V O L U M E 19, No 2, May 1985. PRICE $4.50
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JOURNAL OF
THE CLEAN AIR SOCIETY OF
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
President: Dr. K. M. Sullivan AM Secretary: R. W. Manuell Treasurer: Dr. K. S. Basden
Postal Address:
Box 191, Eastwood, N.S.W. 2122.
BRANCH PRESIDENTS ACT: T. O'Brien NSW: J. D. Court NZ: D. E. J. Ward Old: J. S. McFarlane SA: Dr Allen Gale
Vic/Tas: Dr. J. B. Robinson WA: D. G. Saunders
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SA: Dr. Allen Gale Vic/Tas: Jack Chiodo WA: D. B. Sykes
EDITORIAL
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T E C H N I C A L PAPERS
Weather Patterns and Meteorological Conditions Associated with Peak Pollutant Concentrations in the Latrobe Valley — Sabriye Ahmet.
Mixing Depth in the Latrobe Valley — D. E. Jones
A Comparison of two Stability Classification Methods Using Latrobe Valley Data — M. Cope, J. Ncvill, R. Hoy
AIR POLLUTION GUIDE — Paticulate Matter AIR POLLUTION CONTROL IN PRACTICE FEATURES
Seventh World Clean Air Congress Branch News
Conferences and Courses Indoor Air Pollution Personnel Changes New Books
Company News Overseas News New Products
Report on SABOAC Conference Air Pollution Control Consult ants Book Review
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The opinions expressed by authors and contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the view of the Society.
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EDITORIAL
Progress in Chemicals Notification.
Many readers will be aware of the pro- posed national notification and assess- ment, scheme for chemical substances from Dick Manuell's Editorial in the August 1984 issue of CLEAN AIR.
Since last August there have been a number of significant developments which would be of interest to many members of the Clean Air Society.
The Commonwealth Department of Arts, Heritage and Environment, {formerly Home Affairs and Environ- ment) has published the first part of a new and comprehensive list of chemi- cals in Australia. The Australian Core Inventory of chemical substances (ACOIN) identifies 5,280 chemicals which were imported into or manufac- tured in Australia for commercial pur- poses in the years 1977 to 1983 inclu- sive. The names of these substances were provided voluntarily by a representative group of 46 companies from the chemical industry.
Shortly manufacturers and import- ers of chemical substances will be asked to nominate all other chemicals manufactured or imported for com- mercial purposes, for listing in the Australian Inventory of Chemical Sub- stances (A1CS), which will also include the substances listed in ACOIN.
ATCS will be an essential clement of the national chemicals notification and assessment scheme. Any chemical sub- stance not included in AICS will be, by definition, a new chemical substance and will be subject to mandatory notification and assessment, require- ments. While the notification proce- dures are being formulated so as to minimise inconvenience and cost, there may nevertheless be significant costs involved for manufacturers and im- porters of new chemicals. It is, there- fore, important to ensure that all eligible substances are included in AICS.
Seminars on reporting for AICS will be held in all major centres early in the six months AICS reporting period. At the seminars there will be discussion on strategies for compiling a company's 34
list of chemicals and the procedures for making nominations to AICS.
The other major development which has occurred is the announcement of the location of the administration of the scheme within the Commonwealth bureaucracy. In his speech informing Parliament of the Government's response to the report of the Interim National Occupational Health and Safety Commission the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr. Ralph Willis, announced the es- tablishment of a permanent commis- sion. He also announced that the Government had adopted the view that primary carriage of the national chem- icals notification scheme should be- come the responsibility of the Nation- al Commission at. the completion of the development phase. The Govern- ment also decided that further develop- ment of the scheme should remain the responsibility of the Department of Arts, Heritage and Environment.
To date the exercise has been an ex- cellent, example of cooperation be- tween industry and government aimed at producing a notification and assess- ment, scheme for chemical substances which will provide sufficient scientific data to allow the objective assessment at reasonable cost. It is to be hoped that the final development and im- plementation of this long awaited scheme proceeds as smoothly.
TERRY O'BRIEN
7th WORLD CLEAN AIR CONGRESS
Plans for the Congress, to be held in Sydney from 25 to 29 August, 1986, are proceeding on schedule. With the kind assistance of the NSW Slate Pol- lution Control Commission a city office is now open at 157 Liverpool Street, Sydney, the postal address be- ing: P.O. Box A 244, South Sydney, NSW 2000.
Mr. Ralph Goode, a member of the NSW Branch, has been appointed Ad- ministrative Officer for the Congress and has started his coordination work with the appointment of nine sub- committees to attend to activities such as tours, audio-visual and translation, editorial, programmes, etc. Mr. Hanns Hartmann has been appointed editor of the Proceedings.
Calls for papers, which were widely circulated throughout all lUAPPA affiliates, were due for submission to national committees by 3 May, and if you are still considering submitting an abstract please do so at once. Members of CASANZ should submit theirs to the Congress Committee, care of Ralph Goode at the above address.
