Division 1.5.1 Diffuse emissions

BAT 21. In order to prevent or reduce diffuse emissions from the incineration plant, including odour emissions, BAT is to:

• store solid and bulk pasty wastes that are odorous and/or prone to releasing volatile substances in enclosed buildings under controlled subatmospheric pressure and use the extracted air as combustion air for incineration or send it to another suitable abatement system in the case of a risk of explosion;

• store liquid wastes in tanks under appropriate controlled pressure and duct the tank vents to the combustion air feed or to another suitable abatement system;

• control the risk of odour during complete shutdown periods when no incineration capacity is available, e.g. by:

  • sending the vented or extracted air to an alternative abatement system, e.g. a wet scrubber, a fixed adsorption bed;

  • minimising the amount of waste in storage, e.g. by interrupting, reducing or transferring waste deliveries, as a part of waste stream management (see BAT 9);

  • storing waste in properly sealed bales.

    BAT 22. In order to prevent diffuse emissions of volatile compounds from the handling of gaseous and liquid wastes that are odorous and/or prone to releasing volatile substances at incineration plants, BAT is to introduce them into the furnace by direct feeding.