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When it Comes to Environmental and Landfill Gas Monitoring, it is Best to Stay Grounded
While the use of drones for landfill gas monitoring is an exciting recent technology, it doesn’t measure up to a multi-sensor network. If you spend any significant time in landfill management circles, you have likely heard about the increased use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, for the monitoring of landfill gas. While a drone equipped with a methane sensor can provide valuable information regarding active gas leaks and the identification and isolation of potential sources, unfortunately, it has limitations which should be considered before committing to deployment at a landfill. A significant downside for drone landfill monitoring is their limited flight times. Even the [...]
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Introducing The MT-6™ With Electrostatic Ionization Phase: Improve Indoor Air Quality While Combating Cannabis Odors
At Byers Scientific, we’re committed to helping companies future-proof their business. For us, that means staying at the forefront of odor and emissions innovation, technology, and research. Since launching [...]
How The Byers Emissions Analysis Team Can Help You Curb Hemp Odor Complaints
Odor complaints cause numerous problems for industrial hemp producers. Not only do they drive a wedge between farmers and the surrounding community, but they can also result in expensive [...]
The Crucial Role Of Odor Analysis In Designing Comprehensive Odor Control Systems
Growing populations and urban sprawl create new challenges for solid waste management facilities. Lack of space for increased solid waste may seem like the biggest problem, but another looming [...]
Wastewater Odor Mitigation: The Importance of Real-Time Monitoring
It’s hard to overstate the importance of wastewater treatment facilities. Consider, for example, that in a city of 2 million people, the average wastewater treatment plant handles hundreds [...]
How Can Facility Emissions Assessments Support Cannabis Emissions Benchmarking?
Recently, the cannabis market has made huge strides, and new data suggests demand will only continue to rise. According to Forbes, the legal market is projected to pull in [...]
How Breakthroughs in Cannabis Odor Research Can and Should Shape Odor Control Policies
Commercial cannabis is a booming industry with incredible profit potential. By 2026, experts predict the legal U.S. cannabis market will reach $41 billion in annual sales, making it roughly [...]
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Cannabis
Can Smells from Cannabis Cultivation Be Effectively Measured & Controlled?
Whether you love or loathe the distinct smell of cannabis, there’s no denying that it has quickly become a talking point in communities across the country. With recreational cannabis [...]
Sustainable Ways to Mitigate Emissions and Odor for Cultivators and Processors
As a sustainable business, it is imperative to be a steward of the environment, which includes being mindful of environmental and social impact concerns of air quality and odor [...]
Top 5 Reasons Why Knowing Your Canopy Emissions Profile Can Save You Time, Money, and Energy
Byers Emissions Analysis developed a scientific and mathematical approach for quantifying odor coming from Cannabis plant emissions at a given facility. Our lead scientists, Dr. Will Vizuete and Dr. [...]
The Overlooked Elephant In The Greenhouse-Design Room
In the process of conducting our research, we’ve visited multiple types of cannabis cultivation facilities. In Denver, we’ve found cultivators in warehouse space and ex-business parks. In New Jersey, [...]
How To Become An Expert At Finding The Right Expert Witness
As a relatively new industry, legal cannabis cultivation is under intense scrutiny by not only government regulators but also a skeptical public who is slow to let go of [...]
Good Science Makes Good Neighbors
Many modern communities have a diverse mix of residents with a range of livelihoods and motivations for where they work and reside. One outcome of this for rural communities [...]
Odor
What causes odor and how to manage it future.
The Future of Commercial Odor Control Must Be Connected, Scalable, and Custom
Odor control is a crucial consideration for waste processing facilities across the country. In fact, a lack of comprehensive odor control poses a distinct liability for these essential facilities. [...]
The True Costs of Insufficient Industrial Odor Control
It is a given that industrial-scale waste processing facilities such as landfills, wastewater treatment plants, and commercial composting facilities emit odors. What's less clear, primarily due to the subjective [...]
The Ultimate Guide to Sustainable Carbon Scrubbing
Carbon filters are the recommended best management practice (BMP) for cannabis emissions and odor control according to the Denver Cannabis Sustainability Working Group’s 2020 BMP Guide. Carbon filtration is currently the best control [...]
3 Ways Byers Scientific Empowers Real-Time Odor Complaint Management
Odor complaints and commercial operations often go hand-in-hand, especially as population growth sends residential developments sprawling closer to industrial sites. However, because odor investigation and assessments rely on highly [...]
Smart Technology for Landfill Odors Leveraging the Power of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
Byers Scientific (“Byers”) offers proven and innovative solutions for industrial-scale odor mitigation, data-driven emissions analysis, and scalable Cloud-based (IIoT) technology engineered for the solid waste industry. As one of [...]
Odor Mitigation at the South Wake Landfill
In 2017, Wake County installed a new type of odor-control system spanning the southern perimeter of the South Wake Landfill. The system has been in place for just under [...]
Emissions
The science behind cannabis emissions.
Can Smells from Cannabis Cultivation Be Effectively Measured & Controlled?
Whether you love or loathe the distinct smell of cannabis, there’s no denying that it has quickly become a talking point in communities across the country. With recreational cannabis [...]
Sustainable Ways to Mitigate Emissions and Odor for Cultivators and Processors
As a sustainable business, it is imperative to be a steward of the environment, which includes being mindful of environmental and social impact concerns of air quality and odor [...]
Podcast 14: Sustainability is in the Air – Cannabis Odor Mitigation & Emission Analysis
The SCC welcomes Marc Byers, Founder & President of Byers Scientific and Dr. Will Vizuete, Chief Scientific Officer, as they are joined by Tristan Strauss, Co-Founder & CEO of [...]
Byers Emissions Analysis – Empowering Sustainable Commercial Cannabis
Byers Emissions Analysis (BEA) identifies, measures, models and assesses cannabis plant emissions serving operators, regulators and communities. BEA provides critical site-specific emissions data to empower informed decisions and offer [...]
Understanding Cannabis Emissions For Improved Air Quality
In this our inaugural edition I would like address Cannabis Terpenoid Emission Factor Measurements for the purposes of measuring the potential impacts of cannabis cultivation on air quality. The [...]
Where and When to Spend Your Odor Control Bucks
Hi, I am Dr. Alex Guenther of Pacific Environmental Analytics (PEA). Last month, we took a closer look at molecular filtration and identified some often overlooked considerations that can [...]
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