INTRODUCTION
Nuisance odour ranks highly among public complaints on the quality of our air. Municipal facilities like sewers, wastewater plants, refuse collection trucks, farming and agricultural industries are often a source of odour complaints. Plant managers, consultants, suppliers of odour control systems and the public are often unable to understand and agree on how odours are released to the atmosphere and how they can be controlled.

This 1-day odour workshop aims to introduce participants to critical principles relating to the management of odorous emissions from industries. The fundamentals of odour sampling and measurement including the principles of dynamic olfactometry will be discussed. Different odour abatement technologies and their practical application to the control and treatment of odorous emission will be discussed. Some case studies largely from the wastewater industry will be presented.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to understand the measurement and control of odour.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Introduction to odour issues and trends
• Composition of odorous air and chracteristics
• Odour sampling techniques
• Olfactory measurement of odours - dilution olfactometry
• Odour control issues
• Chemical scrubbers - mist and packed towers
• Physical treatment of odours - activated carbon
• Biological treatment systems - biofilter, biotrickling and bioscrubbers

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Personnel who would like to understand odour management.

ACCREDITATION
This course is accredited under the Professional Engineers Board's Continuing Professional Development Programme for Engineers in Singapore. Participants will gain 7 PDU units upon completion of the course. Course participants must complete this course with at least 75% attendance rate.

This course is accredited under the Registered Safety Officer's Continuing Professional Development Programme. Participants will gain 7 SDUs upon completion of the course. Course participants must complete this course with at least 75% attendance rate.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr Lawrence Koe is a Chartered Engineer and a registered professional engineer with specialist expertise in the field of odour evaluation and control. Dr. Koe has more than 30 years of professional engineering experience having worked with the Ministry of the Environment, Singapore, Gutteridge Haskins and Davy Consultant Engineers, an Australian consultancy practice in Brisbane and as an Associate Professor at both the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.

He is the founding Director and Chairman, Board of Directors of Aromatrix Technologies Pte Ltd, the only Singapore company specializing in odour pollution control and was until recently the Director of the Environmental Engineering Research Centre at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

He has organised international conferences and conducted advanced training courses on odour assessment for engineers in ASEAN and is a key advisor on odour issues related to Singapore’s massive Deep Tunnel Sewerage Scheme.

Dr Koe is also the developer of the Odormat, a computerized dynamic olfactometer for odour measurement and has obtained a number of awards for his innovation on the AroBIOS, a new biotrickling technology for sewage odour control.