States Works, a self-funding Trading Asset of the States of Guernsey providing municipal and and maintenance services and employing a predominantly manual workforce, specialist vehicles and equipment are using the Tiger ^LT portable PID to measure VOC levels being emitted from an odour control system at their waste transfer station.

The ION Science Tiger ^LT PID instrument is being used at three outlet ports on each of the transfer station’s odour control carbon filter vessels where it is monitoring VOCs being emitted at quarter, half and three quarters depth of the carbon filter media. It enables States Works to estimate usage of the media so they can be replaced and ensure malodours are not being released into the environment.

Yannic Bearder, Senior Environmental Monitoring Technician comments:

“The company that installed the odour control system at the waste transfer station recommended we use ION Science’s Tiger ^LT PID to measure VOCs from the three outlet ports to help assess utilisation of the carbon filter media.

The Tiger ^LT met our requirement for portability, high detection rates and range of response factors. We have found the Tiger^LT extremely easy to use and reliable.”