TC13: Environment

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Annual Report 2021
22/12/2021

Annual Report 2019&20
22/12/2021

Annual Report 2019
13/12/2019

Annual Report 2017
23/03/2018

Annual Report 2016
20/12/2016

Vision: Protecting the planet and making glass.

Mission Statement: The mission of TC13 is to achieve best practice by exchange of information concerning current and developing techniques for reducing the environmental impact of glass during its production, use and disposal. This shall include the comparison of the results of different control techniques and the determination of best practice for measuring pollutants (primarily total particulate, NOx, SOx, HCl, HF & heavy metals) by means of parallel measurements, material balances, and round robin tests.

Action plan for the next 5 to 10 years: With emission limits becoming tighter and more expansive there is a critical need for better and more reliable measurements methods. TC13 will help provide the glass industry with adapted and affordable standard protocols, and it will help the industry benefit from new monitoring and emission control technologies.

Activities and planned actions

Read more about TC13 work at:  http://tc13.celsian.nl/

Activities in 2021

The first meeting of 2021 was held by web conference due to the on-going restrictions in place to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. The meeting had 22 participants (including seven invited guests).

The meeting first covered ICG business, which included an update from ICG on the ICG 2030 Project. The group were informed that the nomination of Mr. Kasper for the Turner Award had been successful and that TC13 had also been allocated €3000 of ICG funding towards the waste gas volume flow project.

The committee then addressed measurement of emissions from glass furnaces. This included discussions on the calculation methodology for flue gas flow rate for different fuels and a comparison stoichiometric method against the EN12952 procedure.

There was a presentation about the SAGITTARIO furnace and the monitoring work which had been carried out to measure the CO and NOX levels during the trials of the high efficiency air staging (HEAS) trials. The results demonstrated that HEAS was a suitable method for primary reduction of NOX emissions.

The second meeting of 2021 was also held by web conference due to uncertainty over restrictions in place to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. The meeting had a full agenda, and the 11 participants discussed many important environmental issues associated with the manufacture of different types of glass.

The meeting first covered ICG business, which included an update of the members list and the TC13 websites hosted by Celsian and ICG.

The committee then addressed measurement of emissions from glass furnaces. This included a presentation of measured and calculated waste gas flow data and discussion on benchmarking of NOX and SOX emissions.

The group then focused on decarbonisation which included a presentation on the British Glass net zero strategy and discussion on measurement of CO2 emissions for emissions trading.

The meeting concluded with a round table on regulations and new abatement plants.

PLANS FOR 2022

There are two meetings planned for 2022. The first meeting will be held online in March. The second will be held in September/October and will be hosted by Tungsram, in Budapest as part of the Association of Hungarian Silicate Industry (SZTE), International Year of Glass activities. Additional meetings for the waste gas flowrate project will be held online when required.

The rolling assessment of environmental issues addressed at each meeting will continue. This will include discussions on the recycling of flue gas filter dust, the REACH leaching method, emissions measurement techniques, conversion of SO­2 to SO3 in SCRs, measurement of dioxins and PCBs and the performance of new abatement systems.

The committee plans to publish a paper discussing the calculation of flue gas volume flow and may also publish an update to its paper on the TC13 REACH leaching method.

Committee Members

Abensour, Hugues
Battaglia, Walter Committee Position: Chair
Bruno Symoens
Didillon, Loic
Garakani, Meg
Gitzhofer, Karlheinz
Maier, Egolf
Marchegiani, Milena
Orhan, Baris
Pudner, Mark Committee Position: Secretary
Ross, Phil
Senechal, Etienne
Severini, Luca
van Kersenbergen, Marco
Yeates, Rachel
Aldenhoff, Ulrike
Ferenci, Peter

Committee Contact Details

TC13: Environment
SSV, Italy