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BAT referentni dokumenti

BAT referentni dokumenti (BREF‑ovi) predstavljaju ključni tehnički temelj primene Direktive o industrijskim emisijama. Oni nastaju kroz tzv. Seviljski proces, u kojem učestvuju države članice, industrija, stručnjaci i Evropska komisija, sa ciljem identifikovanja najboljih dostupnih tehnika za pojedine industrijske sektore. BREF dokumenti pružaju pregled tehnologija, nivoa emisija, potrošnje resursa i praksi koje se smatraju tehnički i ekonomski izvodljivim za postizanje visokog nivoa zaštite životne sredine. Njihovi najvažniji delovi — BAT zaključci — obavezna su referenca za izdavanje dozvola i određivanje graničnih vrednosti emisija u svim postrojenjima koja podležu IED‑u.

Production of Chlor-alkali

Status:
Published
Code:
CAK

This BREF focuses on the processes involved in the production of chlorine and caustic solutions by the electrolysis of brine and covers:

• the unloading and storage of salt
• the purification and resaturation of brine
• the different electrolytic processes
• the process engineering of caustic solution concentration, purification, storage and loading
• the process engineering of chlorine cooling, drying, purification and liquefaction before storage and loading
• the process engineering of hydrogen cooling, purification and compression before storage and loading.

Documents


Ceramic Manufacturing Industry

Status:
Review started
Code:
CER

This BREF covers industrial installations for the manufacture of ceramic products by firing stoneware and porcelain.

This industrial sector encompasses a wide range of raw materials and manufacturing techniques, but all involve the selection of clays or other mainly inorganic materials which are processed, dried and fired. The major sectors which are based on the ceramic products manufactured are as follows:

• wall and floor tiles
• bricks and roof tiles
• table- and ornamentalware (household ceramics)
• refractory products
• sanitaryware
• technical ceramics
• vitrified clay pipes
• expanded clay aggregates
• inorganic bonded abrasives.

Documents


Production of Cement, Lime and Magnesium Oxide

Status:
Published
Code:
CLM

This BREF includes processes involved in the production of cement and lime. The main operations covered are:

• raw materials storage and preparation
• fuels storage and preparation
• kiln systems
• preparation and storage of products
• packing and dispatch.

Documents


Common Waste Water and Waste Gas Treatment/Management Systems in the Chemical Sector

Status:
Published
Code:
CWW

This BREF concerns the chemical industry and covers the following issues:

  • environmental management systems;
  • water saving;
  • waste water management, collection, and treatment;
  • waste management;
  • treatment of waste water sludge with the exception of incineration;
  • waste gas management, collection, and treatment;
  • flaring;
  • diffuse emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to air;
  • odour emissions;
  • noise emissions.

Documents

  • BREF document (published in January 2017)
  • BAT conclusions (published in June 2016)
  • Opinion of the IED Article 13 Forum on the proposed content of the BREF (opinion received in September 2014)
  • Opinion of the IED Article 13 Forum on the proposed content of the BREF (opinion received in September 2014)
  • Opinion of the IED Article 13 Forum on the proposed content of the BREF (opinion received in September 2014)

Economics and Cross-media Effects

Status:
Document formally adopted
Code:
ECM

This document addresses methodologies that can provide assistance to both Technical Working Groups (TWGs) and permit writers when considering the environmental and economic conflicts that can occur when determining which techniques to implement under the IPPC regime. This document addresses some of the core principles of the Directive:

• general information on economics and cross-media effects. Some terminology used in the IPPC regime is addressed
• a cross-media methodology is set out which allows the user to determine which alternative technique or techniques that might be implemented under IPPC offers the highest level of protection for the environment as a whole. The document sets out a transparent methodology for balancing the trade-offs that may have to be made in determining which is the best environmental option
• a costing methodology is set out which allows users and decision-makers to establish and present the costs of implementing a technique in a transparent way
• some of the methods that can be used to balance economic costs against the environmental benefits are addressed.


The concept of economic viability of the industrial sector implementing a technique or a set of techniques determined as BAT is also addressed.

