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The IPPC regulations will require industry to minimise waste, reduce product loss and optimise their process. The legislation that will be phased in from 2004, will be much more stringent than the current IPC version, with particular emphasis on prevention.
Industry will need to identify point of source emissions, take steps to correct inefficient control and alarm unacceptable process deviations. Although the legislation focuses on environmental improvement, good housing keeping makes a lot of sense. Process optimisation minimises waste and ultimately saves money.
The legislation also qualifies which parameters should be used for different type of industrial discharge. Determinants are specified for both laboratory and on-line continuous measurement. The Food and Beverage sector will be one of the first to implement the legislation. Currently parameters such as BOD and COD are used to regulate discharges. Although legislation has maintained these measurements for discrete sample analysis, it has now recognised the importance of continuous measurement and specified TOC for on-line analysis.
The Industry has already taken positive steps towards meeting IPPC and witnessed how such installations can produce dramatic financial and environmental benefit. Real time monitoring can identify faulty valve sequencing and allow containment of high strength effluent which left undetected, can detrimentally affect trade discharge.
The PROTOC® TOC analyser has been successfully installed within
the Brewing, Drinks and Dairy industries to monitor and control
high strength effluent and reduce the cost of trade discharge. Other
parameters such as pH and Turbidity have also been used to identify
poor process control and minimise waste. |
