Vent gas metering, estimating, testing, and reporting

CSA Group
Standards Development Organisation:
Canadian Standards Association (operating as CSA Group)
Working Program:
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Designation Number:
CSA Z620.2
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Domestic
Standard Development Activity:
New Standard
Status:
Proceeding to development
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Scope:

The purpose of this new Standard would be to provide minimum requirements, guidance, and best practices for the quantification of vent gas emissions, standardized metering, testing, estimating and reporting requirements.  Direct vent gas emission metering is often an impractical task as it may imply metering of intermittent, very low pressure, or high humidity and acidic gases. Few metering technologies offer the ability to economically quantify volumes and provide accurate and precise readings across a range of common venting situations. Testing techniques can be subject to biases and inaccuracies in results due to insufficient duration or frequency based on the intermittency of the vent flow

Project need:

There is a regulatory requirement coming into effect in 2020 to estimate vent gas from compressor seals.

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