Documents


Emissions from Storage

Status:
Document formally adopted
Code:
EFS

This BREF addresses the storage and the transfer/handling of liquids, liquefied gases and solids, regardless of the sector or industry. It addresses emissions to air, soil and water. However, most attention is given to emissions to air. Energy and noise are also addressed but to a lesser extent. In particular for the storage of liquids and liquefied gases, the following types of tanks are addressed:

• open top tank
• external floating roof tank
• fixed roof tank
• aboveground horizontal storage tanks (atmospheric)
• horizontal storage tanks (pressurised)
• vertical storage tanks (pressurised)
• spheres (pressurised)
• mounded storage tank (pressurised)
• lifter roof (variable vapour space) tank
• refrigerated storage tank
• underground storage tank.

In particular for the solids storage methods the following are addressed:

• heaps
• sacks and bulk bags
• silos and bunkers
• packaged dangerous solids.

The other storage modes addressed are:

• containers and the storage of containers
• basins and lagoons
• mined caverns
• salt leached caverns
• floating storage.

For the transfer and handling of liquids and liquefied gases, techniques such as piping systems and loading and unloading equipment are addressed, such as as valves, pumps, compressors, flanges and gaskets, etc. For the transfer and handling of solids, techniques such as mobile unloading devices, grabs, dump pits, fill pipes, thrower belts, conveyors and feeders are described, and in each case the emission sources are identified.

Documents


Energy Efficiency

Status:
Document formally adopted
Code:
ENE

This document addresses energy efficiency improvement in industrial installations by giving generic guidance on how to approach, assess, implement and deal with energy efficiency related issues along with corresponding permit and supervising procedures.

Documents

  • BREF document (published in February 2009)
  • Kick-off Meeting of the BREF review (May 2005)
  • Executive Summary of the adopted BREF

Food, Drink and Milk Industries

Status:
Published
Code:
FDM

This BREF addresses activities for the treatments and processes intended for the manufacture of food products from:

• animal raw materials (other than milk)
• vegetable raw materials, and
• treatment and processing of milk.

The scope includes the whole range of activities that may be found in European installations.

Documents

  • BREF document (adopted in December 2019)
  • BAT Conclusions (published in December 2019)
  • opinion of the IED Article 13 Forum on the proposed content of the BREF (opinion received in November 2018): Opinion, Annex A & Annex B

Ferrous Metals Processing Industry

Status:
Published
Code:
FMP

This BREF addresses ferrous metals processing, specifically the activities under points 2.3 (a,c) and 2.6 of Annex I to the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU:

  • processing of ferrous metals - operation of hot rolling mills with a capacity exceeding 20 tonnes of crude steel per hour;
  • processing of ferrous metals - application of protective fused metal coats with an input exceeding 2 tonnes of crude steel per hour; this includes hot dip coating and batch galvanising;
  • surface treatment of ferrous metals using electrolytic or chemical processes where the volume of the treatment vats exceeds 30 m3, when it is carried out in cold rolling, wire drawing or batch galvanising.

The FMP BREF is related to the IS BREF but focuses on downstream processing of semi-finished iron and steel products. It covers rolling processes through which ingots, slabs, blooms and billets obtained from continuous or ingot casting are further transformed into a variety of steel products:

  • hot rolled coils and heavy plates produced by hot rolling of flat products;
  • beams, rails, bars, rods, tubes and rings produced by hot rolling of long products;
  • cold rolled coils produced by cold rolling.

The FMP BREF also describes the processes involved in wire drawing, hot dip coating of sheets and wires and batch galvanising.

Overview of major processes

In hot rolling, the size, shape and metallurgical properties of the steel slabs, blooms, billets or ingots are changed by repeatedly compressing the hot metal as temperatures ranging from 1 050 °C to 1 300 °C between electrically powered rollers. Hot rolling mills usually comprise the following process steps:

  • surface rectification (scarfing and grinding);
  • reheating to rolling temperature;
  • descaling;
  • rolling ;
  • cooling, coiling and finishing.

