A.T.I.V. Training Course 2019 – Industrial Emission Directive (IED)

In the last years, the awareness for the environment is, righteously, increased. Environmental goals are always more ambitious and in safeguarding the environment it is necessary that these objective be achieved. The consequences of this is that the laws concerning emissions and pollutions are becoming more and more restrictive. The challenge for a glass manufacturer is the respects of the laws while maintaining the quality standard of the glass produced unchanged.
In the light of the above, in order to reach this goals it’s important to be updated on European Legislation, its various interpretations and what the future will bring.
The European regulations EU-ETS and IPPC directives have a large impact on the European glass industry and should harmonize the efforts in the European Union to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (EU-ETS) and other emissions (IPPC).
The IPPC regulations will be replaced in the near future with a new directive for industries and power plants in the European Union, the Industry Emissions Directive (IED).
The Glass BREF documents describe the EU-glass industry, their emissions and methods (BAT) to abate emissions. It shows values of emission levels after applying BAT: BATAEL.

The state of art of best practices in glass manufactory for the reduction and monitoring of different pollutants like nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matters, sulphur oxides (SOx) etc., will be addressed and explained.
The topic of combustion optimization will be discussed, since optimizing this fundamental aspect of the process is the first step for having a quality production and reduced emissions. This aspects take into account many process factors and every furnace has its own adapted strategy function of furnace type, its pull rate, type of glass produced.
An integrated approach, which includes the optimization the combustion and all the others abatement techniques, i.e. electrostatic precipitator, DeNOx, etc., is necessary and very helpful in order to achieve environmental and quality goals.