Emission Reporting

StackGuide is FLSmidth's cost-efficient product to guarantee all emission monitoring and reporting requirements in the cement and waste incineration industries. 

Combustion related plants such as cement and waste incinerations plants all over the world are facing a growing amount of rules and demands by various authorities on how to report their emissions from their production. The term "CEMS" (Continuous Emission Monitoring System) is applied for a complex of requirements for system configuration, monitoring roles, data validation methods and reporting types in the emission reporting demand. ECS/StackGuide is a CEMS package to accomplish the requirements for emission monitoring in cement and waste incineration plants. The main benefits of this package are:

• Guarantee for complete fulfilment of emission legislation requirements anywhere in the world
• Easy customisation to any special requirements for central, local or plant authorities
• Improving emission statistics by early warning of plant operators about any upcoming emission violation

Secured data retrieval
If the raw data exists in ECS control systems, ECS/StackGuide supports the redundancy of the control system to collect the maximum available data from the servers. In addition, a catch-up function in ECS/StackGuide makes sure that if the data collection was interrupted, the missing data will be collected automatically in order to avoid data holes in the CEMS database. Lack of data in CEMS database may cause e.g. penalties.

Real-time monitoring
ECS/StackGuide can provide an environment in which the plant operators can monitor the current values of the emission. These values are not only the traditional raw values, but the normalised and validated values that are eventually going to affect the historical emission report in the historian part of the system. With configurable alarm limits, the operators will be able to take corrective actions in the process to minimise the emission violations. The real-time part of the system is a natural part of the ECS control system, however can also be integrated with other control systems as on-line imported and displayed in the existing control system environment.

Safe data storage
All the retrieved raw data are kept intact. This means that the data validation of the raw values will only produce new data instead of deleting or manipulating the raw data. Keeping the raw data unchanged is not only crucial for the legislations, but also enables the user to "simulate" tighter emission requirements to forecast future investments in the process.