Even though offensive odor control law was enforced in 2005, the civil appeal of odor doesn’t decrease all parts of the country. On Effluent Quality Standard site, the reason why the civil appeal is filed could be the restriction which is regulated by odor concentration(dilution threshold) without considering odor emission.
When regulating odor concentration only, the different scenarios were considered and analyzed for diffuse form through odor concentration, stack height and flow rate using AERSCREEN. Oder compounds from the analyzed scenarios were fluctuated by not only odor concentration but flow rate. Therefore, flow rate regulation introduction is necessary because odor concentration regulation of Effluent Quality Standard doesn’t make the civil appeal reduce.
Now, Odor Effluent Quality Standard is managed by Effluent Quality Standard like air pollutants in Korea. It means, the concept conversion of Receptor-centric is need for preventing civil appeal and complaint of odor. For the odor management of receptor-centric, workplace emission is regulated in accordance with odor concentration at receptor. but it’s hard to regulate all of workplace respectively because all workplace condition is different each other In Japan, odor diffusion modeling for calculating the causal relationship between receptor and emission is used for the method to figure out the problem. By expanding odor automatic monitoring network that some of local governments have, odor emission management and continues receptor current status analysis are needed to combine and operate for resolving odor problem.