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GUIDANCE DOCUMENT FOR REPORTING OF RELEASES FROM THE BASE METALS SMELTING SECTOR |
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ACRONOYMS
Glossary of Terms
- Acid Plant
- A process that converts sulphur dioxide
released during processing into sulphuric acid.
- ARET
- Accelerated Reduction/Elimination of Toxic Substances.
- Baghouse
- An air pollution control device used to trap
particulate by filtering gas streams through large fabric bags, usually
made of glass fibres.
- By-product
- Material that is produced and sold during
the production of another material (or other materials) whose production
and sales form(s) the economic basis of the operation.
- Electrostatic Precipitator
- An air pollution control device that removes particulate matter by imparting
an electrical charge to particles in a gas stream for mechanical collection
on an electrode.
- Effluent
- A release into water.
- Emission
- A release into air.
- Emission Factor
- Quantity of emission relative
to the amount of material processed. Typically used to estimate the amount
of pollutant emitted.
- Environmental Management System
- Part of the overall management system that includes organizational
structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures,
processes and resources for developing, implementing, achieving, reviewing
and maintaining the environmental policy.
- Environmental Policy
- Statement by the organization of its intentions and principles in relation
to its overall environmental performance which provides a framework for
action and for the setting of its environmental objectives and targets.
- Fugitive Emissions
- Air pollutants that enter the atmosphere
without first passing through a stack or duct designed to direct or control
their flow.
- Greenhouse Gas
- A greenhouse gas absorbs and radiates
heat in the lower atmosphere that would otherwise would be lost to space.
Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxides (N2O).
- ISO 14001
- The International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) is an international federation of over 100 national standards bodies,
which has developed a series of integrated environmental management standards,
known as the ISO 14000 series.
- Loading
- The estimated weight or mass of
material carried by air or water flows. Often expressed over a defined
period of time or over the production rate.
- Particulate Matter
- Particulates are any finely divided
solid or liquid in the air or in an emission. Particulates include dust,
smoke fumes and mist.
- Pollution Prevention
- The use of processes, practices,
materials, products or energy that avoid or minimize the creation of
pollutants and waste, and reduce overall risk to human health or the
environment.
- Product Stewardship
- Making health, safety and environmental
protection an integral part of a product's life cycle-from design, manufacture,
marketing, sale, and distribution, to use, recycling and disposal.
- Release
- Discharge into the natural environment.
- Scrubber
- An air pollution control device that uses
a liquid spray to remove pollutants from a gas stream by absorption or
chemical reaction. Scrubbers also reduce the temperature of the gas stream.
- Sedimentation
- In wastewater treatment, the settling
out of solids by gravity.
- Sustainable Development
- Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising
the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (Canadian
Environmental Assessment Act).
- Target
- Detailed performance requirement, quantified
where possible.
- Virtual Elimination
- The ultimate reduction of the quantity
or concentration of the substance in the release below the level of quantification55.
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Acronyms
- As
- Arsenic
- BETAG
- Base Metals Smelter Environmental Technical Advisory Group
- BMSS
- Base Metals Smelting Sector
- CAEAL
- Canadian Association for Environmental Analytical Laboratories
- CCME
- Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
- Cd
- Cadmium
- CEM
- Continuous Emission Monitor
- CEPA
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act
- CWS
- Canada-Wide Standard
- EMAS
- Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
- EPI
- Environmental Performance Indicator
- ESP
- Electrostatic Precipitator
- Hg
- Mercury
- IT
- Issue Table
- IPPC
- Integrated Prevention and Pollution Control
- LMDL
- Laboratory Method Detection Limit
- MAC
- Mining Association of Canada
- MERS
- Multi-pollutant Emission Reduction Strategy
- MMER
- Metal Mining Effluent Regulation
- Ni
- Nickel
- NPRI
- National Pollutant Release Inventory
- Pb
- Lead
- PCBs
- Polychlorinated Biphenyls
- POI
- Point of Impingement
- PM
- Particulate Matter
- PM10
- Particulate Matter Less Than 10 Microns
- PM2.5
- Particulate Matter Less Than 2.5 Microns
- QA
- Quality Assurance
- QC
- Quality Control
- RMDL
- Regulatory Method Detection Limit
- SCC
- Standards Council of Canada
- SOR
- Strategic Options Report
- SOP
- Strategic Options Process
- SO2
- Sulphur Dioxide
- US EPA
- United States Environmental Protection Agency
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