Use of a PRTR Emission Inventory in Assessing the Benefits of Abatement Policies in Industry：（使用PRTR排放清单评估工业减排政策的好处）.pdfVIP

Use of a PRTR Emission Inventory in Assessing the Benefits of Abatement Policies in Industry Tinus Pulles and Wilfred Appelman TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, Business unit Environment, Health and Safety, P.O. Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands tinus.pulles@tno.nl ABSTRACT Facility level emission reports in Europe are available from the European Pollution Emissions Register (EPER, http://www.eper.ec.europa.eu/eper). This data set is a so-called Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR). EPER is in many respects comparable to the US Toxics Release Inventory. This study shows a novel use of such PRTR facility level emission inventory data in assessing the potential benefits of existing environmental legislation. The paper presents the results of a recent study to asses the potential benefits of full implementation of emission abatement policies in power plants in the European Union Member States. The study compares emissions reported by the power plants at facility level (EPER) with emissions estimated through linking to information obtained from a commercial database (Platts, /). This approach allows for estimating the expected emissions when all 450 power plants in the study would have installed combustion technologies that are in line with the “Best Available Techniques” as defined within the European Union’s IPPC Directive or with the emission limit values as set for new plants in the EU Large Combustion Directive. Comparison with the reported emissions shows that emissions would have been substantially lower (more than a factor of two for NO and SO ) if the emission abatement would indeed have been x 2 implemented in 2004. INTRODUCTION Industrial Combust