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The
guidance aims:
- To
provide details and summaries of the Best
Available Techniques (BAT) for pollution
control in the Organic Chemicals sector,
which are relevant in the UK context.
These are expressed, where possible, as
clear indicative standards that need to
be addressed by applicants.
- To
provide a clear structure and methodology
which will help operators to make a satisfactory
Permit application.
- To
increase transparency and consistency
in the permitting process by providing
a structure in which operators' responses
to specific issues - and departures from
indicative standards - can be clearly
seen.
- To
highlight areas where the environmental
performance of many installations in the
two Organic Chemicals sectors needs to
be improved as a matter of priority. In
the LVOC sector, two of the key issues
are fugitive emissions of VOCs to air
and point-source (process stream) releases
of VOCs to air. In the Specialities sector,
the priority issues are improving the
reaction stage so that less waste and
waste-waters are produced, and reducing
point-source releases of organic pollutants,
particularly intractable organics, to
water.
Apart
from the layout, the differences between
this note and its IPC predecessor is;
- The
inclusion of the standard requirements
for energy, noise, accidents, site closure,
waste BPEO and material efficiency which
directly result from the PPC Regulations
and which are the same as have been applied
to the other sectors brought into IPPC
to date.
- The
focus on the key issues given in Section
1.5, in particular those mentioned above
- The
requirement to target performance parameters
such as water use per tonne of product
and air quality impact per tonne of product.
It is the reduction in such parameters
that the Agency sees as most closely reflecting
the environmental outcomes which we wish
to see.
- A
tightening of some benchmark emission
values, including those for particulates,
oxides of nitrogen and oxides of sulphur,
in line with information in the BREFs
that are available.
To
view IPPC S4.02 Guidance for the Speciality
Organic Chemicals Sector please click on
the link below.
IPPC S4.02 Guidance for the Speciality Organic Chemicals Sector PDF (1.7MB)
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