BRANCH NEWS
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
The Annual General Meeting of the A.C.T. Branch of the Society was held at the end of October 1984. At this meeting the following committee was elected unopposed for the next two vears.
President: T. R. O'Brien Secretary: S. Altree-Williams Treasurer: J. A. Taylor
Committee Members: A. J. Jakeman, A. Maries, J. Armstead.
Following the meeting Stephen Altree-Williams was appointed as a lecturer in occupational hygiene at Dcakin University and had to resign as Branch Secretary. John Taylor has taken over as Branch Secretary and John Armstead is the new Treasurer.
The Committee has met to discuss its meeting programme for the corning mouths and as soon as speakers have been confirmed as being available members will be notified.
NEW SOUTH WALES
The Annual General Meeting of the N.S.W. Branch of the Society was held on 12th February, 1985, in the.
auditorium of the AGL Building, North Sydney.
The President, Mr. J. Court, submitted his Report and the Treasurer, Mr. N. Lamb, the Financial Statement.
The following Officers and Committee were appointed:
President: Mr. J. D. Court.
Imm. Past President: Dr. K. M.
Sullivan, A.M.
Secretary: Mr. S. Stanley.
Treasurer: Mr. N. Lamb.
Committee: Dr. K. S. Basden, Mr.
A. J. Crapp, Mr. L. VI. Ferrari, Mr. G. Johnson, Mr. R. W.
Manuell, Mr. B. Smith, Mr. E. L.
Swanson, Mr. T. J. Wziontek.
The Annual General Meeting was followed by a talk on "Operating Experiences with Fabric Filters at Eraring Power Station" by Mr. C.
Robertson of the Electricity Com- mission of N.S.W. Mr. Robertson introduced his talk by describing the history of trial pilot installations at Tallawarra and Wangi Power Houses.
The Eraring dust collector installation is one of the largest plant of this type and the audience has shown keen interest in the description of operation and maintenance.
Victoria and Tasmania
The E.P.A. has recently adopted a Clean Air/May 1985
model by-law for control of incinera- tors and open burning in residential areas. This will provide local Councils with guidelines for adopting regula- tions to control sources of annoyance to local communities.
The E.P.A. has adopted and pub- lished a illume calculation procedure based on the industrial Source complex model. The Clean Air Society in con- junction with the Institution of En- ameers Australia will hold a seminar in early June to explain the develop- ment and application of the procedure.
On 28 March, Dr Kevin Frayne, Senior Air Quality Officer with the E.P.A. whose responsibility is policy development, addressed a meeting of the Branch on future developments of air quality policy for Victoria. He dis- cussed the development of the various industry schedules under Schedule F of the State Environment Protect ion Poli- cy (Air), including those currently un- der consideration and those proposed for consideration in the next 2 or 3 years. A large amount of work, has been done with industry cooperating to the full. About 40 members and friends attended and the talk was fol- lowed by a lively discussion.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA Ern Symons steps down.
Ern Symons retired this year from the position as President of the South Australian Branch of the Society after seven years of conscientious service.
Highlight of this period was the host- ing by the South Australian Branch of the very successful Seventh Interna- tional Clean Air Conference in 1981.
Ern's experience and expertise will not be lost as he is continuing his in- volvement with the Branch as a com- mittee member.
He was a popular president which was reflected in the increase of the Branch's membership numbers. Ern's professional position as manager of the Adelaide Chemical Company is a demanding one and it demonstrates his energetic approach to all he does that over seven years he applied so much of his valuable time to the position as president-
Thank you Ern, all your friends in the Society will be pleased to know that your smiling face will still be around.
CONFERENCES AND COURSES Gas Cleaning at High
Temperatures
A major international symposium is to be held at. the University of Surrey, 16-18 September 1986. The conference is planned to provide an opportunity for exchange of ideas and experience in cleaning gases ai temperatures above
the range covered by conventional process techniques. The Symposium should be of interest to all in the process industry and in the associated research c o m m u n i t y who arc concerned with removing panicles and also condensiblc components such as alkali salts from gases at temperatures above 200°C. Examples of the various areas to be covered by the conference include:
— furnaces and kilns
— metallurgical operations
— gases from cement manufacture
— power generation including the problem of cleaning turbine expansion gases
— nuclear waste incinerators.
For further details write to:
Dr. J. A. Cross,
Senior Research Scientist.
CSIRO,
Division of Textile Physics.
338 Blaxland Road.
Ryde, NSW, 2112.
Air Pollution Control Course The first air pollution training course, organised by the Clean Air So- ciety Training Commitee, was run at Macquarie University, Sydney, from February 7 to March 7.
There were 78 delegates at the course which covered legislation, meteor- ology, sizing of stacks, combustion, mechanical collectors, electrostatic precipitators, scrubbers, fabric filters, control of odours and hydrocarbons.
