Completed Projects

Investigation of Emission Factors for Non-Ferrous Metals Industries, Foundries and Lime Industry (NE-G-K-Inventar)

Project Overview:

Project Overview

The project’s objective is to investigate emission factors for the year 2004 which are representative for the following sectors in Germany:

Production of Lime and Dolomite,
Non-Ferrous Metals Industries (Production of Copper, Aluminium, Lead and Zinc) and
Foundries, both Ferrous and Non –Ferrous (Aluminium and Magnesium).

An evaluation of emissions declarations in line with the 11^th ordinance (11. BImSchV) to the German ‘Clean Air Act’ (Bundesimmissionsschutzgesetz - BImSchG) will therefore be carried out. Such emissions declarations are to be submitted to the federal authorities by all facilities which are in need of an environmental permit. As further sources of information, emissions measurement data and BREFs (Reference Documents on Best Available Techniques in the framework of the European Union’s IPPC directive) will be used. Sector-specific emissions shall be investigated separated by process steps. In addition, a representative integrated emission factor for the whole production will be generated. Uncertainties will be addressed and quantified.

The focus of IZT’s involvement in the project is in methodological issues.

Background

As a party to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto-Protocol as well as the Geneva Convention on Transboundary Air Pollution (UNECE), Germany is obliged to produce, publish, and regularly update emissions inventories for air pollutants. In addition, in the EU directive on National Emission Ceilings (NEC-Directive 2001/81/EC) reliable emissions forecasts are required in order to assess the effectivity of emissions reduction measures. As a consequence Germany has numerous obligations concerning the production, reporting and verification of emissions inventories. The emissions inventories are subject to continuous improvement in all qualitative aspects: accuracy, completeness, consistency, comparability, and transparency.
Emissions inventories cover a substantial list of pollutants. The emissions is calculated through sector-specific emission factors and activity data (i.e. production). For several sectors, detailed emission factors are not yet or not sufficiently available.