Risk analysis regarding the exceeding of emission limit value and establishing the type of air emissions monitoring

Abstract

Air pollution is a great importance domain in assessing the quality of the environment due to the special impact, it can be induced both on human health and on other environmental factors influence with which it is directly interdependent. Keeping air quality under control requires the use of the best techniques and manufacturing technologies coupled with the most efficient methods/techniques for reducing pollutant emissions but also with appropriate methods/methodologies for monitoring the concentration of specific pollutants emitted into the air. Similar to the regulation of industrial areas covered by the IPPC, the European Commission has developed and implemented a document that updates and explains the latest environmental monitoring methodologies (JRC Reference Report on Monitoring of Emissions to Air and Water from IED installations, 2018); one of the recommended methods in this regard is based on the assessment of the risk of exceeding the emission limit value (ELV), the method explained in this paper.