Report on the
Combustion and Industry Expert Panel Session
Warsaw - September 2003
1 Participation, Agenda
About 30 participants attended this session. The meeting was chaired by the panel leaders (Pieter van der Most, Josef Pacyna and Panagiota Dilara). An outline of the agenda is given below:
· Report of 2002-2003 activities of the Panel, P. Dilara
· Presentation of new (Ni and Small Sources chapters) and updated chapters, comments, P. van der Most, K. Kubica
Discussion on way forward, addressing the following issues:
· Review of chapters and prioritisation
· Review of VOC data against chapters, P. van der Most
· Addressing uncertainty
· Links with industry
· Modus operandi of Panel, Emission Factors Database, Meetings
· Planning of future meetings
· Summary of discussion, any other issues
2 MODUS OPERANDI
In the future the work of the expert panel will be organised in the following way:
A small expert group writes a chapter, reviews it, if relevant sends it out to industrial and other organisations, incorporate their comments appropriately and produce the Final Draft. The Final Draft Chapter is then send out to the C&I Panel for acceptance via e-mail within a set deadline (2 weeks), when it becomes an Approved Chapter. If substantial comments are made, then the expert group has to consider them and when appropriate include them in the Final Draft Chapter, which is then sent again for approval. The Approved Chapter is then submitted to the secretariat for inclusion in the Guidebook.
Most of the work of the Panel will evolve in the future via e-mail, with ad-hoc meetings whenever a need is identified.
Action: The JRC has to set up and maintain a mailing list of Panel experts. The list will be provided to the new secretariat at regular intervals.
3 Prioritisation
Emphasis should be placed at POPs, HMs and particulate matter, both for size and composition, e.g. particle size distributions for various activities.
Action: A review of chapters will be performed by PM, JP and CT to identify and prioritise where work is needed, taking into account the priority substances and the issue of default vs. detailed methodology.
Action: CT and RdL offered to re-write the solvent chapters.
Action: The JRC will distribute to the contributing authors in the coming weeks the chapter on small combustion sources for comments. After that the chapter incorporating comments, will be circulated to the whole expert panel for comments and approval within 2 weeks.
Action: PM will circulate the Ni chapters to relevant industrial associations and other experts. Once comments are incorporated the chapter will be circulated to the whole expert panel for comments and approval within 2 weeks.
Action: SK will include HCB and PCB emission factors for combustion sources which will be developed for the Task Force.
Action: JP will participate on behalf of the C&I Panel to a Task-Group on Particulate Matter.
4. CONTACTS
Contacts with industry, IMPEL, EIPPCB, EGTEI, Research Projects (especially those of DG-RES) will be established. A first letter will be sent by the Panel to identified experts and associations to invite them to participate in the work of the panel. The industrial association should be asked only if they want to be included in our distribution list.
Action: to all members and in particular JP and BM: Inform the JRC of all relevant activities/groups and provide contact points to the JRC.
5. Emission Factors Database
The idea of the DB was well accepted. Focused sectorial meetings with experts, stakeholders and producers of data should be initiated by the JRC in order to populate the DB with EF. The DB has to be compatible with the EFDB of the IPCC.
The DB should also help in finding EF for more detailed methodologies, and further breakdown of sectors.
The BREFs should be analysed for Emission Factors, or appropriate descriptions to be included or mentioned in our chapters.
Action: CT to send a first analysis of Emission Factors in some of the BREFs already performed in Italy.
6. Work Programme
No. / Description / By whom / By when1 / Complete the Small Combustion Sources Chapter / JRC / December 2003
2 / Complete the primary Ni Chapter / PM / 2004
3 / Identify other experts, including industry, inspectorates, research projects etc. who could participate in the work of the panel. / JP, PD / November 2003
4 / Launch the Emission Factors Database for the Combustion and Industry Panel / JRC / Mid 2004
5 / Organise first experts workshops in order to promote the DB / JRC / 1 month after launching the DB
6 / To analyse the BREFs for Emission Factors / CT / End 2003
7 / Prioritisation of chapters considering priority substances and detailed vs simple methodology / PM, JP / End 2003
8 / Participate to the work of a task-group on PM / JP / continuing
9 / Re-write the solvents chapters / CT, RdL / By mid-2004
7 Other
The Panel would like to thank Haydn Jones for his help to the panel from the position of the Secretary during the last years. At the same time, the Panel gratefully acknowledges the contribution of Mr. Sergey Kakareka from Belarusia.
Acronyms:
CT: Carlo Trozzi
JP: Josef Pacyna
PM: Pieter van der Most
PD: Panagiota Dilara
RdL: Riccardo de Laurentis
SK: Sergey Kakareka