Odour is typically the most common reason for environmental complaints received by councils and regulatory agencies.  Negative impacts from odours are generally nuisance-based and caused by a range of factors for which there is no simple assessment formula. 

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Assessment of odours and investigation of odour nuisance is therefore a complex process requiring specialist skills.  Air Quality Professionals' Principal Air Quality Consultant, Tracy Freeman, has been providing clients with odour assessment and management advice for 20 years, and has been a key player in the development of odour assessment science in Australasia.

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Air Quality Professionals provides specialist expertise in the translation of best practice odour assessment science into practical understanding of actual and potential/future odour impacts from industrial, municipal and agricultural activities.

 

​Services provided in investigation of odour issues include the following:

■  Scoping of odour issues to determine extent of 

    impacts and appropriate investigation strategies
 

■  Strategic “long view” odour control

    improvement advice
 

■  Stakeholder, community and regulatory

    consultation
 

■  Set up and review of meteorological monitoring

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■  Odour measurement at source, and community

    odour surveys and diaries.
 

■  Atmospheric dispersion modelling
 

■  Benchmarking/validation of model results

    against known or measured ambient impacts
 

■  Impact risk assessment interpreted from model

    results
 

■  Emission control equipment options, trialling,

    and performance evaluation
 

■  Environmental Impact Statements

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■  Works Approvals, Development & Planning

    Approvals

 

■  Licence conditions negotiation and variations

■  Buffer distance recommendations and

    Environmental Significance Overlays

■  Reverse amenity impacts and land

    development conflicts

■  Policy planning and consultation

■  Independent peer review of assessments

    prepared by others

■  Credible and experienced expert witness

    evidence

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■  Research and training

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■  Management Plans

We have experience in assessment of odour discharges from the following types of industries and municipal activities:

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■  municipal or industrial
■  conveyance & treatment
■  biosolids
■  co-gen/waste to energy

■  composting
■  refuse transfer stations
■  landfills
■  waste to energy systems

■  poultry meat/layers
■  piggeries, dairy, mushrooms
■  effluent/litter treatment & disposal

■  chemical, latex, rubber, solvents
■  asphalt
■  fertiliser
■  pulp & paper, wood processing

■  meat processing, waste treatment
■  rendering, gelatine
■  fellmongery/tanning
 

■  cereals, cooking/frying smells
■  dairy and vegetable wastes
■  brewing, coffee
■  pet food (wet or dry)
 

■  reverse amenity impacts
■  neighbour conflicts/concerns
■  buffer distances
 

■  licence reviews/approvals
■  evidence for prosecutions/defences
■  policy research and background

wastewater treatment

solid wastes

intensive factory farming

industrial manufacturing

primary production byproducts

food and beverage production

land development

regulatory