Metro Manila Air Quality Improvement Sector Development Program

Outsourcing Sampling Project (OSP)ADB Loan No. 1665-PHI

OSP Project Overview

Presented to:

DENR / ADB / NGO& Development Partners

Presented by:Outsource Sampling Project (TRC/TEEM)

September 18, 2006

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OSP Project Scope of Work

Primary objectives

– Perform 960 facility surveys and provide necessary instruction

to modify sources for testing (test ports, platforms, ladders)

– Perform minimum of 6,048 individual test runs (the equivalent

of 960 sources) for PM, SO2, NOx, CO and metals

– Generate representative emission test data in comparison with

the Philippine Clean Air Act standards

– Produce EPA-quality test reports suitable for EMB regulatory

follow-up actions (NONC, Technical Conference, CAP)

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Project Status (through Aug 31)

Status

  Through August 31, 2006

    Current Percent

  Goals Accomplishment of Target

Specific Outputs      

Number of Stack Surveys 960 1,592 166%

Number of Test Runs 6,048 7,489 124%

Number of Equiv. Sources Tested 960 1,189 124%

Number of Analyses 12,500 15,790 126%

Number of Test Reports --- 424 ---

Stacks Failing the Standard --- 388 ---

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Project Status (through Aug 31)

Status

  Regional Accomplishments

         

  NCR Reg 3 Reg 4a Total

         

         

Number of Stack Surveys 636 484 472 1,592

Percent of Total 40% 30% 30%  

         

Number of Test Runs 2,691 2,206 2,592 7,489

Percent of Total 36% 29% 35%  

         

Number of Stacks Tested 308 247 255 810

  38% 30% 31%  

         

Number of Stacks Failing 161 142 85 388

         

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Stack Test Results

Of the 795 stacks reported, 388 are above the CAA standard for at least one parameter:

– 289 stacks are failing for SO2

– 161 stacks are failing for PM

– 83 stacks are failing for CO

– 26 stacks are failing for NOx

– 1 stack is failing for lead

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General Observations

The following are some of the typical

– Sources firing bunker C fuel oil are exceeding the SO2 and PM standards (boilers, gensets, heaters)

– Gensets are exceeding the NOx standard

– Solid fuel-fired units are exceeding the CO standard

– Only 1 source was exceeding the lead standards

– No sources have exceeded the mercury (or other metal) standards

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Equipment Returned to DENR

At the conclusion of the project OSP provides over $230,000 equipment:

– 7 vehicles (3 Revos and 4 Kia Vans)

– Stack testing equipment (meter boxes, sample probes, impingers, etc)

– Laboratory equipment (analytical balance, spectrophotometer, support equipment)

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OSP Supplemental ItemsAlthough not required by our contract, the OSP has provided the following support (at the request of EMB):

• Extensive regulatory and policy guidance and support (CEMS, accreditation, methodology questions, emission averaging, mass emission rates, correction factors, etc)

• Established test port and platform standards with industry

• Created culture of safety in stack testing

• Training (test procedures, laboratory procedures, test report review, regulatory follow-up, PCO workshops)

• Survey and testing of large sources outside the Airshed

Supplemental Items

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Primary Goal

“Improve air quality over the medium term”

– Of the 795 stacks that have been reported, 388 (49%) are

failing (without DENR applying the appropriate dilution

correction factors). This leads to a NONC and compliance

plan.

– For sources that pass, the report generally provides the

necessary data to make that compliance sustainable

– The vast source data should now be used to re-evaluate,

and where necessary, tighten the emission standards