Clean air is necessary for the protection of our global environment which is competing to many essential human activities related to economical industrial and social developments that all pollute the air where most people live. The environmental regulations are becoming more stringent rules to combat climate change to not exceed certain limits from emitted sources. Monitoring these emissions from premises is the starting point to comply with meeting regulatory requirements to promote our environmental air quality. But, how are fugitive emissions detected & controlled? Sharing end users' experiences & challenges on the following Measuring the Amb. Air quality through different techniques: • Open path detection (IR, LAZER, UV) • Conventional methods (Sample extractions) • Other methods Measuring & controlling sources of emissions: • Fugitive emissions • Point sources (Stacks/ Flares/ Scrubers) Key factors: · Cost-effectiveness · Reliability & Maintainability · Regulatory Compliance · Challenges

Hamad AlOthman (Author/Presenter)

Lead Analyzer Engineer

Al Jubail Petrochemical Company (KEMYA)

Hamad Al-Othman is a Lead Process Analyzer Engineer with 20 years of total experience in the Automation, Instrumentation & Analyzer field. He is a certified project management professional engineer who contributed to 3 Mega Projects in the Aramco Refinery ULSD project, Re-instrumentation I & II Mega Projects & SABIC- Elastomers Mega Project. He is a certified Reliability Engineer & involved in the associated project's technical support, improving asset reliability post-project start-ups till full optimizations. He has an extensive contribution to KEMYA assets improvements & supporting SABIC in best practices sharing & developments. He is involved globally with Exxon, SABIC and in multiple Technical Exchange Meetings. He has a Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation & Control with 2nd honor & has a post-graduation certificate in AIML.

As climate change is going to impact the world significantly and negatively, Decarbonization is the new trend in the chemical industry. Greenhouse Gases (GHG) trap heat and make the planet warmer. Human activities are responsible for almost all the increase in Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere over the past 150 Years. What gets measured gets managed, and a reliable GHG emissions counting improves a company’s understanding of its emission’s profile. Accounting for emissions can help a company identify its direct impact on the environment and to find out the most effective reduction opportunities. This can drive increased materials and energy efficiency as well as the development of new products and services that reduce the GHG impacts of customers and suppliers. Companies developing GHG inventories fist establish a methodology that follows accounting standards, such as those in the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard. This ensures inventories are as comprehensive and accurate as possible and can be compared with time. A company following the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard compiles GHG emissions data from all owned or controlled facilities and operations at a corporate level and classifies emissions into the following categories : 1. Scope 1 (mandatory - known as direct GHG emissions) : emissions from sources which a company owns or controls. 2. Scope 2 (mandatory - known as indirect GHG emissions): emissions from purchased utilities such as electricity and steam). 3. Scope 3 (optional – known as other-indirect GHG emissions): emissions from other sources which are not under a company’s ownership or control. This may include emissions related to waste disposal, business travel and employee commuting. This session will cover techniques and technologies on how these can be implemented in plants to correctly calculate GHG emissions.

Aqeel Alfulful (Author/Presenter)

Technical Safety Engineer

Wood Saudi Arabia

Aqeel is a talented Technical Safety Engineer with international experience. He has
worked in various fields and industriesin three countries (Italy, Germany, and Saudi
Arabia). He obtained his bachelor’s degree in the field of Chemical Engineering from
KFUPM and his master’s degree in the field of Process Safety and Environmental
Engineering from the University of Magdeburg in Germany. Aqeel worked in
Germany and Europe with a leading synthetic rubber manufacturer (ARLANXEO, a
company of ARAMCO), and has performed greenhouse gas emissions calculations
for the 16 production sites operated by ARLANXEO, which were later audited by
ARAMCO and by a third party and published to public. Aqeel has also worked in
research in the field of wastewater treatment during his master thesis project and
was granted the highest grade possible by his University in Germany. Aqeel is
currently a Technical Safety Engineer working for WOOD Saudi Arabia and looking
forward to bringing the knowledge and expertise he has gained abroad to the
Kingdom.

Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (CEMS) CEMS is the total equipment necessary for the determination of a gas or particulate matter concentration or emission rate using pollutant analyzer measurements and a conversion equation, graph, or computer program to produce results in units of the applicable emission limitation or standard. CEMS are required under some of the EPD regulations for either continual compliance determinations or determination of exceedances of the standards. The individual subparts of the EPD rules specify the reference methods that are used to substantiate the accuracy and precision of the CEMS. Performance Specifications are used for evaluating the acceptability of the CEMS at the time of or soon after installation and whenever specified in the regulations. A predictive emission monitoring system (PEMS) is the total equipment necessary for the determination of a gas concentration or emission rate using process or control device operating parameter measurements and a conversion equation, a graph, or a computer program to produce results in units of the applicable emission limitation or standard. INNOVATIVE EMISSION MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES CEMS, PEMS, and LEAK DETECTION · CEMS o TDL o QCL o EXTRACTIVE vs IN-SITU SAMPLE SYSTEMS o MEETING EPD REQUIREMENTS · PEMS o CHALLENGES & BENEFITS · LEAK DETECTION (LD) o INNOVATIVE IMAGING

Chet Hankamer (Author/Presenter)

Business and Technical Director

Analytical Instrumentation & Maintenance Systems (AIMS)

Mr. Chet Hankamer, Technical Director of Analytical Instrumentation & Maintenance system (AIMS) and is one of the most experienced persons with process analyzers and their applications. He has been in the M.E. region for 32 years with the majority of that time at Saudi Aramco as a process analyzer SME. He was a key committee member in the development of the "SAUDI ARAMCO ANALYZER ENGINEERING STANDARDS.

Chet is currently working as part of the AIMS Team, implementing innovative technologies, providing new analyzer application solutions and imparting knowledge to promising new analyzer experts