Bernhard Thull

TUV SUD Industrie Service , Germany

Biography:

Bernhard Thull is employed at the TUV SUD Industrie Service GmbH in Munich as Business Development Manager in the Environmental Engineering department. He has been working for more than 30 years in the wide field of Environmental Engineering. His main area of expertise is continuous emission monitoring and he is a senior expert for continuous monitoring in greenhouse gas reduction projects. In addition, he is a member in several national and international working groups associated with VDI, DIN, EN and ISO.

Short description about presentation:

Comprehensive legislation, with clear requirements and thresholds, forms the basis for a successful monitoring of the emissions from plants under regulatory supervision. This includes a permit, which shall give clear guidance to the plant operator. Besides the operating requirements, the pollutants and the levels for emissions to air, water and soil should be defined, as well as further means to protect inhabitants from noise, odors, etc. The permit conditions including emission limit values shall be based on the local legislation. For example, in Europe the IED and the MCP directives are the main instrument zo regulate pollutant emissions from industrial facilities. The IED and MCP aim to achieve a high level of protection of human health and the environment by reducing harmful industrial emissions across the EU.

However, the implementation of the legal requirements demands a superordinate concretization and specific instructions for implementation. In Germany this is covered by national guidelines published by VDI and DIN, at European level EN directives and on international level ISO guidelines. These guidelines provide us with the necessary support for the implementation of statutory requirements. Without a consistent implementation practice, legal requirements are doomed to failure.

In my lecture, I would like to explain the implementation of the statutory requirements for continuous emissions monitoring using one of the most important European Directives for the determination of measurement sections and sites: The Standard EN 15259.

The standard is important to plant designers, manufacturers, plant operators, testing laboratories, accreditation bodies and regulators. It provides us with requirements for measurement sections and sites with respect to the performing of continuous and discontinuous emission measurements, the measurement objective, the planning and the reporting of emission measurements of air pollutants. The standard specifies procedures for taking representative samples in waste gas ducts.

If this directive is consistently applied from the outset, you achieve a high-quality, comparable monitoring of the emissions by using continuous or discontinuous measurement methods. The presentation gives a brief insight into the content and application of the guideline in practice.

In order to establish continuous monitoring of emissions, a set of guidelines and the consistent application and monitoring of these through the involved parties is indispensable.

The example using the European Directive is intended to provide a first impression of a possible solution. Adaption to the local legislation is of course necessary and sensible.