Updating the data of the BAT reference document "Energy Efficiency

In industry, cross-sectional technologies often form the basis for special technological processes or are important components of complex plant systems. This makes them relevant for different areas of application or economic sectors. Large parts of industrial energy consumption are attributable to cross-cutting technologies. It is typical for cross-sectional technologies that forms of final energy, such as fuels or electrical energy, must be converted into the forms of useful energy required for specific production technologies. Forms of useful energy are, for example, mechanical movements or process heat. This often creates important production prerequisites, for example setting a temperature level or air quality.

Due to the widespread use of cross-cutting technologies, improvements in the energy efficiency of such processes have a high multiplication potential. In the past, little attention was paid to the energy efficiency of cross-cutting technologies in planning processes for industrial plants, because they were often only assigned to ancillary plants or infrastructure.

In order to take into account the importance of cross-cutting technologies for energy consumption in industry, the EU Commission adopted a separate fact sheet in February 2009 on the best available techniques with regard to the energy efficiency of cross-cutting technologies. Since 2009, further developments have been observed in many of the cross-cutting technologies described, some of which are associated with significant improvements in energy efficiency. A corresponding update of this fact sheet is therefore being prepared within the EU framework.

In preparation for the updating process at EU level, the Federal Environment Agency commissioned a research project as the basis for a German contribution. This final report documents the results of this research project entitled "Update of the BREF on Energy Efficiency of Cross-Section Technologies".

The object of the research project was to update essential, but not all, chapters of the BREF.

The individual main chapters of the second outline level covered by the revision are each self-contained and comprehensible in terms of content. The German-language final report is intended primarily as a source of information for planning and approval procedures.

It has been developed specifically for the purpose of use in licensing procedures in Germany. In addition to the most important characteristics of the best available technology for the respective cross-cutting technologies, it describes suggestions as to which information should be included in the documentation of project developers or in the official decisions on the respective cross-cutting technology. This is intended to support a sensible and appropriate consideration of energy efficiency issues in planning and approval procedures.

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