Applying Continuous Self-monitoring Systems for Industrial Stack Gases: International and Russian Experience of Legal Regulation

Abstract

The approaches to the control of pollutant emissions of industrial enterprises by means of automatic measuring systems are presented. The available international experience of normative regulation of continuous emissions control, including the regulatory policy of the United States of America, the European Union, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of India, the Republic of Korea, is summarized. It was found that almost all countries that regulate air quality on the basis of the concept of the best available techniques have formed lists of pollutants, threshold values of their emissions, lists of industries or types of units, stationary emissions sources which are to be equipped with automatic measuring systems. The Russian system regulation of the negative impact on the environment in terms of the application of continuous emission monitoring systems is considered. Technical features of the organization of automatic control of emissions at different types of stationary sources are analyzed. The cases of the absence of practical possibility of making instrumental measurements of emissions are discussed.