Jan 06 2021 Read 973 Times
Author: David Graham on behalf of Uniper Technologies
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The Large Combustion Plant BREF requires existing plants to comply with tougher restrictions on emissions to air that are associated with the application of Best Available Techniques. The BREF also introduces new compliance and monitoring requirements for a wider range of pollutants than considered previously.
The European Union’s Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) came into force for existing plant on 1 January 2016 [1]. All combustion plant with an aggregated thermal input ≥ 50 MWth must comply with the specified general permitting requirements within the IED and are required to implement Best Available Techniques (BAT) for controlling emissions to air. Medium Combustion Plant