11 posters were exhibited.
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During this 9th IWA Odour & VOC/Air Emission Conference that took place in Bilbao, Spain, on the 26-27 of October 2021, we had the amazing chance to listen to these 5 experts from different continents of the world.
If you did not have the chance to listen to them, we bring you here the 5 keynotes of Anna Bokowa from Canada, Jennifer Barclay from New Zealand, Weifang Li from China, Daniela Caimanque from Chile, and Laura Capelli from Italy.
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Transporting liquid waste is a continuously growing activity in several industries. This transportation is made in trucks and sea containers. Often, the liquid transported contains Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) and odours. The process of washing and cleaning the truck tanks usually involves the emission of odours and VOCs. The aim of this study was to evaluate the odour abatement efficiency of a multistage hybrid approach consisting of alkaline scrubbing, condenser, adsorption with impregnated Al2O3 + active carbon (AC), and the injection of a deodorizing product to abate odour and VOC emission. In addition, the second aim of this study was to show that the use of these sequential technologies reduce VOC emissions below the limit of 100 mg/m³ set in the environmental authorisation.
Before the abatement system was installed, VOC concentration was measured over a week averaging 200 mg/Nm³. After the installation of the abatement system, the results showed that the average VOC concentration was always well below the legal limit. In addition, when washing activities took place, the odour concentration measured at the inlet, and outlet of the abatement system was 5000 ouE/m3 and 150 ouE/m3, respectively. This was a 97% odour abatement efficiency.
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During 2018, Chile began to generate quality standards for offensive odors. The priority of the authority was defined by type of activity and the historical number of complaints per year raised by citizens for every type of industry. From the analysis, five industries were selected for the first stage, among which the Chilean Kraft pulp industry was part of, activity representing approximately 2% of world production.
Facing complaints, the lack of development planning and land use, the absence of quality standards the null international and bibliographic experience of how to proceed with odor management in this type of industry contributed to creating the necessary need to generate online, integrated, prompt response tools that could allow the odor impact to be managed efficiently in real time.
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- 16 - 19 May 2023, WEF Conference on Odors and Air Pollutants 2023, Charlotte, NC, USA.
- 5 - 8 June 2023, A&WMA Annual Conference & Exhibition Orlando, Florida, USA.
- 7 - 8 December 2023, 8th World DOS Congress, Tokyo, Japan.
- 26 - 27 August 2024, 10th IWA & CASANZ odour management conference, Hobart, Australia.
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