Data description

Emissions to air in the flue gas from the CHP the power station are given for the mills producing testliner and recycled fluting that use combined heat power generation. Emissions from the incineration of rejects with energy recovery at the mill are included. Emissions in the steam from the drying section of the paper machines are not included. When mills have anaerobic wastewater treatment on the site, biogas originating from this process is used as a fuel by the mill. The emissions to air originating from the use of biogas as fuel are included. 

Very few mills were able to report any figures for emissions such as metals etc. Where data was reported the same substances were not always covered and where common emissions were reported these showed a large variation per mill, primarily due to differences in measuring/monitoring and/or calculation regimes. Therefore, this information has not been included in the datasets. For conducting their own LCI or LCA studies, users of the dataset are advised that they should include such emissions. These can be estimated through the application of standard emissions data for the combustion of different fossil fuels, together with the amount of fossil fuels used in the processes (as indicated in Table 4 and the Annex). This will allow an estimation to be made of the order of magnitude of these emissions.