About Southern Air Solutions

Statement of Qualification

Southern Air Solutions Corporation (SAS) offers our clients the quality and professionalism of a large environmental engineering & consulting firm with the efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness of an independent small engineering business. SAS personnel have more than 60 years of combined experience exclusively providing air quality services to the power, petroleum and chemical industries.

SAS personnel have provided air quality services to industrial, commercial, state, local and federal clients since 1989. We have worked exclusively in the air quality environmental field. Our background in air emissions measurement, air pollution control system evaluation and design, air permitting, air dispersion modeling and regulatory consulting has given us a comprehensive understanding of complex air quality issues and how best to solve them.

Stack testing is used not only for compliance, but in most cases SAS utilizes its testing capabilities as a vital diagnostic tool for evaluating air pollution control problems. Whenever problems arise you need an organization with the experience and capabilities to solve them. SAS offers cost competitive compliance testing. But we also pride ourselves on being a solutions oriented company. Years of experience in the power generation and chemical industries have enabled us to provide services for diagnosing and solving complex air pollution control problems.

As companies continue to address air quality issues associated with the Clean Air Act (especially the new Utility MATS and newly proposed ICI Boilers and Process Heaters NESHAP regulations), SAS is poised to provide complete air testing and engineering services to solve your air pollution control and regulatory compliance needs.

SAS provides comprehensive source testing, air permitting, environmental engineering and field laboratory services to industrial clients. These services include quality on- site analytical capabilities for ASTM D6784-02 (Ontario Hydro Method or OHM), Method 30B sorbent traps and ion chromatography for HCI/HF. Results are available next day for evaluation and optimization of air pollution control equipment. This option can yield significant savings of time and money over conventional off-site laboratory services and provides maximum flexibility for troubleshooting complex problems.Our staff is comprised of chemical and civil engineers and air pollution specialists with a depth of experience in all areas of air quality services. All SAS engineers have worked in industrial plants and have extensive “hands-on” experience in examining production processes from the perspective of emissions and wastes. Our industrial experience has been nurtured and developed by providing services to clients in the electric utility, iron and steel, printing, petroleum refining, petrochemicals, pharmaceutical, surface coating, synthetic organic chemicals, synthetic rubber, and other chemical process industries.

The complete range of SAS services includes:

- Source emissions testing
- Multi-pollutant control full-scale field trials
- Air pollution control equipment evaluation, design and startup/commissioning
- Ambient air monitoring
- Air permitting and regulatory compliance support
- Emissions inventory programs
- Fugitive emissions programs
- Indoor air quality evaluations


SAS Management Team

Stanley Arnold
Air Quality Engineer / Sr. Project Manager

Mr. Arnold has 18 years of air quality and source testing experience in the electric power generation, synthetic organic chemical, pharmaceutical, nuclear, and hazardous waste combustion industries.

His emissions monitoring and testing experience includes: compliance and performance testing, continuous emission monitoring (CEMs), relative accuracy tests audits (RATA), leak detection and repair (LDAR) program management, field laboratory sample recoveries and in-field analyses, equipment calibration, lab analysis, and quality assurance/ quality control procedures.


Glenn Quarles
Sr. Project Manager

Mr. Quarles is an engineering and project management professional with over 20 years of experience and achievements in the areas of engineering, field/project management, contract administration, staff management, and client relations that have been critical to the successful completion of complex, multi-million dollar government and commercial projects.

Mr. Quarles’ also has extensive experience managing environmental remediation and civil infrastructure construction projects in addition to his air emissions testing and air pollution control experience.


Geoffrey “Dutch” Schoenberger
Project Manager

Mr. Schoenberger has over 15 years experience in air quality and source testing projects in the electric power generation, printing, chemical processing, pulp and paper, food processing, iron and steel production, pharmaceutical, mineral processing, and automotive industries.

Mr. Schoenberger’s experience includes compliance and performance testing, continuous emission monitoring (CEMs), relative accuracy tests audits (RATA), leak detection and repair (LDAR) program management, field laboratory sample recoveries and in-field analyses, equipment calibration, lab analysis, and quality assurance/quality management programs.


SAS Project Briefs

TRS CEMS RATA Services
Mobile field gas chromatograph (GC-FPD) to conduct RATA testing of fixed TRS CEMS and compliance testing. Reference method used during the RATA was EPA Method 16. Sample gas was continuously extracted from the source using heated sample line and conveyed to the GC which was contained in a mobile laboratory. Some projects required mobile GC system long term for compliance during major modification of plant GC CEMS.

