HORIBA air quality monitor AP-380 series achieves key UK MCERTS certification

HORIBA UK Limited (Head Office: Northampton, United Kingdom), a HORIBA Group company, announces that its AP-380 Series Air Quality Monitor has achieved MCERTS certification, the UK’s gold-standard scheme for environmental monitoring equipment. This versatile air quality analyser series is now globally proven for the continuous measurement of trace gases, as it also holds worldwide regulatory acceptance with type approvals from other certification bodies, including US EPA, German UBA/TÜV Rheinland, Korean NIER and Chinese SAMR.

Caption: APNA-380 Nitrogen Oxides Monitor. Image Credit: HORIBA Scientific UK

The AP-380 Series continuously measures the concentration of CO, SO₂, O₃, NO, NO₂, NO_x, CH₄, NMHC and THC. at high-precision, ranging from ppb to ppm. Its compact, low-power, modular design means it can be used not only for ambient air pollution monitoring, but also for gas monitoring in many industries. Diverse applications include monitoring vehicles emissions, space-constrained “Mini AQMS” enclosures, industrial process monitoring, and cleanroom or semiconductor gas purity monitoring.

Securing MCERTS is a significant technical achievement for the AP-380 Series. The certification followed months of rigorous field testing alongside a busy six-lane motorway near Cologne, Germany. Independent TÜV data shows that all four certified modules within the series comfortably met the 15% maximum relative expanded uncertainty requirement, outperforming the standard by 5 to 11 percentage points. This high accuracy gives customers complete confidence and future-proofs their monitoring of investments.

“Given the demanding real-world conditions that the AP-380 Series underwent to achieve the UK Environment Agency’s stringent MCERTS certification, the results of the field testing represent a strong validation of our platform’s engineering quality,” said Lewis Redford-Knight, Energy and Environmental Sales Manager, HORIBA UK. “Built on over 60 years of HORIBA’s air pollution monitoring expertise and core technology for trace gas analysis, this certification confirms the AP-380’s high-sensitivity, consistent and dependable performance.”

Each gas component analyser is modular, enabling integration into systems and facilities to best fit customer needs, including stationary, wall-mounted, mobile, or portable installations. As well as local customisation, the modular design also supports serviceability through quick onsite module replacement. The AP-380’s field-swappable modules allow any issues to be resolved directly in minutes, maximising uptime.

Also enhancing user efficiency, the cutting-edge analysers offer full remote operation and diagnostics from various devices including PC, smartphones, or tablets. This advanced function is enabled by user-friendly software with built-in connectivity to significantly reduce the number of customer site visits; in turn reducing operational costs and minimising carbon footprint from transportation emissions.

The fully certified system’s highly flexible capabilities are proven in installations globally, where it is being used by local authorities, air quality networks, and private companies adhering to local environment regulations. It is also used across a broad range of industries, supporting low concentration gas measurements for various industrial processes; impurity monitoring for quality assurance of industrial gases; gas leakage monitoring within equipment by internally incorporating an analyser module; trace gas monitoring for ozone in water treatment plants; working environment air quality monitoring; and more.

More information on the AP-380 Series and HORIBA’s broad range of other industrial process and environmental monitoring equipment is also available here: https://www.horiba.com/gbr/process-and-environmental/products/