In cold rolling, the properties of hot rolled strip products, e.g. thickness and mechanical characteristics, are changed by compression between rollers, without previous heating of the input. The processing steps and the sequence of processing in a cold rolling mill depends on the quality of the steel treated. Low-alloy and alloy steel (carbon steels) processing usually follows the order: pickling, rolling, annealing, temper rolling/skin pass rolling and finishing. For high-alloy steel (stainless steel) requires an initial annealing step prior to pickling.

In wire drawing, wire rods (produced in tot rolling mills) are reduced in size by drawing them through cone-shaped openings of a smaller cross section, so-called dies. A typical wire drawing process line comprises the following steps:

  • pretreatment of the wire rod (mechanical descaling, pickling);
  • dry or wet drawing;
  • heat treatment (continuous/discontinuous annealing, patenting, oil hardening);
  • finishing.

Continuous coating lines for sheets comprise the following steps:

  • surface cleaning by means of chemical and/or thermal treatment;
  • heat treatment;
  • immersion in a bath of molten metal;
  • finishing treatment.

Continuous wire galvanising plants involve the following steps:

  • pickling;
  • fluxing;
  • galvanising;
  • finishing.

Batch galvanising is a corrosion protection process in which iron and steel fabrications are protected from corrosion by coating them with zinc. The items to be coated in batch galvanising plants are very different steel fabrications, such as nails, screws; construction parts; structural components, tubes and many more. A batch galvanising plant essentially consists of a series of treatment or process baths. The steel is moved between tanks and dipped into the baths using overhead cranes. The following process steps are usually carried out:

  • degreasing;
  • pickling;
  • fluxing;
  • galvanising (zinc bath);
  • finishing.

 

Documents


Manufacture of Glass

Status:
Published
Code:
GLS

This BREF covers the industrial installations for the manufacture of glass including glass fibre and installations for melting mineral substances. It considers the different glass manufacturing industries and it is based on the products manufactured, but inevitably there is some overlap between them. The eight glass types covered are:

• container glass
• flat glass
• continuous filament glass fibre
• domestic glass
• special glass (without water glass)
• mineral wool (with two subsectors-glass wool and stone wool)
• high tempertaure insulation wools
• frits.

Documents


Industrial Cooling Systems

Status:
Document formally adopted
Code:
ICS

This BREF addresses the following industrial cooling systems or configurations:

• once-through cooling systems (with or without cooling towers)
• open recirculating cooling systems (wet cooling towers)
• closed circuit cooling systems air-cooled cooling systems
• closed circuit wet cooling systems
• combined wet/dry (hybrid) cooling systems
• open hybrid cooling towers.

Documents

  • BREF document (adopted in December 2001)
  • Executive Summary of the adopted BREF

Intensive Rearing of Poultry or Pigs

Status:
Published
Code:
IRPP

This BREF addresses installations for the intensive rearing of poultry or pigs. Poultry is identified for the purpose of this BREF as chicken laying hens and broilers, turkeys, ducks or guinea fowls. The following relevant farm activities are described, although it is acknowledged that not all of the activities will be found on every farm:

• farm management (including maintenance and cleaning of equipment)
• feeding strategy (and feed preparation)
• rearing of animals
• collection and storage of manure
• on-site treatment of manure
• landspreading of manure
• waste water treatment.

Documents

Iron and Steel Production

Status:
Published
Code:
IS

This BREF covers the processes involved in the production of iron and steel in an integrated works as well as the production of steel in electric arc furnace steelworks. The main operations covered are:

• loading, unloading and handling of bulk raw materials
• blending and mixing of raw materials
• coke production
• sintering and pelletisation of iron ore
• the production of molten iron by the blast furnace route, including slag processing
• the production and refining of steel using the basic oxygen process, including upstream ladle desulphurisation, downstream ladle metallurgy and slag processing
• the production of steel by electric arc furnaces, including downstream ladle metallurgy and slag processing
• continuous casting.

Other downstream metal processing activities can be found in other BREF documents (e.g. see Ferrous Metals Processing Industry, Smitheries and Foundries Industry BREFs).

Documents


Landfills

Status:
Drawing up started
Code:
LAN

This BREF covers landfills, as defined in Article 2(g) of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste, receiving more than 10 tonnes of waste per day or with a total capacity exceeding 25 000 tonnes, excluding landfills of inert waste.

