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Staff
Managing director:
Toon Van Elst
Key consultants: Gert De
Bruyn, Griet Philips, Daphné Vyvey
Assistant consultant/sampling coordinator:
Maud Baron
Coordinator chemical analyses: Pieter Segers
Administration: Chantal
Thevissen
 Toon
Van Elst, managing director PRG Odournet NV
Toon van Elst is the senior consultant and managing director
of PRG Odournet NV.
He was born in Belgium in 1970. He graduated as an environmental
engineer at the University of Ghent in 1994. He then joined
the laboratory of Organic Chemistry at this University to carry
out research contracts for industries that aimed to resolve
odour annoyance issues. He specialised in the chemical point
perspective on solving odour problems and gained some very specific
experience in gas chromatography and mass-spectrometry.
During his academic and consultancy career, Toon Van Elst acquired
a detailed understanding of all issues relating to odour assessment
and management in various types of industries. He has been particularly
involved in odour issues from wastewater treatment, food processing,
domestic waste processing, manure processing, intensive livestock
farming, composting processes (VFG waste, green waste, mushroom
compost), petroleum refining, non-ferrous metal industry, breweries,
etc.
In the process of delivering these projects over these years,
he gained direct experience in providing consultancy and advice,
including emission and immission measurements, exposure assessment,
ambient air measurements, dispersion model calculations, ventilation
specification and abatement technique advice and selection for
a very broad range of industries.
The Flemish minister of Environmental affairs granted him the
official authorisation to act as an expert in the domain of
‘air’, in 1999.
In addition to consultancy work for industry, Toon completed
some major odour related projects for the Flemish environmental
agency, Aminal. These projects involved integrated odour auditing
for industrial areas with different odour sources, a large enquiry
to determine the percentage of odour nuisance in Flanders, the
preparation of specific odour standards for some defined prioritary
sectors of industry, a procedure for handling odour complaints
and finally the influence of cumulation of odour on the perceived
nuisance.
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