Energy balance and costs VOC reduction in the sheet industry

The study complements the report of the Federal Environment Agency on the state of the art for the chipboard and fibreboard industry (REP-0438) with energy balances and exhaust air cleaning costs for particleboard and MDF production. Based on the energy balances for two standardised model plants, the exhaust air purification systems are regenerative after-incineration (RNV; compared with and without heat recovery) and (organic) wafers for particleboard and MDF production. For this purpose, the respective energy requirements as well as emissions of volatile organic carbon compounds (VOCs), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) were used. In addition, the study contains the operating and investment costs of the two exhaust air purification systems, which are set in relation to the product price. The specific VOC reduction costs are also calculated.