Speciated VOC by Field Gas Chromatography

VOC Process Content
Mobile field gas chromatography (GC) with multiple detectors for measuring VOC content of process vent and RTO, fume thermal oxidizer and other combustion source emissions. Reference method used for compliance testing was EPA Method 18. Sample gas was continuously extracted from the source using heated sample line and conveyed to the GC which was contained in a mobile laboratory.

RATA and Compliance Testing Services - Diesel-Fired Generators
RATA and Compliance Testing Services - Large CTGs
RATA and Compliance Testing Services - Small CTGs
RATA and compliance testing for NOx and SO2 CEMS for two large diesel-fired electric generators used for electric power generation of pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. RATA testing of several small (<10 MW) peaking natural gas-fired combustion turbine generators (CTG) in New York City. Compliance testing of several small oil-fired CTGs for a major communications company.

ICR Testing for Phosphate Fertilizer Plant
EPA ICR testing for a phosphate fertilizer manufacturing plant. Testing was conducted for several emission sources including wet scrubbers and baghouses for HF/total fluorides, total particulate matter, PM2.5/CPM, Hg (by OHM and Method 30B), metals and Cr6+.

ICR Testing for Phosphate Fertilizer Plant
EPA ICR testing for a phosphate fertilizer manufacturing plant. Testing was conducted for several emission sources including wet scrubbers and baghouses for HF/total fluorides, total particulate matter, PM2.5/CPM, Hg (by OHM and Method 30B), metals and Cr6+.

Facility-Wide Title V Emissions Testing Program
Provide annual facility-wide emissions testing for demonstration of compliance to Title V permit limits. Testing includes TRS (carbon disulfide [CS2]) by EPA Method 15 gas chromatography with flame photometric detection. Other testing is for PM2.5/CPM, CO2 (for GHG reporting) and HCl. RATA testing services are also provided for the facility’s two coal-fired boilers’ conventional CEMS.


RCRA Trial Burn Projects

Major Pharmaceutical Firm
RCRA trial burn for a major northeastern pharmaceutical producer. The facility operates a twin bed
pyrolytic incinerator to destroy hazardous and nonhazardous waste streams from the production of antibiotics. Tests were conducted for semi-volatile organics, volatile PICs and POHCs, toxic metals, dioxins and furans, particulate, hydrochloric acid and carbon monoxide simultaneously. An EPA multi-metals train was used to test for chromium, arsenic, beryllium and cadmium. A VOST was used to measure emission rates of the POHCs, carbon tetrachloride and chlorobenzene. EPA Method 26 was used to test for HCl emissions. EPA Reference Method 5 was used to determine the particulate emission rate. Modified Method 5 was used to test for dioxins, furans and semi-volatile organics. Continuous emission monitors were used to measure the carbon monoxide concentration in the gas stream. Based on the test results, the incinerators were able to demonstrate 99.9997 percent DREs for each of the POHCs.

Major Agricultural Company
RCRA trial burn for a major agricultural corporation in the Southeast. The facility operates a liquid incinerator with heat recovery to destroy hazardous and nonhazardous waste streams from the production of synthetic organic chemicals. Tests were conducted for semi-volatile organics, volatile PICs and POHCs and particulate emissions. VOST was used to measure emission rates of the POHCs. EPA Reference Method 5 was used to determine the particulate emission rate. Modified Method 5 was used to test for semi-volatile organics.

Based on the test results provided, the incinerator was able to demonstrate greater than 99.99 percent DREs for each of the POHCs.

RCRA Trial Burn for a Major Energy Company
RCRA trial burn for a major energy corporation in the South. The facility operates three liquid incinerators with heat recovery to destroy hazardous and nonhazardous waste streams from the production of synthetic organic chemicals. Tests were conducted for semi-volatile organics, volatile PICs and POHCs, particulate and hydrochloric acid, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides simultaneously. VOST was used to measure emission rates of the POHCs, carbon tetrachloride and chlorobenzene. EPA Reference Method 5 was used to determine the particulate emission rate. Modified Method 5 was used to test for semi-volatile organics. Continuous emission monitors were to measure the carbon monoxide concentration and a second analyzer to measure the NOx concentration in the gas stream.

Based on the test results, the incinerators were able to demonstrate greater than 99.99 percent DREs for each of the POHCs.