Abstract
New approaches and techniques are required for environmental management in workplaces that emit pollutants. The best available techniques (BATs) that are suggested by the integrated environmental permit system (IEPS) play a pivotal role in providing state-of-the-art approaches and techniques to workplaces. For the workplaces that install facilities with the BATs, it is necessary to perform real-time monitoring to determine whether pollutant emission facilities and treatment facilities are operating normally and whether such facilities can maintain the optimal condition during the emission of pollutants. The environmental management measures used before the IEPS had limitations for workplaces that are subjected to integrated environmental management because they consider the entire workplace as a single pollution source by combining all media. In addition, only the emission concentrations and amounts of pollutants were monitored because only the points at which most pollutants are discharged, i.e., stacks for air pollutant emission facilities and final effluent outlets for water pollutant emission facilities, are monitored. These monitoring approaches in a variety of facilities involve considerable costs, and most of them (95% for stacks in workplaces under IEPS, Korea) cannot perform real-time observation even though some of them are capable of it (5% for stacks managed by Tele Monitoring System, TMS). In this study, the applicability of a wireless sensor monitoring network was examined as a new approach for environmental management in workplaces. Based on the sensor monitoring network, surrogate parameters that can indirectly monitor the critical operating factors of pollutant emission and prevention facilities were developed and then measured in real time to examine the status of these facilities. Surrogate parameters can be used instead of directly measuring pollutants as the former has high efficiency, such as cost reduction, and can provide reliable data on the emission characteristics of pollutants. The wireless network is based on an Internet of Things (IoT) platform under real-time conditions in the emission and production facilities in a workplace. This study suggested that a wireless network using the IoT platform improves the BAT assessment methodology to understand the efficiency of environmental pollution reduction and the economic contribution to the workplace.
Highlights
Introduction of Internet of Things (IoT)Based Surrogate Parameters in the Ex-PostCountermeasure of Industrial Sectors in Integrated Permit PolicyJae Hong Park, Phil Goo Kang *, Eunseok Kim, Tae Woo Kim, Gahee Kim, Heejeong Seok and Jinwon SeoEnvironmental Resources Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER), Citation: Park, J.H.; Kang, P.G.; Kim, E.; Kim, T.W.; Kim, G.; Seok, H.; Seo, J
This study aimed to examine the applicability of the IoT as a direct or indirect tool to manage of pollutant emissions in pollutant emission facilities, monitor the operating status of prevention facilities, identify the abnormalities in various facility operating factors, and examine of the optimal conditions
The standards include the data of all the facilities applied in Korea as well as those presented in the best available techniques (BATs) Reference (BREF) of the EU
Summary
Jae Hong Park, Phil Goo Kang *, Eunseok Kim, Tae Woo Kim, Gahee Kim, Heejeong Seok and Jinwon Seo. Environmental Resources Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER), Citation: Park, J.H.; Kang, P.G.; Kim, E.; Kim, T.W.; Kim, G.; Seok, H.; Seo, J. Countermeasure of Industrial Sectors in Integrated Permit Policy. Continuous and real-time measurement and monitoring are required to determine the concentrations and emission status of environmental pollutants as well as the operation status of prevention facilities. Effective environmental management will not be possible, and real-time response to abnormal facility operation will become difficult. Measuring environmental pollutants and the operation status of prevention facilities and diagnostics based on the derived results was time-consuming. With the development of analysis and diagnosis equipment, it is possible to measure
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