# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1442 of 31 July 2017 establishing best available techniques (BAT) conclusions, under Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, for large combustion plants (notified under document C(2017) 5225) (Text with EEA relevance), Division BAT 59: In order to reduce emissions to air of volatile organic compounds and polychlorinated dibenzo-dioxins and -furans from the combustion of process fuels from the chemical industry in boilers, BAT is to use one or a combination of the techniques given in BAT 6 and below.

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

Technique
Description
Applicability
a.
Activated carbon injection
See description in Section 8.5
Only applicable to combustion plants using fuels derived from chemical processes involving chlorinated substances.
For the applicability of SCR and rapid quenching see BAT 56 and BAT 57
b.
Rapid quenching using wet scrubbing/flue-gas condenser
See description of wet scrubbing/flue-gas codenser in Section 8.4
c.
Selective catalytic reduction (SCR)
See description in Section 8.3.
The SCR system is adapted and larger than an SCR system only used for NOX reduction
Table 38
BAT-associated emission levels (BAT-AELs) for PCDD/F and TVOC emissions to air from the combustion of 100 % process fuels from the chemical industry in boilers
These BAT-AELs only apply to plants using fuels derived from chemical processes involving chlorinated substances.
Pollutant
Unit
BAT-AELs
Average over the sampling period
PCDD/F
ng I-TEQ/Nm3
< 0,012–0,036
TVOC
mg/Nm3
0,6–12

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/1442/annex/division/5/division/5.1/division/5.1.6/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-1442/annex/division-5/division-5.1/division-5.1.6/division-1
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