The Kaohsiung and Pingtung region has been the center of heavy industries in Taiwan; petrochemical plants of the Renwu, Dashe, and Linyuan Industrial Parks, steel manufacturing factories of the Linhai Industrial Park, 3 fossil-fuel power plants, and the developing high-tech industry are all located in this region. These industries have promoted economical development and created job opportunities, but also brought heavy environmental burdens upon the Kaohsiung and Pingtung region.
For this reason, the Kaohsiung Environmental Protection Bureau has strengthened its effort to manage and reduce the stationary source emissions within its jurisdiction, developing strategies to meet the emission standards set by EPA, and assisting EPA’s total-quantity-control plan to obtain better air quality in Kaohsiung City.
The main foci of this project include:
1. Assessment of stationary source emission reduction projects.
2. Strengthening emission regulations and establishing the emission fingerprint database.
3. Reducing VOC emission and assessment of the maintenance of petrochemical plants.
1. Assessment of stationary source emission reduction projects
Assessment and counseling of emission reduction projects for 48 factories was completed this year. By 2017, Emission of TSP is going to reduce by 363.48 metric tons, SOx reduce by 8,349.3 metric tons, NOx reduce by 1,927.78 metric tons, VOCs reduce by 191.7 metric tons.
3,608 assessment and counseling reports for 120 different factories from the past 5 years (2009~2013) was collected and archived for future reference. Follow-ups of 62 assessments completed between 2009 and 2012 were conducted. 1,115 comments and advices were given over the past 3 years.
2. Strengthening emission regulations and establishing the emission fingerprint database.
Since the EPA has recently passed a more stringent emission standard for particulate emission from stationary sources, it is advised to simply comply with the EPA standard. The regulation of piling sites was proposed to reduce the dispersion of fugitive dust. According to the statistics from TEDs7.1, Kaohsiung City has the highest total emission and highest emission density of SOx and NOx in the entire nation. More stringent SOx and NOx regulation are required to promote the utilization of cleaner fuels and installation of control devices to reduce the air pollution in Kaohsiung.
Even though the regulations to reduce VOC leakage from equipments and components were promulgated, the management and maintenance of these leakage-prone equipments were ineffective. Therefore, revised regulations and a “VOCs Reporting and Managing System” were proposed.
The VOC emission fingerprinting of LinGuang and GunShan Industrial Parks was complete in 2012 and emission fingerprinting of Nanzi Export Processing Zone and Kaohsiung Science Park was completed in 2013. The emission fingerprinting of smoke stacks in Dafa Industrial Park and Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone were also commenced. A total of 48 stacks were sampled and analyzed, including 8 stacks in LinGuang Industrial Park, 2 stacks in GunShan Industrial Park, 9 stacks in Nanzi Export Processing Zone, 3 stacks in Luzhu Science Park, 20 stacks in Dafa Industrial Park, and 6 stacks in Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone.
3. Cataloging of factories in different industries and the assessment of the maintenance of petrochemical plants.
Factories from 6 different industries were cataloged; 6 synthetic rubber manufacturers, 56 ship and parts manufacturers, 9 unclassified vehicles and parts manufacturers, 12 warehousing companies, 31 steel rolling and extruding factories, and 162 unclassified plastic product manufacturer were identified.
Assessments of 9 annual maintenances of petrochemical plants were completed by September of 2013. Additional 87 maintenance projects from 24 different companies were archived for future reference.
This project was carried out from October 24th, 2012 to December 31st, 2013. All work contents were completed as specified in the contract.
