Mining generates substantial emissions of mine gases, and their unpleasant odours cause nuisances aboveground.
The gases generated by mining include primarily:
- Methane CH4
- Hydrogen sulfide H2S
- Dimethyl sulfide C2H6S
- Others
Atmosferix provides the following services:
- Determining whether an existing or a planned facility complies with applicable regulations
- Planning and implementing the set-up of a stationary or mobile environmental monitoring station
- Managing the existing environmental monitoring stations
- Costumized software that provides an overview and enables the validation of data obtained
- Costumized software that notifies the user if the values obtained are high
- Software that notifies the user in the event of data loss
- Evaluating unpleasant odor emissions from emission sources such as bio-filters, landfill facilities, and other odor-emitting sources
- Analyzing the impact of unpleasant odor emissions on the environment
- Collecting polluted air samples at the emission source or in ambient air
- Making meteorological measurements for the analysis of airflow and preparation of input data for dispersion models
- Modeling the dispersion of pollutants in atmosphere by the means of a dispersion model
Drawing up professional reports and studies in the field of environmental protection