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CORINAIR 1990 - Summary Report 3 - Large Point Sources

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This report presents data for large point sources as provided in CORINAIR 90.

Part I (Introduction) presents an overview of the structure of the CORINAIR 90 inventory outlining confidentiality concerns, verification studies and further developments for CORINAIR 90.

Part II explains in detail the methodology used for estimating emissions from large point sources and provides a summary of data on thermal capacity and fuel consumption.

Part III gives an overview of emissions from large point sources and presents details for the ten largest emitting plants for SO₂, CO₂ and NO_x for the source sectors Public Power Plants >300MW, Industrial Combustion Plants >300MW, Refineries and Inorganic Chemical Industries.

Large point sources are responsible for a major part of the total European SO₂, CO₂ and NO_x emissions as reported in CORINAIR 90. They produced 68% of the total SO₂ emissions, 36% of the total CO₂ and 27% of the total NO_x emissions.

Table 1: Total European emissions in CORINAIR 90

Pollutant	Emissions in ktonnes
	Area sources	%	LPS	%	Total
SO₂	9 034	32	18 839	68	27 874
CO₂	3 036 399	64	1 728 064	36	4 764 463
NO_x	13 130	73	4 792	27	17 923

On the basis of the CORINAIR 90 inventory Public Power Plants >300MW have been identified as the by far most important source sector of these LPS emissions, Industrial Combustion Plants >300MW being the next important one (see table 2).

In CORINAIR 90 a total of 19 million tonnes of SO₂ was reported as large point source emission. The plants with the highest SO₂ emissions are located in Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Germany (former East) and the United Kingdom.

Table 2: LPS emissions in Europe per source sector in CORINAIR 90

Source sector	Emissions in ktonnes
		SO₂	%	CO₂	%	NO_X	%
Public Power Plants >300MW		13 691	74	1 160 276	67	3 316	69
Industrial Combustion Plants >300MW		1 781	9	178 877	10	430	9
Refineries		635	3	58 322	3	138	3
Inorganic Chemical Industries		201	1	9 726	1	136	3
Others		2 531	13	320 862	19	772	16
Total LPS emissions		18 839	100	1 728 063	100	4 792	100

1,7 billion tonnes of CO₂ were emitted from large point sources. Public Power Plants are the most important source sector and responsible for almost 70%. The plants with the highest CO₂ emission are located in Poland, Greece, Germany (former east) and the United Kingdom.

The total NO_x emission by large point sources amounted to 4,8 million tonnes. Public Power Plants are also dominating the emissions for this pollutant. The ten plants with the highest emissions of NO_x are situated in the United Kingdom, Poland, Greece, Spain and Italy.

This report will not present full information on all point sources, due to the fact that although a considerable amount of data is available in CORINAIR 90, some is limited in its use due to various confidentiality restrictions specified by the national authorities and due to inconsistencies.