Air Stations Maintenance Section
The specializations of air stations maintenance section:
- Prepare specific and detailed technical specifications and requirements for the supply and installation of monitoring and monitoring air quality stations required by the External Air Quality Tracking Department, according to the guidelines of internationally approved organizations competent to do so.
- Prepare technical specifications and requirements for calibration and maintenance of monitoring stations and monitoring air quality to ensure that they continue to operate around the clock with the required accuracy and according to the specifications specified in the manufacturing manual and the guidance of internationally accredited organizations concerned with that.
- Determining the calibration and maintenance programs for stations, spare parts, consumables, calibration gases, their numbers, quantities and their exchange dates.
- Receiving stations after supplying and installing them, as well as spare parts, consumables and calibration gases for calibration and maintenance operations and storing them, in addition to receiving and storing consumed parts that have been removed from the analysis devices in monitoring stations and following up air quality during periodic or emergency maintenance periods.
- Follow up the calibration and maintenance procedures implemented by the competent authority in this regard and ensure that the operations are carried out according to the instructions of the manufacturing manual to ensure the stations are working with the required image and accuracy around the clock.
- Participation of the state’s private and public entities in determining the technical requirements and specifications for the supply and installation of monitoring stations, monitoring air quality, and defining calibration and maintenance programs.
- Checking the records and calibration and maintenance procedures for the air quality stations and emission measuring devices of the public and private authorities to ensure that they operate in the required manner and accuracy.
- Checking the records and procedures for calibration and maintenance of air quality stations before and during the implementation of environmental impact assessment studies for projects received by the Environment Public Authority.
- Suggesting means to develop and improve the services of air quality Tracking stations.
- Prepare the annual work plan and the proposed operational budget for the department and present it to the department director.
- Preparing periodic reports on the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the department director.
The procedures of air stations maintenance section:
- See the specifications required by the Air Quality Tracking Department.
- See the internationally approved specifications.
- Prepare specifications for the cabinet and electrical connections.
- Preparing specifications for monitoring devices, equipment and shelves.
- Prepare cabinet specifications.
- Review and study the instruction manual for each device.
- Determine the procedures for calibration, maintenance and parts to be replaced or maintained, and the time periods for that.
- Ensuring the continuous transfer of data from the stations to the authority's databases.
- Ensure that data display systems work around the clock.
- Prepare a comprehensive integrated plan for the schedule for calibration and maintenance of stations and their facilities, determine the procedures that must be taken during these operations, and determine the spare parts to be replaced, consumables and calibration gases, and specify the source of those parts.
- Checking the specifications of the station's booth, its facilities, equipments and their conformity with the required specifications during the procedures for receiving stations and writing this in detail in the records designated for that.
- Checking the specifications, preparing and receiving the supplied spare parts and recording all their data in the records designated for that.
- Receive devices or spare parts that are removed from any station and recorded in the records designated for that.
- Follow up on the implementation of the authority concerned with calibration and maintenance operations for the calibration and maintenance operations procedures and the procedures and requirements specified in the maintenance and calibration plan, and ensure their implementation by the relevant technical team.
- Follow-up on the implementation of repairs to any breakdown during the contract period.
- Record all procedures performed during maintenance or calibration operations in the records designated for that.
- Providing the Air Quality Department with models for implementing maintenance and calibration procedures.
- Follow-up of the continuity of the data receiving systems and their transmission of these data to the Environment Public Authority databases.
- The public and private agencies of the state shall be provided with the complete stations specifications and specifications of the measuring devices required for each location, according to the authorities request.
- Preparing a comprehensive plan for a timetable to monitor the compliance of the authorities with which the air quality monitoring stations follow the procedures of calibration and maintenance operations.
- Prepare special forms for audits of calibration and maintenance operations implemented by private and public entities to which air quality tracking stations are affiliated.
- Review the records in those agencies that record the calibration and maintenance procedures.
- Prepare special models for audits on calibration and maintenance operations for the bodies that will implement measurements of air pollutant concentrations during the implementation of environmental return studies.
- Review the calibration and maintenance records for the stations before performing pollutant concentrations in the outdoor air.
- Verify the accuracy of the device by injecting a monitoring device with known concentration gas to ensure accurate reading of the device and the correctness of calibration and maintenance operations.
- Follow the global development in the processes of measuring pollutant concentrations in the air and introduce new systems / technologies and devices in the global markets.
- Follow-up to international organizations concerned with air quality tracking and bulletins for monitoring systems.
- To suggest the consultative and operational projects required to develop the performance and work of the division and the air quality and noise monitoring networks.
- Determine the requirements of the department's employees and consultants.
- Proposing logistical requirements to implement the department’s responsibilities.
- Preparing annual reports that clarify the effectiveness of the stations' performance, maintenance and calibration operations that took place during the year.
- Preparing the department's annual achievements reports.