3.3.7           Weighting category Air pollution

In the environmental protection law of Switzerland, among other things, the Luftreinhalteverordnung (LRV) (air pollution act) is positioned. In Art. 4 (LRV) and App. 1 numeral 71 LRV, for the mass stream [g/h] of organic and inorganic emissions there are determined threshold values subdivided in categories. For gaseous or vaporous inorganics there exist the categories 1 to 4, whereby a higher category means a higher threshold value.

Analogously, for gaseous, vaporous, or particle-formed organics there exist the categories 1 to 3. In EATOS, these categories are assigned to the values for Q as follows.

 

Table 10     Assignment of categories of Luftreinhalteverordnung (LRV) (air pollution act) of Switzerland to the weighting factor QAir pollution

Q

category

1

4

2

 

3

 

4

3

5

 

6

 

7

2

8

 

9

 

10

1

For carcinogenic substances, which emissions threshold values are assigned to three categories in the LRV, as well, the weighting category air pollution installed in EATOS is not provided.

 

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