The activity is specified in point 5.4 of Annex I to the revised Industrial Emissions Directive (IED 2.0).
 

Documents

  • Kick-off Meeting of the LAN BREF review (October 2025)

Large Combustion Plants

Status:
Published
Code:
LCP

This BREF deals with combustion installations with a rated thermal input exceeding 50 MW. Plants with a thermal input lower than 50 MW are, however, discussed where technically relevant because smaller units can potentially be added to a plant to build one larger installation exceeding 50 MW.

All kinds of conventional power plants (e.g. utility boiler plants, combined heat and power plants, district heating plants) used for mechanical power and heat generation are covered in this work. Industrial combustion installations are covered if they use conventional fuel. The commercial availability of the fuel on the market has been used as an indicator to identify conventional fuels. The criterion for classifying a fuel as a 'conventional fuel' is a known composition which remains relatively constant, and indeed is usually standardised. Coal, lignite, biomass, peat, liquid and gaseous fuels (including hydrogen and biogas) are regarded as conventional fuels. The use of waste as a secondary fuel is also covered in this work.

Documents

  • BREF document (published in December 2017)
  • BAT conclusions (published in December 2021)
  • opinion of the IED Article 13 Forum on the proposed content of the BREF (opinion received in October 2016): Opinion, Annex A & Annex B

Large Volume Inorganic Chemicals

Status:
Drawing up started
Code:
LVIC

The drawing up of this BREF under the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU (IED) will concern activities of the large volume inorganic chemical industry.

The precise scope of the LVIC BREF (e.g. in terms of chemical sub-sectors/products/processes to be covered) has not yet been defined. However, the BREF is meant to address key environmental issues associated with, in particular, the range of activities so far referred to in the reference documents on:

To this end, the draw up of the LVIC BREF will involve:

  • agreeing on scope, activities, and key environmental issues to be covered;
  • collecting comprehensive and representative information and data on processes in the large volume inorganic chemical industry;
  • a thorough analysis of the information and data collected;
  • the definition of generic BAT and BAT-associated environmental performance levels (including BAT-associated emission levels) for the large volume inorganic chemical industry.

Documents

  • Report of the LVIC Kick-off meeting (January 2023)

Large Volume Inorganic Chemicals – Ammonia, Acids and Fertilisers

Status:
Document formally adopted
Code:
LVIC-AAF

This BREF covers the production of ammonia, acids and fertilisers where large volumes of the specified inorganic compounds are produced. Generally, the ammonia and acid processes covered here are considered to have the following feature: the products from the processes are not consumer products in their own right, but are basic chemicals that are then used in large quantities or as raw materials in the production of other chemicals. NPK, AN/CAN, superphosphates or urea fertilisers, however, are produced primarily for a particular user although the production of these other chemicals are also carried out in dedicated continuously operating plants. This BREF covers substances such as:


• ammonia
• nitric acid
• sulphuric acid
• phosphoric acid
• hydrofluoric acid
• NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) fertilisers – nitrophosphate and mixed acid route
• urea, urea ammonium nitrate
• ammonium nitrate/calcium ammonium nitrate (AN/CAN)
• superphosphates.

Documents

  • BREF document (adopted in August 2007)
  • Executive Summary of the adopted BREF
  • Comparative analysis of the first series of chemical BREF's

Large Volume Inorganic Chemicals – Solids and Others Industry

Status:
Document formally adopted
Code:
LVIC-S

This BREF covers chemical installations for the production of basic inorganic chemicals, which are:

• soda ash (sodium carbonate, including sodium bicarbonate)
• titanium dioxide (chloride and sulphate process routes)
• carbon black (rubber and speciality grades)
• synthetic amorphous silica (pyrogenic silica, precipitated silica, and silica gel)
• inorganic phosphates (detergent, food and feed phosphates).

