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A Standardized Procedure for a Pre-evaluation of the IED Instance

Authors: Deborah Panepinto, Barbara Ruffino, Mariachiara Zanetti, Giuseppe Genon

Published in: Environmental Management | Issue 4/2016

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This study presents a procedure, called EICS (Enterprise IPPC Compatibility Study) aimed at evaluating, by means of the calculation of three indexes, the compliance of the processes performed in an industrial plant with the guidelines provided by BREFs (BAT References) Documents. In fact, according to European Directive 2010/75/EU (concerning the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control and repealing European Directive 2008/01/EC), industrial plants must require authorizations to the competent authority stating the conformity of their activity, in order to obtain this conformity they are advised to Best Available Technologies (BAT). The aim of the BATs is to avoid or minimize the impact of an industrial activity on the environment through the prevention of the atmospheric emissions, wastewater discharge and energetic consumption, and the correct waste management thus improving the efficiency of the plant. The procedure shown in the present paper has been tested on several types of industrial plant (cement plants, secondary smelt foundries, paper-mill, and automotive industries as regards their paint lines). In this paper, the application of EICS method to a cement plant is presented: the obtained results highlight a good correlation between the index values and the real situation of the plant.

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Title: A Standardized Procedure for a Pre-evaluation of the IED Instance
Authors: Deborah Panepinto
Barbara Ruffino
Mariachiara Zanetti
Giuseppe Genon
Publication date: 20-01-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Environmental Management / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0364-152X
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-016-0657-7

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