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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1147/annex/division-4/division-4.8/division-4.8.1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2018/1147",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1147 of 10 August 2018 establishing best available techniques (BAT) conclusions for waste treatment, under Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2018) 5070) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1147",
  "path": "annex/division/4/division/4.8/division/4.8.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4.8.1",
  "heading": "Overall environmental performance",
  "text": "BAT 51. In order to improve the overall environmental performance and to reduce channelled emissions of PCBs and organic compounds to air, BAT is to use all of the techniques given below.\nTechnique\nDescription\na.\nCoating of the storage and treatment areas\nThis includes techniques such as:\nresin coating applied to the concrete floor of the whole storage and treatment area.\nb.\nImplementation of staff access rules to prevent dispersion of contamination\nThis includes techniques such as:\naccess points to storage and treatment areas are locked;\nspecial qualification is required to access the area where the contaminated equipment is stored and handled;\nseparate ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’ cloakrooms to put on/remove individual protective outfit.\nc.\nOptimised equipment cleaning and drainage\nThis includes techniques such as:\nexternal surfaces of the contaminated equipment are cleaned with anionic detergent;\nemptying of the equipment with a pump or under vacuum instead of gravity emptying;\nprocedures are defined and used for filling, emptying and (dis)connecting the vacuum vessel;\na long period of drainage (at least 12 hours) is ensured to avoid any dripping of contaminated liquid during further treatment operations, after the separation of the core from the casing of an electrical transformer.\nd.\nControl and monitoring of emissions to air\nThis includes techniques such as:\nthe air of the decontamination area is collected and treated with activated carbon filters;\nthe exhaust of the vacuum pump mentioned in technique c. above is connected to an end-of-pipe abatement system (e.g. a high-temperature incinerator, thermal oxidation or adsorption on activated carbon);\nthe channelled emissions are monitored (see BAT 8);\nthe potential atmospheric deposition of PCBs is monitored (e.g. through physico-chemical measurements or biomonitoring).\ne.\nDisposal of waste treatment residues\nThis includes techniques such as:\nporous, contaminated parts of the electrical transformer (wood and paper) are sent to high-temperature incineration;\nPCBs in the oils are destroyed (e.g. dechlorination, hydrogenation, solvated electron processes, high-temperature incineration).\nf.\nRecovery of solvent when solvent washing is used\nOrganic solvent is collected and distilled to be reused in the process.\nThe associated monitoring is given in BAT 8.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/1147/annex/division/4/division/4.8/division/4.8.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:01.289264+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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