# 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 46: BAT is to reduce electrical energy consumption within RCF processing paper mills by using a combination of the techniques given below.

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

Technique
Applicability
a
High consistency pulping for disintegrating paper for recycling into separated fibres
Generally applicable for new plants and for existing plants in the case of a major refurbishment
b
Efficient coarse and fine screening by optimising rotor design, screens and screen operation, which allows the use of smaller equipment with lower specific energy consumption
c
Energy saving stock preparation concepts extracting impurities as early as possible in the re-pulping process, using fewer and optimised machine components, thus restricting the energy intensive processing of the fibres

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2014/687/annex/division/9/division/1.5/division/1.5.3/division/bat+46 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-687/annex/division-9/division-1.5/division-1.5.3/division-bat+46
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