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Page last updated : 3006/2010

Polychlorobiphenyls - PCBs

Source : CITEPA / SECTEN format - April 2010

Survey period : since 1990

Emissions Variations
Emissions in 2008 : 65 kg Variation 2008 / 1990 : -64 %
Maximum observed : 181 kg in 1993 Variation 2008 / maximum : -64 %
Minimum observed : 65 kg in 2008 Variation 2008 / minimum : 0 %

Main emitters in 2008 (top 5 of total emissions) :
  1 - Iron and steel industry 45 %
  included :
  - Electric furnace steel plant 40 %
- Sinter and palletizing plants 5.3 %
2 - Electricity production 19 %
3 - Residential 17 %
4 - Chemical industry 2.9 %
5 - Tertiary, commertcial abd instututional 2.7 %

Comments

Total air emissions of Polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) amounted to approximately 65 kg in 2008.

Among all the sectors, three sources mainly emitted PCBs, others represented very low emissions or even none such as road transport. These sectors were by importance order :

  • manufacturing industry : 57%,
  • energy conversion : 23%.
  • residential/tertiary : 20%, mostly due to energy consumption,
  • transport except road : less than 1%,
  • agriculture/forestry : less than 1%.

A sharp fall of the emissions was observed during the period 1990-2008 (-64%, i.e. -115 kg). On the whole, this decrease was observed in all the emitting sectors. The maximum was observed in 1993.

Regarding manufacturing industry, emissions dropped to 73% (-97 kg) between 1990 and 2008 especially thanks to the diminution of the emissions in hospital waste incineration sector due to less quantities incinerated.

In energy conversion, emissions came mainly from the electricity production (85% of the energy conversion sector emissions) and particularly from incinerators with energy recovery. Since 1990, emissions of that sector have been reduced by 46% (-13 kg) linked to improvements realised in a result of treatments of atmospheric effluents. The drop of PCB emissions in the manufacturing industry was due to reduction techniques following the application of the order of the 20 th September 2002 (EU Directive 2000/76/EC) for PCDD-F impacting on PCB.

PCB emissions from residential/tertiary are mostly attributed to “residential” (86% of the emissions of the sector). Emissions decreased of 28% during the 1990-2008 period directly linked to a reduction of biomass consumption.

 
 
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