Keramida - Air Quality Management Consulting Service

• Title V Permitting

• PSD Evaluation & Permitting

• MACT Applicability / Compliance

• O&M Plans

• Emission Inventories / Reporting

• Air Compliance Support

• Technology Assessment (BACT/LAER)

• New Source Reviews

• Compliance Audits

• Air Quality Dispersion Modeling

• Emission Risk Modeling

• Residual Risk Determination

• Stack Test Oversight / Compliance

• Demonstration Support

• Ventilation Studies / Corrective Action (in collaboration with KBD)

• Indoor Air Quality

• Ambient Air Quality

• Energy Use Audit / CO2 Reduction Strategies

• Strategic Planning

• Expert Testimony

Air Emissions Inventory Preparation

KERAMIDA has prepared a great number of emission inventories for a variety of purposes, including:

• Annual emission statements

• Title V air permits

• Construction permit applications

• Form R reporting

• Air modeling studies

KERAMIDA`s projects have included the development of inventories for a wide range of industrial process equipment, storage tanks, chemical plant fugitive emissions, combustion sources, surface coating operations, wastewater operations, and batch processes.  Our professionals use their extensive regulatory expertise and emission inventory experience to provide cost-effective permitting and compliance strategies to our industrial clients.

Air Construction Permitting Assistance

KERAMIDA has helped numerous clients to obtain air construction permits including foundries, surface coating operations, pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, food processing facilities, automotive parts facilities and Portland cement manufacturing facilities.

KERAMIDA`s construction permit projects include facilities seeking major and minor source permits and facilities in both attainment and nonattainment areas. Our construction permit services include:

• Preparation of forms and assessments required by the regulatory agencies

• Modeling

• Providing strategic advice on the permit process

• Interfacing with the regulatory agencies in order to ensure that permits are reviewed on a timely basis and that permit conditions are appropriately established

• Providing support during public hearings

• Review of draft permits and preparation of comments to the regulatory agencies

Air Quality Modeling

Air quality modeling is used to:

• Support applications for major source modifications under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permit program

• Support amendments to emission limitations in existing Particulate Matter and SO2 regulations

• Assess the ambient concentrations of Hazardous Air Pollutants, including the environmental impacts of toxic and flammable materials under the Risk Management Planning requirements of Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act

KERAMIDA has performed modeling assessments to successfully support all of these objectives for industrial clients. We perform both screening and refined modeling projects for a variety of pollutants including PM, PM10, SO2, Ozone, NO2, CO, Lead, and Hazardous Air Pollutants.

Air Program Training

KERAMIDA`s air quality management consultants have extensive experience providing numerous workshops and presenting talks on a wide range of air topics at national and regional conferences. We provide direct training assistance to our industrial clients by presenting in-house technical training sessions and by developing training materials for our clients` specific training needs. Learn more about our EHS Training Services ›

KERAMIDA`s Air Quality Team are experts in their fields, lecturing extensively in national conferences.

Our senior air quality consultants routinely work with federal and state agencies at all levels assisting clients, nationwide, and are involved in the development of regulations through many industry and trade associations. This allows KERAMIDA to strategically interpret current regulations and anticipate future trends and requirements. Our air quality consultants carefully review our industrial partners` project goals and facility plans to devise an approach that results in the most beneficial compliance and permitting strategy. 

KERAMIDA`s air quality services range from process engineering based-emission calculations, and operation and construction permits (e.g., Title V, FESOP, PSD) to more advanced services, including New Source Review (NSR) evaluations and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) look backs, MACT, GACT, NSPS, BACT, LAER, and RACT analyses, air emission reduction strategies, detailed air dispersion modeling, air toxics control and compliance, residual risk evaluation, CO2 and energy reduction assistance, and conceptual design of air pollution control devices. 

Our staff is experienced in conducting multi-pathway air risk assessments in support of air permit needs for industrial facilities. We also conduct these assessments for litigation support and various state air toxics program protocols. KERAMIDA`s air quality clients cover every major industrial category, including:

Our Air Quality Consulting clients also have the added benefit of Technikon`s Air Emissions Research. 

In 2000, KERAMIDA`s base expanded as the co-founder and co-owner of Technikon LLC, a California Research and Development Company formed to privatize a successful Department of Defense Research Program, the Casting Emissions Reduction Program (CERP). 

The knowledge KERAMIDA gains through its collaboration with Technikon, and its access to Technikon`s research, is a priceless asset to our clients. Technikon researches emission measurement methods and assesses and validates reductions of air emissions through Green Manufacturing, accomplished through the use of alternative materials and processes. 

To date, Technikon and KERAMIDA have published over 130 research papers based on the research conducted at Technikon covering a wide range of air topics, including:

The effect of process changes on emissions has been a focus of several projects undertaken at Technikon, as it is an area not well understood by most regulators, researchers and consultants. Even though Technikon`s research had focused on metal casting, a better understanding of the interrelationships amongst process variability, air emissions, and stack testing protocols benefits numerous other industrial sectors. 

Technikon has expanded and is now focused on light metals manufacturing research, applications of advanced manufacturing methods, and biomass to energy technology development and validation.