This plan was deemed a continuous work to implement the “2021 Control and Inspection Plan for Yunlin County Stationary Pollution Source”, implementing control and management of Yunlin County stationary pollution source according to the work content and objectives to materialize management, scientific and technological law enforcement, pollution reduction and smart convenience. The plan implementation period was 10 months starting from Apr. 15, 2021 to Feb. 14, 2022. The major results are summarized as follows.
1. Materialization of Regulations
In this year’s regulatory inspections, A total of 139 license inspections were completed, and unconformities were found in 28 pieces of them, in which 5 factories were reported to have manifestly violated the Air Pollution Control Act. The total number of controlled sources of fugitive emissions was 69, and a total of 163 on-spot regulatory inspections were completed. Unconformities were found in 49 pieces of them. The factory with penalty points that have not reached more than 10 points and can be improved immediately (sprinkling, covering, road surface cleaning) were advised to improve on spot immediately. In 135 cases of micro-sensor temperature-measurement area inspections, 12 cases were still found unconformities, including 8 cases where the control equipment was not operating normally or exceeded the approved range, and the remaining 4 cases were ruptured or corroded in the discharge pipeline or pollution source pipeline. The cases of violation of the Air Pollution Control Act had been reported to the Environmental Protection Bureau.
2. Scientific and Technological Law Enforcement
Use of infrared imaging monitors to set up industrial areas to monitor high-value currents can discharge smoke images through real-time pipelines to preliminarily determine whether there is black and white smoke. Inspecting by using big white smoke images in the factory, and it was found that the electrostatic precipitator of a dyeing and finishing plant was not operating, which was reported according to Article 23 of the Air Pollution Control Act. A total of 14 flights at 6 sites in the day and night were carried out by using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a thermal imager to monitor. It was found that a dyeing and finishing plant in the Science and Technology Industrial Zone only had a license for installation, but the exhaust pipe was found, by a thermal imager, to have emitted exhaust gas while the boiler was in use, which was reported for not having an operating license. In addition, three open-air burning traces were found in Shuilin Township, which was given a warning with flag-raising by the inspection team notified to immediately go to tackle the event.
3. Pollution Reduction
In cooperation with the County’s pollution control plan’s specified control measures and the continuous promotion of fuel improvement, the existing boiler pollution was improved by 30 units in 2021, which reduced air pollutant emissions by 53 tons/year of sulfur oxides, 45 tons/year of nitrogen oxides and 26 tons/year of particulate pollutants. There were 54 times of inspection in Douliu Industrial Park, and a total of 12 public and private venues were found to have violated the Air Pollution Control Act in this inspection and were fined NT$1.65 million, and 12.9 tons of particulate matters, 21.64 tons of Sulfur oxides, 8.7 tons of nitrogen oxides and 41.45 tons of volatile organic compounds were reduced after the old equipment in the industrial park was inspected and improved.
4. Smart Convenience
To make it more convenient to set up stationary pollution source and apply for operating permits, LINE is used to provide permit consulting services, which shortens the number and time of permit review, rejected and additional documents. 257 people have joined by the end of February 2022 (including public and private venues and agencies) according to statistics on the platform, and it is still being promoted. A company may search for the official account ID (@466xkhlx) or scan the QR code (https://lin.ee/dwf3wH0) to join the “Yunlin Environmental Protection Bureau Air Pollution Permit Consulting Service Group”.
