# Commission Implementing Decision of 26 September 2014 establishing the best available techniques (BAT) conclusions, under Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, for the production of pulp, paper and board (notified under document C(2014) 6750) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/687/EU), Division BAT 19: In order to reduce emissions of pollutants into receiving waters from the whole mill, BAT is to use TCF or modern ECF bleaching (see description in Section 1.7.2.1), and a suitable combination of the techniques specified in BAT 13, BAT 14, BAT 15 and BAT 16 and of the techniques given below.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Technique
Description
Applicability
a
Modified cooking before bleaching
See Section 1.7.2.1
Generally applicable
b
Oxygen delignification before bleaching
c
Closed brown stock screening and efficient brown stock washing
d
Partial process water recycling in the bleach plant
Water recycling may be limited due to incrustation in bleaching
e
Effective spill monitoring and containment with a suitable recovery system
Generally applicable
f
Maintaining sufficient black liquor evaporation and recovery boiler capacity to cope with peak loads
Generally applicable
g
Stripping the contaminated (foul) condensates and reusing the condensates in the process

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2014/687/annex/division/9/division/1.2/division/1.2.1/division/bat+19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-687/annex/division-9/division-1.2/division-1.2.1/division-bat+19
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