In Quintero Bay, an important industrial complex is located. Between August and September of 2018, air pollution events associated with odors occurred in the city of Quintero, resulting in intoxication of hundreds of people.

   To try to clarify the origin of these events, an air quality monitoring campaign was carried out in one of the companies of the industrial complex (ENAP Terminal Quintero), in addition to the chemical speciation of the fugitive emissions existing in the Quintero Terminal ENAP. The air quality monitoring was performed using an equipment to an EPAS HIM 6000 HAZ SCANNER, Environmental Devices Corporation, USA, capable of measuring the concentration of twelve contaminants including HTC and VOCs, while the chemical speciation was performed using a TORION T9 portable GC / MS, Perkin Elmer, USA.

F. Cereceda-Balic^1-2, K. González¹, V. Vidal^1-2, L. Díaz-Robles³

¹Centro de Tecnologías Ambientales (CETAM), Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, General Bari 699, Valparaíso, Chile.
²Departamento de Química, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Avenida España 1680, Valparaíso, Chile
³Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Avenida L.B O ́Higgins 3363, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile

   Environmental odour management today offers a variety of building blocks, ranging from the use of state-of-the-art technology to the implementation of various methods, which are based on national and international guidelines and standards. These range from odour monitoring approaches using trained human sensory panels and citizen science, real-time and forecasted dynamic dispersion modelling, trajectory and back-tracking calculations, but also sensor systems which are making use of gas sensors to detect and quantify key odorants of odour sources.

   Although all of these technologies and methods can help to increase the understanding of potential origins of odour related problems, most solutions available in the market only allow an isolated consideration of the acquired data. Depending on the specific scenario and related questions, however, the right combination of these building blocks is often key to get full clarity on the odour emission and / or impact situation. A flexible platform like Ortelium allows to combine data channels, so that a more meaningful picture of the odour situation can be established.

C. Mannebeck^*, M. Andresen

Olfasense GmbH, Fraunhoferstr. 13, 24118 Kiel, Germany,
^*cmannebeck@olfasense.com