Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control „TA Luft“

1 WwwEmission German LegislationTechnical Instructions on Air Quality Control TA luft wwwTechnical Instructions on AirQuality Control TA luft GeneralSpecific:Cement ProductionPlantComponents & Limit ValuesMeasuring and Monitoring of EmissionsDustInorganic Particle MatterInorganic Gaseous SubstancesOrganic Substances - General-Class IOrganic Substances- Class IICancerogenic SubstancesFibresMutagenic SubstancesOthersEMIBImSchG- bersichtEmission German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtFirst General Administrative RegulationPertaining the Federal Immission Control Act( Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control TA luft )The TA- luft substantiates the interpretation of the requirementsfor installations subject to licensing for administrationThe following provisions contain emission standards which can be avoided by applyingthe best available techniques (BAT), requirements to emission reduction in compliance with BAT, other requirements to provide precautions against harmful effectsof air pollutants on the environment, methods to determine emissions and requirements to the disposal of waste bersichtEmission German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- Requirements to Emission Total Dust, including Micro DustThe dust emissions contained in waste gas may not exceed amass flow kg/hor a mass concentration of20 with a mass flow smaller than or equal to kg/h, amass concentration of g/m in the waste gas may not be German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- Inorganic Particle MatterClass I mercury and thallium and their compounds,to be indicated as Hg and Tlmass flow, per g/hor mass concentration, per mg/m.

2 Class II lead, cobalt, nickel, selenium and tellurium and their compounds,to be indicated as Pb, Co, Ni, Se, Temass g/hor mass mg/m ;Class III antimony, chromium, easily soluble cyanides and fluorides ( NaCN, NaF), copper, manganese, vanadium, tin and their compounds,to be indicated as Sb, Cr, CN, F, Cu, Mn, V and Snmass flow5 g/hor mass concentration1 mg/m .Emission German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- Gaseous SubstancesClass I arsine, cyanogen chloride, phosgene, phosphinemass flow per g/hor mass concentration per mg/m ;Class II bromine and its gaseous compounds (as HBr), chlorine, hydrocyanic acid,fluorine and its gaseous compounds (as HF), hydrogen sulphidemass flow per substance15 g/hor mass concentration per substance3 mg/m ;Class III ammonia, gaseous inorganic compounds of chlorine, mass flow per kg/hor mass concentration per substance30 mg/m ;Class IV sulphur oxides (SO2+ SO3,asSO2), nitrogen oxides (NO + NO2as NO2)mass flow per kg/hor mass concentration per g/m.

3 Emission German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- SubstancesWith regard to organic substances contained in waste gas, except organic particle matter,a total mass flow kg/hor a total mass concentration of50 mg/m ,each of which to be indicated as total carbon, may not be the mass flow or the mass concentration for total carbon, the organicsubstances allocated to classes I or II, may not exceed the following massconcentrations or mass flows, each of which to be indicated as mass of organic substances:Class I (components of Annex 4 TA- luft )mass kg/hor mass concentration20 mg/m ;Emission German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- SubstancesClass II 1-bromo-3-chloropropane 1,1-dichloroethane 1,2-dichloroethylene, cis and trans ethanoic acid methyl formiate nitroethane nitromethane octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane 1,1,1-trichloroethane 1,3,5-trioxanemass kg/hor mass g/m.

4 Emission German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- Carcinogenic SubstancesClass I arsenic and cadmium and their compounds (except for arsine, as As, as Cd) water-solutable compounds of cobalt(as Co), chromium (VI) compounds (as Cr) benzo(a)pyrenemass g/hor mass mg/m ;Class II acrylamide, acrylonitrile, dinitrotoluenes, ethylene oxide nickel and some nickel compounds 4-vinyl-1,2-cyclohexene-diepoxydmass g/hor mass mg/m ;Class III benzene,bromoethane, 1,3-butadiene, 1,2-dichloroethane, 1,2-propylene oxide,styrene oxide, o-toluidine, trichloroethene, vinyl chloridemass g/hor mass concentration1 mg/m .Emission German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- bersichtFibres asbestos fibres1x104fibres/m ( chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite), biopersistent ceramic ( consisting of aluminium silicate, aluminium oxide,silicon carbide, potassium titanate)

