Conference on volatile organic compounds in gaseous emissions of industrial activities
The seminar was particularly aimed at responsible for production, quality and environment as well as responsible for prevention of companies consumers of solvents and affected by law RD 117/2003. It is also aimed at engineering and environmental consultants.
Meritxell Rodriguez explained that new facilities be applied RD 117/2003 immediately while the existing ones will have until October 31, 2007 to implement. Furthermore, it recalled its scope, which reaches from processes of coating (adhesives, vehicles, fabrics, coils, etc.) up to the oil extraction plant and refining, as well as the printing (flexography, offset, etc.) or the manufacture of footwear, varnishes, inks, pharmaceutical products, among others.
As for Jordi Solé, it presented the steps and specifications to follow in the taking of samples to analyse VOC, representative values and the expression of the results obtained.
Sergi races, for his part, explained that the solvent management Plan, described in annex IV to the RD117/2003, draws up a balance of masses and calculated from the consumption of solvents to diffuse emissions and the total emissions of the activity. Thus, with these data you can verify to comply with the residual limits of annex II; the diffuse % is below the limit values of annex II; the Total emission is less than the calculated limit or in annex II; and that the total emission is equal to or less than the object emission calculated by the system of reduction.
Finally, Lauro Gatti presented the systems for the purification of gaseous pollutant emissions from Airprotech, society of engineering and construction of equipment. Gatti pointed out that the chosen team must be technologically advanced, with unbajo impact on production costs, with correspondence to the analysis of risks, integrated into the production cycle and with no influence on the technological choice of the process of production (raw materials)(, etc.).
The main industrial activities concerned with the 117/2003 RD are the processes for the application of liquid paint and varnishes (for wood, metal, plastic, etc.) as well as the chemical industry and pharmaceutical chemistry. Also, is also aimed at the graphic arts and printing, manufacturers of paints, dyes, varnishes and glues, manufacturers of elastomer and synthetic fibers and surfaces with solvent cleaning processes.