Air emission monitoring from waste incineration/coincineration installations using surrogate parameters

Industrial emission directive (Directive) gives the obligation of continuous monitoring of some emissions into air for the incineration/co-incineration of waste by direct measurement. Conclusions for best available techniques for waste incineration, equally applied on co-incineration, allow the use of surrogate parameters instead or in combination, if this proves to be equivalent or better scientific quality than direct emission measurement. Surrogate parameters are measurable or calculable quantities closely related, directly or indirectly, to conventional direct measurements of emissions. The accent is on models that by combining more surrogate parameters could model emissions as well as valuation of the results of such models according to the requirement of Directive. The application considered aims environmental permitting.