Air Quality Analysis

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RSG’s team of air quality professionals helps private, public, and nonprofit clients understand and achieve compliance with today’s complex air pollution control regulations. We use scientifically sound methods and technologies that effectively evaluate air quality and impacts from both mobile and stationary sources.

Selected examples of the firm’s diverse experience in air quality analysis include permitting electrical generating systems and heating systems, evaluating pollution control technologies, estimating cancer risk from vehicle emissions, modeling visibility impairment, and developing fugitive dust control plans.

Areas of Expertise

  • Emission inventories
  • Air dispersion/deposition modeling
  • Visibility analysis
  • Air toxics evaluations
  • Avoided emissions
  • Best available control technology (BACT) assessments
  • Odor assessment
  • Permit application preparation
  • Peer review

Examples of Our Work

  • Prepared the permit application and conducted dispersion modeling and a pollution control evaluation for a new wood energy plant at an educational facility
  • Prepared the permit application and conducted dispersion modeling for a new biodiesel power plant for a private energy development corporation
  • Helped a citizens group with promoting a fugitive dust control program for a local quarry
  • Prepared a mobile source air pollution permit, modeled and assessed carcinogenic risk of air pollutants, and developed NOx, CO, and PM10 ambient air monitoring studies for a private sector client
  • Reviewed an air quality application for a cogeneration plant for a nonprofit environmental awareness organization
  • Appealed denial of an air pollution control permit for a public sector client