ESWET’s Hubert de Chefdebien to Cover Emissions & Monitoring : New Waste to Energy BATAELs to be Explained at London Conference
The nature of the new BATAELs (BAT Associated Emission Levels), which become capping values for Emission Limit Values (ELVs), is to be the focus of a keynote address from Hubert de Chefdebien, Chairman of the European Suppliers of Waste to Energy Technology (ESWET) at the forthcoming Energy from Waste Conference in London.
Taking place on 8-9 December the conference will have a number of high lever speakers addressing regulatory guidance and the impact of the circular economy on energy from waste.
de Chefdebien’s presentation will explain the revision of the Waste Incineration BREF
(BAT Reference document) under IED (Industrial Emission Directive).
He will also cover the INERIS report: Performances of the available monitoring systems (uncertainties) – Minimum achievable ELVs in respect of monitoring.
The report addresses the question of monitoring of air emissions and of reliability and accuracy at very low concentrations, which has significant implications on the drawing up and review of BREFs and the setting of BATAELs.
The research found that The waste incineration (WI) sector has unrivalled experience in dealing with monitoring issues, because:
The number of monitored substances according to EU regulations (in particular IED Annex VI) is larger than for any other sector
The ELVs are by far the lowest of all IED industries
The IED requirements for compliance with ELVs are specific, detailed and complex
All WI plants in the EU had to comply with these stringent rules for at least 10 years, collecting more than one billion individual emission values.
Due to this experience the report identified a problem linked to the nature of legally binding BATAELS (IED-based BATAELs). Since they are derived from – most often very low – operational values but at the same time will be the basis to set ELVs in permits, it is mandatory to check the performances (in particular the accuracy) of the monitoring and measurement techniques/systems available today (and exclusively these).
In his presentation de Chefdebien will explain how to handle the monitoring issue in the BREF review process.
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Deriving Waste Incineration BATAELS Under 21st Century Legislation
The second in a series of WMW articles on the Waste Incineration Best Available Techniques Reference Document tackles the specific features of the sector when it comes to deriving new BATAELs during the review of the WI-BREF and specifically its BAT-Conclusions. By Hubert de Chefdebien and Guillaume Perron-Piché.
