Grove Scientific & Engineering Company

Global Warming – Myth or Reality (or a little of both) by Bruno A. Ferraro, CEP, QEP

bruno — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:31:08 +0000

I just came back from the Florida Air and Waste Management Association www.flawma.org annual meeting in Captiva Island. As always, the presentations from fellow scientists and engineers were outstanding. We heard a lot of information on global warming and the reality is that the issue has become very political. As an air pollution scientist, I read the articles, look and the data and hear the arguments and this is the conclusion I seem to always come up with; we are in a geologic and climatic cyclic trend that we have seen many times before and will see again in the future. I also see politicians trying to push taxes on carbon dioxide emissions on power plants and other key industrial sectors. What a waste of money this will be an who do you think will bear the burden? The American tax payer and consumer, that’s who.

I agree that we need alternate forms of energy, such as renewal power. I think it’s a good idea that we try to reduce “products of combustion” such as CO2. But to rush full-steam-ahead and start a new tax because the politicians see this as a new “gold mine” is just plain wrong and not good for business or our industrial sector. We need to promote our industrial sector so we can build a strong economy. Did you know China is the number 1 emitter of CO2? Almost two time that of the USA.

Environmental Health and Safety Training by Bruno A. Ferraro, CEP, QEP

bruno — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:29:26 +0000

Did you know that most of the environmental regulations and permits require some level of employee training? This training is either required by the Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) or by a permit condition under the “general duty clause”. For example, if you operate an air pollution control system, you are required to do initial training of your staff in the proper operation, maintenance and malfunction procedures of this device in accordance with the manufacturers” specifications.

Other required training includes generators of hazardous waste, transportation and shipping of any hazardous materials, stormwater pollution prevention, medical waste incinerator operators and blood borne pathogens just to name a few. Grove Scientific & Engineering Company can help you with your training needs.

The Affect of Lowering the Ozone Standard on Businesses by Bruno A. Ferraro, CEP, QEP

bruno — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:25:58 +0000

The USEPA has been working on lowering the ambient air quality standard of Ozone from 75 ppb to somewhere between 65-70 ppb. If this happens, most of the counties in Florida will be affected. It will also, be bad news for certain industry and consumers. For many manufacturing industries, they will have to implement “Lowest Achievable Emission Rates” (LAER) which does not consider cost in the control process. I believe many businesses will choose to move production out of Florida and if possible out of the USA if this happens.

Lowering the ozone standard will affect consumers by raising fuel prices, mandatory vehicle inspections and higher prices of consumer goods. If it costs an industry more money to make a product, the cost will be passed on to the consumer. For more on this issue go to http://www.dep.state.fl.us/air/

Air Pollution

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:54:08 +0000

Grove Scientific & Engineering Company (GSE) is certified by the Florida State Board of Professional Engineers and has been in business since 1987. We specialize in all aspects of air quality consulting. Industrial air pollution has been our focus over the last 22 years and have worked in nearly every industrial sector in the market. Our knowledge of science and engineering are combined to provide our industrial client with solutions to complex air pollution control applications. We have conducted over 400 air pollution projects since 1987 in 45 states and 8 countries.

Prepare permit applications for construction or operation permits, annual operation reports, renewal application, permit transfers and permit modification.
Air pollution control equipment feasibility and design studies
Title V permitting
Emissions inventories
Visible emissions testing
General engineering consulting on all types of air pollution sources
Air dispersion modeling
Air toxics monitoring
Air curtain, solid and bio-hazardous waste incinerator consulting
Resource for energy recovery and source testing.
Catalytic or thermal incinerator consulting
Ambient air (carbon monoxide, particulates, etc.) and weather monitoring
Expert testimony

Environmental Assessments

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:17:14 +0000

Grove Scientific & Engineering Company (GSE) is certified by the Florida State Board of Professional Engineers and has been in business since 1987. As a service to our industrial and institutional clients we provide a high level of quality to environmental assessment projects. Our services include routine Phase I and II site assessments to complex investigations, some outside of the environmental field but using the scientific method to identify and solve complex questions. Our multi-media experienced engineers and scientist are utilized to provide their expertise on these projects.

Hazardous waste regulatory compliance consulting.
Industrial environmental assessment and audit.
Sediment/soil sampling and contamination assessments.
Contamination assessment report for underground storage tanks.
Community noise impact studies
Toxicology studies.
Environmental impact studies
Groundwater, stormwater, surface water, wetlands and wastewater sampling project design and implementation. F.D.E.P. approved comprehensive quality assurance plan

Industrial Hygiene and Indoor Environmental Quality

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:16:23 +0000

Public health and welfare is an important part of environmental work. Many other firms are not equipped to address the complex interaction of pollutants as they pertain to exposure or workers or the community. Our staff includes experts in industrial hygiene and toxicity testing. A natural progression of our industrial work is to assist our clients with environmental expertise as well as industrial hygiene, safety and community exposure issues. We have the team to apply our combined knowledge of environmental and industrial hygiene to assist our clients in this complex arena.

Indoor air ventilation and comfort zone monitoring
Indoor air quality testing for formaldehyde, solvents, metals, air balance, and other airborne contaminants
Microbiological investigations (in-house laboratory)
Environmental health and safety audits (O.S.H.A. compliance)
O.S.H.A. personnel exposure compliance testing and consulting
Hearing conservation consulting and compliance testing
Right to know training and compliance testing
Ambient sound level surveys and consulting
Industrial process ventilation design
Material Safety Data Sheet (M.S.D.S.) creation

Laboratory Services

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:51:47 +0000

Grove Scientific & Engineering Company (GSE) has been a leader in the area of toxicity testing since 1987. We have conducted thousands of aquatic toxicity tests on a multitude of vertebrate and invertebrate species as required by water quality permits. Our laboratory is headed by a PhD zoologist with many years of world-wide experience in marine and fresh water toxicology.

Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services Certification # E83159 (bioassay, basic environmental).
U.S.E.P.A. and F.D.H.R.S. inspected full service aquatic toxicity testing laboratory. (bioassay)
N.E.L.A.C. certified bioassay laboratory.
U.S.E.P.A. and F.D.E.P. permit compliance biomonitoring of domestic and industrial effluents.
Freshwater and marine, acute and chronic aquatic toxicity testing.
Sediment and elutriate toxicity testing.
Toxicity reduction evaluation and toxicity identification evaluation (T.R.E./T.I.E.).
Pure product and special study bioassay.
Special projects
Efficacy testing of biological waste treatment systems