APS can assist with all your permitting needs. Our team of experts have lots of experience with complex dispersion modelling for generator and medium combustion plant permits.

The new Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) relating to these plant are complex to navigate; our team can guide you through everything you need to know and provide all the reports needed for permit applications. The published guidance is evolving, but our team work have been providing expert advice to the industry on the approach since the beginning so we are perfectly placed to help you with your permitting needs.

APS can assist you with:

• Medium combustion plant and specified generator regulation advice
• Standard rules permits (SRP)
• Bespoke screening tool permits
• Bespoke complex permits using dispersion modelling
• General guidance
• Air Emission Risk Assessments considering impacts on human health and ecological receptors
• Consultations with the Environment Agency
• Advice on emission limit values for engines/plant
• Advice on emergency backup generators
• Human health impact assessments
• Ecological impact assessments

Having been involved in a large number of assessments for permit applications our team can provide all the support and advice you need.

Please note:
Permits for Tranche B generators are already required.
Permits for large Tranche A generators will be required by October 2019.
Permits for other Tranche A generators will be required but 2025.
Permits for MCP are already required.

APS can assist you with your air quality permitting requirements including both new permits and permit variations.

The Industrial Emissions Directive or IED (Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and the European Union Council on industrial emissions), requires member states to control and reduce the impact of industrial emissions on the environment. This applies to large combustion plants and other large industrial sites regulated under the existing pollution prevention and control regulations. These are known as Part A installations and are regulated by the Environment Agency (England), Natural Resources Wales and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

Types of facilities include:

• Energy from Waste (EfW)
• Incineration
• Anaerobic Digestion (AD)
• Gasification
• Large combustion plant (>50MWth)

APS can support with:

• reviews of conditions
• air dispersion modelling
• odour management planning
• Review of potential point source emissions for air emissions
• Assessment against BAT or BREF documents, especially where tighter emission limit values are assigned
• Air dispersion modelling studies
• Ambient air quality monitoring in support of planning and permitting applications
• Air emission permit reports
• Screening assessments
• Consultations with the Environment Agency
• Human health impact assessments
• Ecological impact assessments

Many developments include centralied energy plant comprising of either/both boiler and CHP plant. Many of these systems require permits to operate.

• Were boiler plant are greater than 1MWth (input) in size they require an MCP permit.
• Where CHP or CCHP plant are installed which cumaltively are greater than 1MWth (input) in size they require a Specified Generator permit. This is equivalent to approximately 350kWel output.

APS can support you with:

• advice on parameters which trigger the need for permits
• guidance on emissions limits which will be required
• detailed dispersion modelling where it is required
• stack height calculations
• support with the permit process
• advice on whether Standard Rules Permits (SRPs) are available
• Screening tool
• Full permit air emission report to support the application
• Consultations with the Environment Agency

The Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) aims to reduce pollution from agricultural activity by controlling emissions. Part B3.5 of the regulations requires new bespoke intensive farming installations to apply for a permit from the Environment Agency.  This includes facilities rearing more than 2,000 (above 30 kg) or 750 sow places (including served gilts) and facilities with more than 40,000 places for poultry.

APS can assist with air quality and odour assessments for permit applications of agricultural developments. These may include the assessment of a range of pollution sources and methods of assessment, for which APS is well suited to help.

We can assist with:

• reviews of conditions
• air dispersion modelling
• odour dispersion modelling studies
• odour management planning
• Review of potential point source emissions for air emissions
• Assessment against BAT or BREF documents, especially where tighter emission limit values are assigned
• Reviewing and recommending dust control methods
• Air dispersion modelling studies
• Ambient air quality monitoring in support of planning and permitting applications
• Air emission permit reports
• Screening assessments
• Consultations with the Environment Agency
• Human health impact assessments
• Ecological impact assessments