# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1032 of 13 June 2016 establishing best available techniques (BAT) conclusions, under Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, for the non-ferrous metals industries (notified under document C(2016) 3563) (Text with EEA relevance), Division BAT 140

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

In order to reduce dust and metal emissions to air from all dusty operations, such as crushing, sieving, mixing, melting, smelting, incineration, calcining, drying and refining, BAT is to use one of the techniques given below.
Descriptions of the techniques are given in Section 1.10.
Technique
Applicability
a
Bag filter
May not be applicable for off-gases containing a high level of volatilised selenium
b
Wet scrubber in combination with an ESP, allowing the recovery of selenium
Only applicable to off-gases containing volatilised selenium (e.g. Doré metal production)
BAT-associated emission levels: See Table 39.
Table 39
BAT-associated emission levels for dust emissions to air from all dusty operations, such as crushing, sieving, mixing, melting, smelting, incineration, calcining, drying and refining
As a daily average or as an average over the sampling period.
Parameter
BAT-AEL (mg/Nm3)
Dust
2-5

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2016/1032/annex/division/1.6/division/1.6.1/division/1.6.1.2/division/bat+140 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1032/annex/division-1.6/division-1.6.1/division-1.6.1.2/division-bat+140
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