A review of odour impact criteria in selected countries around the world

Odour Impact Assessment by Means of Dispersion Modeling, Dynamic Olfactometry and Mobile Electronic Nose around Agadir Fishing Port in Morocco

“…It's noted that the Community survey is the low cost methodology compared to others methods to asses odour impacts from facilities in urban areas taking into account past experiences, seasonal effects and the role of human perception through social participation, but it is difficult to insure impartial judgement in order to avoid errors in the responses [12].…”

How Can Odors Be Measured? An Overview of Methods and Their Applications

“…Recognizing the lack of information about odor pollution and management as a limit for the successful adoption of citizen science for the management of odor problems, this review paper was conceived within the H2020 D-NOSES project with the purpose of raising awareness about odor pollution and providing a scientific background concerning odor impact assessment methods, which can be used by experienced as well as non-experienced users.This paper presents an overview of the methods that can be used for odor measurement, thereby excluding odor impact assessment techniques based on mathematical methods (i.e., dispersion models) or literature evaluations.Indeed, dispersion models have become increasingly popular for odor impact assessment purposes over the last 20 years [12][13][14][15], and most European regulations on odor impacts are based on modelling approaches [16,17]. The decision to exclude odor dispersion models from the present overview is because there is already extensive literature on the matter [18][19][20], and because the specific goal of this review paper was to provide an exhaustive answer to the question: "How can odors be measured? "Section 2 is structured in subsections relevant to the different methods, providing a brief description of each technique and some examples of the relevant applications by referring to the scientific literature prevailingly over the last 10 years (a few older works have also been cited if particularly relevant).…”

“…Indeed, dispersion models have become increasingly popular for odor impact assessment purposes over the last 20 years [12][13][14][15], and most European regulations on odor impacts are based on modelling approaches [16,17]. The decision to exclude odor dispersion models from the present overview is because there is already extensive literature on the matter [18][19][20], and because the specific goal of this review paper was to provide an exhaustive answer to the question: "How can odors be measured? "…”

Monitoring odour emisssions from an oil & gas plant: Electronic nose performance testing in the field

“…Air quality monitoring for the detection and recognition of environmental odours is an important field of application for electronic noses, and it has become more and more important over the last decade due to the broadened concept of air quality, which has led odours to be included as a form of air pollution [1]. Actually, odour is one of the main cause of citizens' complaints to the environmental authorities, especially in highly populated regions, where residential units often are found close to industrial areas.…”

“…In this scenario, electronic noses are particularly interesting because while other better-established and solid analytical techniques can be used to detect specific compounds, electronic noses are currently the only method capable of quantifying and classifying odours in real time [2]. At present, most regulation approaches are based on a first step of odour emission quantification through the measurement of odour concentration by dynamic olfactometry [3], followed by exposure evaluation by dispersion modelling [1]. However, there are several situations for which dispersion modelling is hardly applicable, due to the difficulty of assessing a representative odour emission rate, the variability of emissions or the presence of multiple sources.…”