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INSPECT-CEM – Enviromental Inspection Guidelines for the Cement Clinker Industry

  • Number: 2007/16
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2007-2009
  • Lead Country: Italy

  • Project team countries:
    Italy.

  • Participating countries:
    Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and United Kingdom.

Executive Summary

This report is the result of a group work involving 13 countries by the participation of experts in inspecting cement plants. The considerations here reported are derived both from the compilation of a questionnaire submitted to all the participants with the aim of understanding similar and different aspects linked to cement plants and environmental inspections, and from four meetings involving the participants. It has been possible to identify some common critical aspects of the cement sector, that have so been analysed.

In particular two issues have turned to be the most relevant environmental impacts in the cement industry: air emission and use of waste. Concerning air emission it has to be mentioned here that the controls on CO2 emissions measurement and calculation are not included in this report, that focused on the controls to be made according to IPPS directive.

After a brief presentation of the cement plants in the 13 countries (chapter 1), the report provides in chapter 2 an overview of the most relevant environmental impacts of the cement production cycle, with special regards to those aspects who can increase inspector skills and knowledge to be used during their activity. Chapter 3 reports a brief guideline to perform environmental inspections in cement plants; it’s aimed to give inspectors an homogeneous and linear approach to this kind of inspections, providing also a small tool that can be used during on-site activities.



Project description

Cement production process is a complex industrial activity that can potentially affects environment with high impacts. Facing different experiences and know-hows demonstrated that monitoring only stack emissions cannot be an efficient control strategy; it’s important to implement an integrated control action that takes into account also production process and technologies adopted, as a stable and controlled process conduction is the first guarantee of compliance assurance. Besides high aggregation grade of enterprises, structured into great groups set on a global geographical asset, needs an homogeneous controlling method and approach. This means using a minimum set of control criteria and exchanging experience to keep them maintained and constantly up to date. This document aims to fix and describe the present know-how in terms of environmental controls on cement factories; it’s aimed to provide a conceptual approach and operative tool to inspectors who have to perform environmental controls in these kind of plants. The first part of the report focuses on the description of the potential environment threats caused by the cement clinker production, in order to clarify the most relevant issues that need to be controlled by the Authority. Starting from the contents of BREF in the clinker production (in its last revision as final draft of February 2009) the analysis of the cement cycle here reported is mainly based on the experiences of the participants to the project. As result of this confrontation, it has been decided to deepen only critical aspects of cement industries so guidelines treats only main issues such as: air emission as regards monitoring and sampling activities, use of waste describing minimum criteria to verify a correct quality assurance system in accepting and using them. The second part of the report is a description of a guideline for inspection in cement plants; derived from the consideration made in the first part of the report; it follows basic principles of the Recommendation on Minimum Criteria for Environmental Inspections and try to define a minimum set of criteria to plan and perform environmental inspections, in order to help new inspection authorities to improve their specific skills and in general to take to a higher homogeneous degree these controls in the EU member States, including Accession Countries.

Final report - Inspect-CEM