Other selected illustrative products (or groups of products) are addressed at a lesser level of detail and they are:

• aluminium fluoride
• calcium carbide
• carbon disulphide
• ferrous chloride
• copperas and related products
• lead oxide
• magnesium compounds
• sodium silicate
• silicon carbide
• zeolites
• calcium chloride
• precipitated calcium carbonate
• sodium chlorate
• sodium perborate
• sodium percarbonate
• sodium sulphite
• zinc oxide.

Documents

  • BREF document (adopted in August 2007)
  • Executive Summary of the adopted BREF
  • Comparative analysis of the first series of chemical BREF's

Production of Large Volume Organic Chemicals

Status:
Published
Code:
LVOC

This BREF covers the manufacture of organic chemicals produced in large volumes. LVOC processes are considered to have the following features:

• the products are rarely consumer products in their own right, but are basic chemicals that are used in large quantities as raw materials in the
synthesis of other chemicals
• production takes place in continuously operating plants
• products are not produced in a range of formulations or compositions (grades)
• products have relatively low added value
• the product specifications are defined to allow a wide range of applications (as compared, for example, with ‘fine’ chemicals).

General principles of management systems, unit processes, unit operations and infrastructures that are valid for all LVOC production processes are included in this BREF. It also contains generic product groups that are linked by common chemistry or production techniques. Finally, it contains specific information on the manufacture of a small number of selected ‘illustrative processes’:

• lower olefins by the cracking process
• aromatics such as benzene/toluene/xylene (BTX)
• oxygenated compounds such as ethylene oxide, ethylene glycols and formaldehyde
• nitrogenated compounds such as acrylonitrile and toluene diisocyanate
• halogenated compounds such as ethylene dichloride (EDC) and vinyl chloride monomer (VCM)
• sulphur and phosphorus compounds
• organo-metallic compounds.

Documents

  • BREF document (published in December 2017)
  • BAT Conclusions (published in December 2017)
  • Opinion of the IED Article 13 Forum on the proposed content of the BREF (opinion received in April 2017): Opinion, Annex A & Annex B

Mining (extraction) of ores

Status:
Drawing up started
Code:
MIN

This BREF covers the extraction of ores on an industrial scale including on-site treatment operations, such as comminution, size control, beneficiation and upgrading. The ores concerned are bauxite, chromium, cobalt, copper, gold, iron, lead, lithium, manganese, nickel, palladium, platinum, tin, tungsten and zinc.

The activity is specified in point 3.6 of Annex I to the revised Industrial Emissions Directive (IED 2.0).

Documents


Non-ferrous Metals Industries

Status:
Published
Code:
NFM

This BREF covers the techniques for the production of both primary and secondary non-ferrous metals. In particular, eight groups of metals with similar production methods are dealt with in more detail in the document:


• Copper
• Aluminium
• Lead and/or Tin
• Zinc and/or Cadmium
• Precious metals
• Ferro-alloys
• Nickel and/or Cobalt
• Carbon and graphite electrodes. The production of carbon and graphite anodes is included because of the production of anodes at some aluminium smelters as an integral part of the production process.

Documents


Manufacture of Organic Fine Chemicals

Status:
Document formally adopted
Code:
OFC

This BREF focuses on the batch manufacture of organic chemicals in multipurpose plants and addresses the manufacture of a wide range of organic chemicals. Some production sites may also include dedicated production lines for larger volume products with batch, semi-batch or continuous operation. The list is not exaustive but includes for example:

• dyes and pigments
• plant health products and biocides
• pharmaceutical products (chemical and biological processes)
• organic explosives
• organic intermediates
• specialised surfactants
• flavours and fragrances
• pheromones
• plasticisers
• vitamins
• optical brighteners
• flame-retardants.

Documents


Production of Batteries in Giga-Factories

Status:
Drawing-up to start
Code:
PBG

This is a new BREF which is drawn up within the framework of the implementation of the revised Industrial Emissions Directive (IED 2.0) and concerns the activity specified in point 2.7 of Annex I to the amended IED, namely:

2.7. Manufacture of batteries, other than exclusively assembling, with a production capacity of 15 000 tonnes of battery cells (cathode, anode, electrolyte, separator, capsule) or more per year.
 

