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IMechE has joined IFEAA as a founding member, which aims to advance the common objectives of many siloed sectors and facilitate the promotion of scientific, technological, and policy exchange within the fugitive emissions space.
Joining members of the IMechE’s Process Industries Division Board were representatives from the agricultural manufacturing powerhouse CNH Industrial, Southwest Water, University of Brighton, Department for Transport, Bennamann and SeekOps, an emissions detection company.
An afternoon with IFEAA focused on a collaborative workshop as the first step in realising the key questions that have been answered and that need answering. IFEAA, with its multi-sectoral, cross-disciplined attendance, showed outstanding leadership and knowledge of the current situation across several sectors, including wastewater, agriculture, and the Oil & Gas industries.
Two exercises were prepared, the first being to map out all the energy inputs and waste outputs that you would find entering/exiting an average household and map out the energy chain with the house being the central point. The idea here is to illustrate each step it takes for energy to reach a household and reveal what energy is currently lost.
The second exercise was to apply notes to all the points within which energy is lost, seeking to highlight what is currently known about fugitive emissions and queries that still need an answer. Having a broad range of attendees from different industries provided in-depth knowledge of specific issues that can affect individual industries but, in this instance, allowed for a specialised transference of knowledge.
The result of the exercises raised a plethora of queries and questions, the answers to which are needed to abate fugitive emissions from agriculture, waste streams and the Oil & Gas industry. This allows IFEAA to prioritise its workload for the forthcoming year and set about real change within the fugitive emissions space.
Coming up next for IFEAA will be a series of deep dives specialising in each of the aforementioned sectors. In addition to this, there are also some promising projects which will map the fugitive emissions on a county-wide scale. Furthermore, there are planned in-depth investigations of specific sectors and their fugitive emission patterns.
If you wish to enquire more about IFEAA and membership, please contact membership@ifeaa.com
If you have any questions, please contact us E: membernetworks@imeche.org