Segments of the course were present- ed by lecturers from industry, univer- sities and government. A 220 page manual was written for the course.
The final lecture was held at Curzon Hall and was followed by dinner and presentation of certificates by the Fed- eral President, Dr. Ken Sullivan A.M.
The next course will be held in the Hunter Valley, NSW, late in the year.
The course will be held in other States if there is sufficient demand.
Air Pollution Measurement Course
The 3-day course covers air monitor- ing, stack testing and laboratory analy- sis from a practical point of view and is aimed at the operator, technician and scientist. The course manual is well over 400 pages and includes the 15 relevant Australian Standards on air pollution measurement.
Measurement training courses have so far been run at. Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane.
The next course will be run at Adelaide in late September and the final course for the year probably in Hong Kong in late November.
If you require more information on either of the training courses please ring Len Ferrari or Alisdair Guthrie
(02) 265 88889) or write to the Train- ing Course Secretary, Clean Air Soci- ety of Australia and New Zealand.
P.O. Box 191 EASTWOOD 2122.
President Ken Sullivan presenting the course certificate to Dr. Frank Cttell from
Macquarie University.
Waste Water and Toxic Chemicals
The Department of Chemical En- gineering at the University of Queens- land and the School of Civil Engineer- ing at the University of New South Wales are jointly sponsoring three in- tensive continuing education courses in the field of water and wastewater treat- ment. All courses will be held at the Merropole Hotel, Cremorne, Sydney.
"Principles of Wastewater Treat- ment Design and Operation" — July 8-12 1985.
"Design of Wastewater Treatment Plants'' — July 8-12 1985 (Work- shop Style).
"Management of Hazardous, Tox- ic and Intractable Wastes" — July 8-12 1985.
The principal lecturers for these courses will be Professor Wes Ecken-
felder from the U.S.A. Dr. Peter Coacklcy from the U.K., Professor Steve Hrudey from Canada, Dr. David
Barnes and Dr. Michael Knight from U.N.S.W. and Dr. Paul Greenfield from University of Queensland.
Further details may be obtained from either of:
Dr. P. Greenfield,
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland,
ST LUCIA, Q. 4067,
(07) 377-3328), or Dr D. Barnes,
School of Civil Engineering, University of New South Wales, P.O. Box 1,
KENSINGTON, NSW 2033.
(02) 697-5017.
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CONFERENCES A N D COURSES
2nd World Congress on En- gineering and Environment This Congress will be held in New
Delhi (India) from 7-9 November, 1985, under the auspices of the World Federation of Engineering Organisa- tions (WFEO). It will be organised by the Institution of Engineers (India). A call for papers and instructions to authors has gone out.
For further information write to:
Organising Secretary,
2nd World Congress on Engineering &
Environment
The Institution of Engineers (India) Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
New Delhi — 110002 India
It is hoped that Dr. J. D. Spengler, Head of the Environmental Science and Physiology Department of Har- vard University, Boston, will be able
to visit Australia for a lecture tour and to hold workshops on indoor air pol- lution. The visit is likely to be in late July and early August.
Dr. Spengler is the renowned expert on the subject and would speak on the state of the art overseas and his specific work on measurements and health studies.
The SPCC has been successful in receiving a grant of $139,660 from the National Energy Research Develop- ment and Demonstration Council (NER DDC) to carry out a study to as- sess the levels of indoor air pollution and their implications in Australia.
The study will begin in July.
PERSONNEL CHANGES Mr. P. J. Ramsay has recently been appointed Chief Air Quality Officer of the Environment Protection Authority of Victoria. Mr. Ramsay has been working for the E.P.A. in stationary sources control for the past twelve years.
Mr. J. O'Heare is now Head of the Chemical Technology Section of the
S.E.C.V. He has previously worked for A.P.M. and I.C.I. More recently he was Head of the Atmospheric Sciences Section in the S.E.C.V. where he has worked for over twenty years.
Mr. R. Joynt replaces Mr. O'Heare as Head of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the S.E.C.V. Mr. Joynt has worked for the S.E.C.V. for some twenty years including periods in the Fluid Mechanics Section, and has been involved in a number of environmen- tal roles at the S.E.C.V.
Dr. P. C. Manins has been appoint- ed to the position of director, Latrobe Valley Air Shed Study. The Study is a joint undertaking between E.P.A., S.F.C.V., I..V.W.S.B. and C.S.I.R.O.
and is guided by a Steering Commit- tee to whom Dr. Manins will report.
Dr. Manins comes from C.S.I.R.O.
Division of Atmospheric Research where he holds the position of Prin- cipal Research Scientist.
Ms. Patricia Anne Geraghty has been appointed to fill the vacant posi- tion on the Environment Council es- tablished under the Environment Pro- tection Act. Ms. Geraghty is a lecturer in the School of Applied Science at the Chisholm Institute of Technology.
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