Documents

Production of Polymers

Status:
Document formally adopted
Code:
POL

This BREF focuses on the production of polymeric materials in plants on an industrial scale such as:

• basic plastic materials (synthetic fibres and cellulose-based fibres)
• synthetic rubbers
• hydrocarbons containing oxygen such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, acetates, ethers, peroxides, epoxy resins.

An enormous variety of produced substances are covered by this BREF. Therefore, the document describes the production of polymers selected according to production volume and potential environmental impact of their manufacture as well as the availability of data. The BREF deals with environmentally relevant unit processes and unit operations as well as with the usual infrastructure found on a typical site. It provides general guidance for the early stages of process design. The document mainly deals with process modifications, plant operation and maintenance, and especially with the management of unavoidable waste streams.

Documents

  • BREF document (adopted in August 2007)
  • Executive Summary of the adopted BREF

Production of Pulp, Paper and Board

Status:
Published
Code:
PP

This BREF covers the processes involved in the production of pulp and paper in integrated pulp and paper mills as well as for non-integrated pulp mills (market pulp) and non-integrated papermills using purchased pulp for paper production. The main operations covered are:

• chemical pulping
• kraft (sulphate) pulping
• sulphite pulping
• mechanical and chemi-mechanical pulping
• recovered paper processing with and without de-inking
• papermaking and related processes

Documents


Refining of Mineral Oil and Gas

Status:
Published
Code:
REF

This BREF addresses the mineral oil refining industry as well as natural gas plants. Other related activities such as exploration, production, transportation or marketing of products are not included in this BREF.

All types of mineral oil refineries regardless of capacity and all types of process activities typically found in this sector are covered in this document. Some activities that are or may be found in refineries are not covered in the document because they are covered in other BREFs (e.g. low olefins and solvent production, generation of power with natural gas). Other activities are not fully covered because they are partially covered in other BREFs (e.g. cooling, storage, waste water and waste gas). Thus, when implementing IPPC permits for a specific site, other BREFs should also be considered. Soil remediation is not included in this BREF because it is not a contamination prevention or control technique.

Documents


Monitoring of Emissions to Air and Water from IED Installations

Status:
Published
Code:
ROM

The monitoring of emissions to air and water represents an important element in preventing and reducing pollution from industrial installations and in ensuring a high level of protection of the environment taken as a whole. Therefore, the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU (IED) addresses the monitoring of emissions in a number of instances.

This JRC Reference Report on Monitoring (ROM) summarises information on the monitoring of emissions to air and water from IED installations, thereby providing practical guidance for the application of the Best Available Techniques (BAT) conclusions on monitoring in order to help competent authorities to define monitoring requirements in the permits of IED installations.

Moreover, the information and recommendations provided by this document may help the Technical Working Groups (TWGs) to derive BAT conclusions during the drawing up and review of BAT Reference documents (BREFs).

Documents

Slaughterhouses, Animal By-products and/or Edible Co-products Industries

Status:
Published
Code:
SA

This BREF addresses the slaughter of all animals that might contribute to a significant output for an installation. The 'slaughter' activity is considered to end with the making of standard cuts for large animals and the production of a clean whole saleable carcase for poultry. Directly associated activities of the slaughter process are also included.

The disposal and recycling of animal carcases and animal waste is also addressed in this BREF. The animal by-products activities covered include treatments for entire bodies or parts of animals and those for products of animal origin. These activities include treatments of animal by-products both intended and not intended for human consumption. A wide range of by-products activities are covered. These include fat melting; rendering; fish-meal and fish-oil production; bone processing; blood processing associated with slaughterhouses and to the degree where the blood becomes a material for use in the preparation of another product. The dedicated incineration of carcases, parts thereof, meat, bond-meat and burning of tallow, are covered principally as routes for disposal. Land spreading; land injection; biogas production; composting; preservation of hides and skins for tannery use in slaughterhouses; and gelatine manufacture are also covered. Landfill is not covered, except when mentioned as a route for disposal.

