Incinerators

(asked on 23rd April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2018 to Question 135379 on 19th April 2018, what the reason is for the question on Form PI-1 - Pollution Inventory Reporting which requires operators of many industrial processes to report separately on emissions of PM10 and PM2.5 when there is no commercially available equipment for the continuous monitoring of PM10 and PM2.5.


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Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 1st May 2018

If emissions of a particular pollutant are not (or cannot be) measured directly, they can often be estimated by the use of emission factors (EFs), for example the amount of pollutant released from a power station per tonne of fuel burned. The Pollution Inventory Guidance for incineration activities specifies some EFs which can be used to calculate PM10 and PM2.5 based on the amount of waste burned. However, the source data for these EFs is out of date, dating from 2000, and modern incinerators will produce far lower levels of PM10 and PM2.5 following the introduction of highly-efficient fabric filters which all incinerators are now equipped with.

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