#TECP2614322AFrance updates technical rules for waste treatment installations
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This order updates several technical rules for waste incineration, co-incineration, and related thermal treatment facilities. It replaces older wording for ordinary industrial waste with the current term for non-hazardous business waste, and clarifies when gases or liquids from pyrolysis, gasification, or plasma treatment fall under incineration rules. Operators of waste treatment plants will need to pay closer attention to emissions monitoring and measurement quality. The order adds clearer requirements for quality assurance procedures, annual checks of continuous monitoring equipment, calibration, and laboratory sampling and analysis systems.
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Key Changes
- Updates terminology for non-hazardous business waste in waste incineration rules
- Clarifies when outputs from pyrolysis, gasification, or plasma treatment are covered by incineration requirements
- Adds clearer quality assurance, calibration, annual testing, and laboratory requirements for emissions monitoring
Obligations
What this law requires
Operators of non-hazardous waste incineration or co-incineration installations must treat gases or liquids from pyrolysis, gasification, or plasma waste treatment before incineration where required so that resulting incineration produces fewer emissions than combustion of the least-polluting fuels available for the installation and does not produce higher emissions than waste incineration or co-incineration for pollutants other than nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides, and dust.
Operators of installations using pyrolysis, gasification, or plasma treatment must treat the resulting substances as falling within incineration rules when those substances are subsequently incinerated.
Operators using automatic systems to measure air emissions must apply QAL quality assurance procedures covering suitability of the measuring device, calibration function and variability testing, and periodic checks of measurement drift and precision during operation.
Operators must account for periods of continuous measurement system malfunction or maintenance when applying rules on unavailable continuous emissions measurements.
Laboratories that perform sampling and analysis for covered waste incineration or co-incineration installations must maintain quality assurance systems for their sampling and analytical work.