Documents

  • Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Document (BREF) for Slaughterhouses, Animal By-products and/or Edible Co-products Industries
  • BAT Conclusions (published in December 2023)
  • Executive Summary of the adopted BREF

Smitheries and Foundries Industry

Status:
Published
Code:
SF

This BREF addresses processes in smitheries and foundries, specifically the activities under points 2.3 (b), 2.4 and 2.5 (b) of Annex I to the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU:

  • operation of smitheries with hammers the energy of which exceeds 50 kJ per hammer and where the calorific power used exceeds 20 MW;
  • operation of ferrous metal foundries with a production capacity exceeding 20 tonnes per day;
  • non-ferrous metal foundries with a melting capacity exceeding 4 tonnes per day for lead or 20 tonnes per day for all other metals.

The SF BREF covers continuous casting processes in ferrous metal foundries for the production of grey or nodular iron castings at or near their final shape. It also includes non-ferrous metal foundries using alloyed ingots, internal scrap, recovered products (e.g. external scrap) or liquid metal for the production of castings at or near their final shape.

Overview of major processes

Smithery processes include:

  • heating and metal treatment;
  • forging/hammering;
  • machining;
  • cooling/finishing;
  • heat treatment.

Foundry processes include:

  • melting and metal treatment;
  • preparation of moulds and cores (core-making);
  • casting of the molten metal into the mould followed by cooling for solidification and removing the casting from the mould.

 

Documents

  • Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Document for the Smitheries and Foundries Industry (SF BREF)
  • Commission Implementing Decision November 2024

Production of Speciality Inorganic Chemicals

Status:
Document formally adopted
Code:
SIC

This BREF covers the chemical installations for the production of speciality inorganic chemicals such as:

• speciality inorganic pigments
• silicones
• phosphorus compounds (PCl3, POCl3, PCl5)
• inorganic explosives
• cyanides (NaCN, KCN)
• soluble inorganic salts of nickel (sulphate, chloride, carbonate and nitrate).

Documents


Surface Treatment of Metals and Plastics

Status:
Review started
Code:
STM

This BREF includes installations for the surface treatment of metals and plastics using an electrolytic or chemical process. Many installations operate a mixture of small and large production lines, and a mixture of electrolytic and chemical processes, as well as associated activities. Thus all processes, irrespective of the scale on which they are carried out, were considered in the information exchange. In practical terms, the electrolytic and chemical processes currently used are water-based. Directly associated activities are also described.

Documents

  • BREF document (adopted in August 2006)
  • Surface Treatment of Metals and Plastics BREF D1
  • KICK-OFF MEETING - June 2023
  • Executive Summary of the adopted BREF

Surface Treatment Using Organic Solvents including Wood and Wood Products Preservation with Chemicals

Status:
Published
Code:
STS

This BREF addresses installations for the surface treatment of substances, objects or products using organic solvents, in particular for dressing, printing, coating, degreasing, waterproofing, sizing, painting, cleaning or impregnating. The activities addressed are:

• printing (by heatset web offset, flexography and packaging gravure, publication gravure)
• painting and other coating activities (winding wires, cars, trucks, buses, trains, agricultural and construction equipment, ships and yachts, aircraft, wood and mirrors, furniture, metal coil, metal packaging, and other metal and plastic goods)
• waterproofing (by painting and wood preservation)
• adhesive application (in the manufacture of abrasives and adhesive tapes)
• cleaning and degreasing in conjunction with other surface treatment activities
• impregnation for the preservation of wood.

Documents

  • BREF document (adopted in December 2020)
  • BAT Conclusions (published in June 2020)
  • ownload the opinion of the IED Article 13 Forum on the proposed content of the BREF (opinion received in October 2019): Opinion, Annex A & Annex B

Tanning of Hides and Skins

Status:
Published
Code:
TAN

This BREF addresses installations for the tanning of hides and skins with a treatment capacity exceeding 12 tonnes of finished products per day. The activity is included under point 6.3 of Annex I to the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU (IED). The types of hides and skins are restricted to those of ovine and bovine origin because the production capacities for any other type of raw material for the production of leather and furs are far below the threshold value given in the Directive.