5 Biopersistent mineral fibres5x104fibres/m , Mutagenic Reproduction Toxic Slowly Degradable, Accumulative and Highly Toxic Organic SubstancesThe dioxins and furans listed in Annex 5, to be indicated as totals pursuanta mass flow in waste gas g/hor a mass concentration in waste gas ng/m ,as a minimum German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- and Monitoring Mass flow thresholds for continuous monitoringFacilities with particles mass flows of 1 to 3 kg/h shall be equipped with measuringinstruments at their relevant sources which are capable of continuously monitoringthe functioning of the waste gas purification facility and the established emission limits(qualitative measuring instruments).Facilities with particles mass flows of over 3 kg/h shall be equipped withmeasuring instruments at their relevantsources which continuously determinedust emission mass German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- and Monitoring Mass flow thresholds for continuous monitoringAt facilities emitting gaseous substances in excess of the following mass flows,relevant sources shall be equipped with measuring instruments which continuouslydetermine the mass concentrations of the respective substances.

6 SO230 kg/h, NO + NO2, to be indicated as NO230 kg/h, CO as lead substance for evaluating the efficiency of combustionprocesses5 kg/h, CO, all other cases100 kg/h, fluorine and gaseous inorganic fluorine compounds (as HF) kg/h, gaseous inorganic chlorine compounds (as HCl) kg/h, kg/h, hydrogen German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- bersichtFacilities with mass flows of organic substances, to be indicated as total carbon,exceeding for substances under Class I1 kg/h, substances under kg/hshall be equipped with measuring instruments at their relevant sources whichcontinuously determine the total with mass flows of mercury and its compounds of over g/h,to be indicated as Hg, shall be equipped with measuring instruments at theirrelevant sources which continuously determine mercury mass concentrations,unless it has been reliably proven that the mass concentrations are lessthan 20 per cent of those specified in Class and Monitoring EmissionsEmission German LegislationTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- Provisions for Certain Types of Rock and Soil, Glass.

7 Ceramics and Building Facilities under :Facilities for the Production of Cement Clinkers or Cements,insofar as Fuels under are Used ExclusivelySTORAGEC linker materials shall be stored in silos or enclosed areasequipped with exhaust and dedusting VALUESE mission standards shall refer to a volume content of oxygenin the waste gas of 10 per German Facilities under :AMMONIAThe requirements in shall not apply to ammonia wastes with relevant quantities of substances containingammonium are used as raw materials and their use is notregulated by the Ordinance on Incinerators for Waste andSimilar Combustible Materials, as currently applicable, thematerials shall be put into the furnace entrance or the OXIDESE missions of nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide in the wastegas from cement furnaces shall not exceed a mass concentrationof g/m , to be indicated as nitrogen best available techniques to further reduce emissions,particularly by using improved combustion, shall be bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- bersicht(Production of Cement Clinkers or Cements)Emission German Facilities under :ORGANIC SUBSTANCESThe requirements under shall not apply.

8 Insofar as wastescontaining relevant quantities of organic substances are usedas raw materials and their use is not regulated by the 17. BImSchV,as currently applicable, the materials shall be put into the furnaceentrance or the shall apply, provided that emissions of benzene in thewaste gas from cement furnaces shall not exceed a massconcentration of 1 mg/m if possible, and shall not exceed amass concentration of 5 mg/m .CONTINUOUS MEASURINGThe requirements under shall not apply to emissions ofcarbon monoxide, fluorine and inorganic gaseous fluorinecompounds and inorganic gaseous chlorine bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- bersicht(Production of Cement Clinkers or Cements)EndTA- luft - bersichtwwwEMIBImSchG- bersicht