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Review process

for the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry BREF

and effects on the draft guidance document V. Primary and secondary

non-ferrous metal industrynon-ferrous metal industry

Rainer Remus

European IPPC Bureau

Sustainable Production and Consumption Unit

Joint Research Centre – Institute for Prospective Technological Studies

26 March 2012

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Review process for the NFM BREFThe original Non Ferrous Metals Industry BREF wasadopted in December 2001 and was one of the first BREFsin a series of 33 documents. Consequently it was foreseenas one of the first BREFs to be reviewed.

The review process started in 2006 under IPPC DirectiveThe review process started in 2006 under IPPC Directive96/61/EC and will finalise under new Industrial EmissionsDirective 2010/75/EU (IED)

Strengthening of BAT and the role of the BAT referencedocuments (BREFs)

ELVs in permits should be based on BAT to ensure thatunder normal operating conditions, emissions do notexceed the emission levels associated with BAT (BAT-AELs).

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Steps in the review process for the NFM BREF

December 2006 Activation of the TWG for the review of the Iron and Steel BREF and submission of TWG wishes

September 2007 TWG kick off meeting

November 2008 First draft of the review of the Iron and Steel BREF (2000 comments received)

July 2009 Second draft of the review of the Iron and Steel BREF (1260 July 2009 Second draft of the review of the Iron and Steel BREF (1260 comments received)

Beginning of 2010

The draft NFM BREF document was considered by the EIPPCB to not be ready for a final meeting which was envisaged for 2010.

November 2011 Start of restructuring and rewriting of the Techniques to consider sections and a new data collection

? Forum opinion on the full BREF including BAT conclusions

? Adoption of the BAT conclusions by the Committee

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Current status of the review process for the NFM BREF

• The whole document has to be overworked according to

new rules laid down in the BREF Outline and Guide

document as indicated in a decision recently adopted by

the Commission (see http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:063:0001:0039:EN:P

DF) .

• Restructuring, disaggregating and rewriting of the

Techniques to consider in the determination of BAT

sections (BAT candidate sections)

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Current status of the review process for the NFM BREF

• BAT conclusions and BAT-AELs proposed in the second

draft are mainly based on expert judgement and are not

sufficiently supported by the information included in the sufficiently supported by the information included in the

relevant sections of this document

• A new data collection of individual plant specific data

according to the aforementioned decision considering the

new BAT candidate structure was necessary

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Non ferrous metals BREF review and effects on the draft guidance

document V. Primary and secondary non-ferrous metal industry

(annex II, categories 5 and 6)

• We do not see a need to give so much emphasize to mercury

emissions in secondary aluminium and manganese production.

Mercury is also emitted during the production of other refractory Mercury is also emitted during the production of other refractory

metals and during the production of ferro-alloys.

• The equivalent application of ceramic and fabric filters as BAT will

be checked in the review of the NFM BREF. In many cases we

doubt that ceramic filters are applied and/or show the same

performance.

• HEPA filter are non regenerative filter for small off-gas volumes.

Used for relevant applications?

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Non ferrous metals BREF review and effects on the draft guidance

document V. Primary and secondary non-ferrous metal industry

(annex II, categories 5 and 6)

• The removal efficiencies for dust and mercury and the associated

residual emission concentration values will be revised and may

change. change.

• Additionally, the removal efficiencies for dust and mercury included

and the associated residual emission concentration values in the draft

guidance document seem to be not consistent in many cases.

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Non ferrous metals BREF review and effects on the draft guidance

document V. Primary and secondary non-ferrous metal industry

(annex II, categories 5 and 6)

• The list of furnaces/processes in the NFM BREF for the production of

copper, lead, zinc, precious metals, aluminium will not be used for the

conclusions of BAT. The reason for this is that the information on conclusions of BAT. The reason for this is that the information on

energy consumption and cross media effects is considered not

sufficient to exclude any furnace/process type

• The BAT-AEL will be mainly based on emissions to water and air.

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All BREFs can be downloaded free of charge from the EIPPCB website

http://eippcb.jrc.es/reference/

Thank you for your attentionRainer Remus

European IPPC Bureaurainer.remus@ec.europa.eu

Tel.: +34 954 488 290http://eippcb.jrc.es