Documents


Textiles Industry

Status:
Published
Code:
TXT

This BREF addresses installations for the pretreatment (operations such as washing, bleaching, mercerisation) or dyeing of fibres or textiles. Particular attention is given to the following processes:

• fibre preparation
• pretreatment
• dyeing
• printing
• finishing.

Upstream processes which may have a significant influence on the environmental impact of the subsequent wet processing activities are also briefly described. The backing of carpets is also included.

All main textile fibre types, namely natural fibres, man-made fibres derived from natural polymers such as viscose and cellulose acetate as well as man-made fibres derived from synthetic polymers are described, including their blends.

Documents


Wood-based Panels Production

Status:
Published
Code:
WBP

This BREF addresses installations for the production of wood-based panels. Wood-based panels includes particleboard, oriented strand board and fibreboards, where the latter includes products produced in a wet or dry process.The following relevant activities are described, although it is acknowledged that not all if the activities will take place on every site.

  • Storage of wood raw materials and preparation of wood particles;
  • Drying of wood particles and fibres, including refining of fibres;
  • Mat forming and pressing;
  • Cooling and finish. Directly associated activities covered;
  • The manufacture of impregnated paper with resins;
  • Combustion plant producing hot gases for directly heated drying.

Documents


Common Waste Gas Management and Treatment Systems in the Chemical Sector

Status:
Published
Code:
WGC

This BREF concerns the chemical industry and covers the management and treatment of channelled and diffuse emissions to air arising from a variety of sources associated with chemical production processes listed in points 4.1 to 4.6 of Annex I to the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU (IED).

This BREF specifically addresses channelled and diffuse emissions to air from the production of polymers (i.e. polyolefins, PVC and viscose) and synthetic rubbers.

This BREF is part of the series of reference documents concerning the chemical industry, which are already adopted by the European Commission under the framework of the IED:

Documents


Waste Incineration

Status:
Published
Code:
WI

This BREF covers the incineration or co-incineration of waste, including municipal waste, other non-hazardous waste, sewage sludge, hazardous waste and clinical waste.

This BREF, besides traditional incineration processes, also describes pyrolysis and gasification processes.

In addition to the thermal treatment stage, this BREF also covers:

• the reception, handling and storage of waste;

• some waste pre-treatment techniques along with their influence on the ensuing incineration process;

• emissions to air and applied techniques for flue-gas cleaning;

• applied techniques for the treatment of incinerator bottom ashes and the recovery of useful materials from bottom ashes;

• emissions to water and the treatment of waste water originating from wet flue-gas cleaning or from bottom ash treatment;

• the recovery of energy from the incineration process.

Other waste treatment methods are addressed in the BREF for Waste Treatment.

 

Documents

  • BREF document (adopted in December 2019)
  • BAT Conclusions (published in December 2019)
  • Download the opinion of the IED Article 13 Forum on the proposed content of the BREF (opinion received in February 2019): Opinion, Annex A & Annex B

Waste Treatment

Status:
Published
Code:
WT

This BREF covers the installations of a number of waste (hazardous and non-hazardous) treatments, and deals with:

• common waste treatments such as the temporary storage of waste, blending and mixing, repackaging, waste reception, sampling, checking and analysis, waste transfer and handling installations, and waste transfer stations
• biological treatments of waste such as aerobic/anaerobic treatments and mechanical and biological treatments
• physico-chemical treatments of waste such as neutralisation, chromic acid and cyanide treatments, dewatering, filtration, harbour reception facilities, oil/water separation, precipitation, separation of mercury from waste, settlement, solidification and stabilisation, and UV and ozone treatments
• treatments to recover mainly waste material such as the reconcentration of acids and bases, the recovery of metals from liquid and solid photographic waste, the regeneration of organic solvents and spent ion exchange resins, and the re-refining of waste oils
• treatments to produce mainly solid and liquid fuels from hazardous and non-hazardous waste.

Generally, this BREF does not cover landfills. The incineration of waste is covered in the Waste Incineration BREF.

Documents

  • BREF document (published in October 2018)
  • BAT Conclusions (published in August 2018)
  • Download the opinion of the IED Article 13 Forum on the proposed content of the BREF (opinion received in December 2017): Opinion, Annex A & Annex B

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