# Commission Implementing Decision of 9 October 2014 establishing best available techniques (BAT) conclusions, under Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions, for the refining of mineral oil and gas (notified under document C(2014) 7155) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/738/EU), Division: SCOPE Extent: E+W+S+N.I. These BAT conclusions cover certain industrial activities specified in Section 1.2 of Annex I to Directive 2010/75/EU, namely ‘1.2. Refining of mineral oil and gas’. In particular, these BAT conclusions cover the following processes and activities: Activity Subactivities or processes included in activity Alkylation All alkylation processes: hydrofluoric acid (HF), sulphuric acid (H2SO4) and solid-acid Base oil production Deasphalting, aromatic extraction, wax processing and lubricant oil hydrofinishing Bitumen production All techniques from storage to final product additives Catalytic cracking All types of catalytic cracking units such as fluid catalytic cracking Catalytic reforming Continuous, cyclic and semi-regenerative catalytic reforming Coking Delayed and fluid coking processes. Coke calcination Cooling Cooling techniques applied in refineries Desalting Desalting of crude oil Combustion units for energy production Combustion units burning refinery fuels, excluding units using only conventional or commercial fuels Etherification Production of chemicals (e.g. alcohols and ethers such as MTBE, ETBE and TAME) used as motor fuels additives Gas separation Separation of light fractions of the crude oil e.g. refinery fuel gas (RFG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) Hydrogen consuming processes Hydrocracking, hydrorefining, hydrotreatments, hydroconversion, hydroprocessing and hydrogenation processes Hydrogen production Partial oxidation, steam reforming, gas heated reforming and hydrogen purification Isomerisation Isomerisation of hydrocarbon compounds C4, C5 and C6 Natural gas plants Natural gas (NG) processing including liquefaction of NG Polymerisation Polymerisation, dimerisation and condensation Primary distillation Atmospheric and vacuum distillation Product treatments Sweetening and final product treatments Storage and handling of refinery materials Storage, blending, loading and unloading of refinery materials Visbreaking and other thermal conversions Thermal treatments such as visbreaking or thermal gas oil process Waste gas treatment Techniques to reduce or abate emissions to air Waste water treatment Techniques to treat waste water prior to release Waste management Techniques to prevent or reduce the generation of waste These BAT conclusions do not address the following activities or processes: the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas; the transportation of crude oil and natural gas; the marketing and distribution of products. Other reference documents which may be relevant for the activities covered by these BAT conclusions are the following: Reference document Subject Common Waste Water and Waste Gas Treatment/Management Systems in the Chemical Sector (CWW) Waste water management and treatment techniques Industrial Cooling Systems (ICS) Cooling processes Economics and Cross-media Effects (ECM) Economics and cross-media effects of techniques Emissions from Storage (EFS) Storage, blending, loading and unloading of refinery materials Energy Efficiency (ENE) Energy efficiency and integrated refinery management Large Combustion Plants (LCP) Combustion of conventional and commercial fuels Large Volume Inorganic Chemicals — Ammonia, Acids and Fertilisers Industries (LVIC-AAF) Steam reforming and hydrogen purification Large Volume Organic Chemical Industry (LVOC) Etherification process (MTBE, ETBE and TAME production) Waste Incineration (WI) Waste incineration Waste Treatment (WT) Waste treatment General Principles of Monitoring (MON) Monitoring of emissions to air and water --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2014/738/annex/division/1 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-738/annex/division-1 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.